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Evaluating and Influencing the Performance of a Collaborative Business Ecosystem – A Simulation Study

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Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0 (PRO-VE 2020)

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In a Collaborative Business Ecosystem, organisations collaborate to acquire and accomplish more innovative and challenging market opportunities. But the sustainability of collaboration requires continuous performance improvement. To this end, well-defined performance indicators can be used to both assess the collaboration level and act as an influence mechanism to induce an improvement in the collaborative behaviour of the participating organisations. By varying the importance (weight) of the adopted set of indicators, it is possible to study the variations in behaviour towards improvement, not only at organisations’ level but also at the level of the ecosystem as a whole. In order to assess this hypothesis, this paper contains a case study based on simulation and agent-based modelling whose behaviour is shaped according to actual data on collaboration collected from three companies in the area of the IT industry. Various scenarios are simulated and described.

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Acknowledgements

This work benefited from the ongoing research within the CoDIS (Collaborative Networks and Distributed Industrial Systems Group) which is part of both the Nova University of Lisbon (UNL) - Faculty of Sciences and Technology and the UNINOVA - CTS (Center of Technology and Systems). Partial support also comes from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through the program UIDB/00066/2020, and European Commission through the project DiGiFoF (Nr. 601089-EPP-1-2018-1-RO-EPPKA2-KA).

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    Paula Graça & Luís M. Camarinha-Matos

  2. Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro 1, 1959-007, Lisbon, Portugal

    Paula Graça

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Graça, P., Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (2020). Evaluating and Influencing the Performance of a Collaborative Business Ecosystem – A Simulation Study. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Ortiz, A. (eds) Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0. PRO-VE 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 598. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62412-5_1

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