Abstract

In a Collaborative Business Ecosystem, Performance Indicators are a useful mechanism to assess collaboration performance, inducing self-adjustment in organization’s profile, thereby improving the sustainability of the ecosystem. Using system dynamics and agent-based modelling, a simulation model is assembled to show organizations’ self-adjustment by improving their profile in response to an assessment through a chosen set of performance indicators, such as innovation indicator, contribution indicator and prestige indicator. The natural reaction of organizations (similar to individuals) towards improving their performance according to the way they are evaluated, is modelled considering different enterprise profiles categorized into various classes of responsiveness, to better simulate the diversity in a real collaborative business ecosystem. Preliminary results of this approach are presented and discussed.

Highlights

  • Business ecosystems are crossing a new era anchored in more interconnected and powerful digital platforms, following the dynamics and trends highlighted in [1]

  • The Collaborative Business Ecosystem (CBE) is modelled as an environment containing a set of agents representing the Organizations (Oi), which collaborate by creating Virtual Organizations (VOi) in response to market opportunities, designated as Collaboration Opportunities (CoOpi)

  • Collaboration can be assessed using the set of performance indicators such as those proposed in [6] and [7]: the Innovation Indicator (II), to evaluate the capability of the organizations to create new patents, services or products; the Contribution Indicator (CI), to evaluate the value generated by organizations, creating or accepting collaboration opportunities; and the Prestige Indicator (PI), to evaluate the prominence of a particular organization over others, to participate in collaboration opportunities

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Summary

Introduction

Business ecosystems are crossing a new era anchored in more interconnected and powerful digital platforms, following the dynamics and trends highlighted in [1]. The research area of Collaborative Networks (CN) [3], which has a wider scope, classifies a business ecosystem as a subclass of the CN taxonomy [4]. In order to emphasize the collaborative dimension, the term Collaborative Business Ecosystem (CBE) has been adopted [5], and a CBE was modelled as an environment of agents (representing the organizations), which collaborate to accomplish business opportunities [6]. In this work it is assumed that the assessment of the collaboration benefits of a CBE, using a set of Performance Indicators (PIs) such as the ones proposed in [6] and [7], influence the behaviour of the agents inducing some degree of self-adjustment of their profile, leading to an improvement of their individual performance and of the CBE as a whole, promoting its sustainability. The last section summarizes the contributions and identifies further research directions

Relationship to Innovation in Industry and Services
A Simulation Model to Evaluate the Collaboration of a CBE
The Contribution Indicator to Evaluate the CBE
Experimental Evaluation of the CBE
Conclusions and Further Work
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