Diederik W van Liere

• Phd
• Wealthsimple

The ongoing evolution of interorganizational information systems (IOS) into industry-wide systems (IIOS) or digital ecosystem platforms raises new questions for researchers and practitioners alike, in particular the question of how organizations can gain advantage of these new ecosystems by orchestrating their business network. In an empirical stud...

In this paper, I present evidence on the geographic diffusion patterns of information of Twitter users. I identify three possible information diffusion patterns: random, local and information brokerage and show that the information brokerage pattern describes best how users of Twitter diffuse information through the act of retweeting.

A central tenet of the open source software development methodology is that the community of users and developers is instrumental in improving the quality of software. I conceptualize open source communities as information repositories to understand how community members help in improving software quality. The information repository contains the ac...

A central tenet of the open source software development methodology is that the community of users and developers is instrumental in improving the quality of software. Using a 10-year longitudinal dataset from the Fire fox community, I investigate how the size of a community in terms of bug reporters and software developers, the social networks of...

Business networks are multi-level value flow systems and in Smart Business Networks (SBNs) the value flows can be orchestrated by a central actor. This paper integrates recent thinking from the domains of ecological systems management, ecological economics and information dynamics to explain how smartness in network design is a direct enabler of ne...

These years, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME's) are facing management challenges related to secure competitiveness in global production networks and smart business networks. Specialized sub-suppliers are able to compete in a global market, e.g. due to high quality and reliability. However, research also indicates that SMEs when compared wit...

The globalisation of markets has led to an increased demand for language translation services that support and enable all forms of communication between economic partners operating in an international environment. For example, technical documents, software systems, business documents and web sites all need to be translated into multiple languages f...

The last few years have seen the rise of a new breed of interorganizational systems, built around web services and business process standards that allows for new and efficient ways of cooperation with new business partners in the network. This quick-connect capability in turn may affect how organizations in a business network structure their own ne...

This paper examines the role of an Electronic Intermediary (EIM) in coordinating business processes in a Smart Business Network (SBN). A conceptual model is presented that links EIM business model, EIM evolutionary context, and EIM service scope to business performance, and generates insight into the coordination role of the EIM. The model is illus...

We present the design of a service oriented architecture which facilitates flexible managerial decision making in dynamic business networks. We have implemented and tested this architecture in the MinneTAC trading agent, which is designed to compete in the Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (Collins et al., 1998). Our design enables managers to...

The current business environment is undergoing a dramatic change, increasingly being characterized by competition from a variety of players, emergence of a multitude of delivery channels and demand for more flexibility and agility leading to an increasing demand for innovation, flexibility and shorter time-to-market for new products/services. This...

The network rather than the individual firm is becoming the focal point of economic development and business success. What should executives and managers do particularly well, or different, to thrive in the networked world? Based on the Discovery Event “The Networked Experience”, Beijing 18–23 May 2008, hosted by Tsinghua University (see www.sbniwe...

In this paper, we address how business value is produced in networked economic systems with a focus on representation and analysis of the transfer of value between enterprises through resources. These enterprises, termed service units, “[provide] a resource for the benefit of another”, following the Service Dominant Logic of Vargo and Lusch (2004,...

Why are Chinese private entrepreneurs able to develop innovations in China's transitional economy? This chapter tries to answer this question through a detailed comparative case study of 45 software enterprises in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Combining resourse-based and institutional perspectives we argue that Chinese private enterprises in Hangzh...

Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or 'smart' results. These Smart Business Networks (SBNs) enable individual organizations to compete more effectively and to respond better to a changing world. This idea attracted a diverse group of academic scholars and business profession...

In this chapter, we review three different theories that can inform how researchers determine the performance of smart business networks, to include: (1) the Theory of Evolution, (2) the Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm, and (3) research insights into computers and cognition. We suggest that each of these theories demonstrate that to be perceived...

In this paper I propose the concept of Orchestrating Smart Business Networks (SBN) as a process of dynamic equilibrium between centripetal and centrifugal forces defining network boundaries and exploring its implications on controlling spheres of action and architectures of participation. I explore this proposition in the implementation of Business...

In February 2008 a group of Lehigh University faculty and graduate and undergraduate students, led by Roger Nagel and drawn from all four of Lehigh's Colleges, launched a study of how organizations could derive value from communities analogous to those mobilized by popular social networking and virtual environment applications, and how those organi...

We propose an information-based view of the dynamics of network positions and use it to explain why bridging positions become stronger. We depart from previous network dynamics studies that implicitly assume that firms have homogenous information about the network structure. Using network experiments with both students and managers, we vary a firm'...

Recognizing advantageous network positions is key for firms to obtain and sustain competitive advantage. Exploiting these opportunities requires that firms have information about the network structure. We introduce a construct called network horizon to capture this information. We demonstrate, using a computational model of network dynamics, that a...

This study examines the possibility that hybrid network positions that balance a firm's access to structural holes (Burt, 1992) and dense interconnections (Coleman, 1988) may outperform positions emphasizing one or the other alone. To do this, we estimate models of U.K. investment bank performance that consider a bank's own and its partners' balanc...

This paper introduces a multi-player simulation game to let players experience how the trend of mass customization and product personalization changes stable business networks into dynamic networks. The game, called Business Networking Game, simulates the changing dynamics of business networks and stimulates the players' thinking on whether and how...

Two new developments confront the Dutch insurance industry. First, there is the introduction of quick connect technologies which enable firms to efficiently integrate business processes across organisational boundaries. Second, there is a move towards more modular product architectures. These new technologies create uncertainty, especially regardin...

Information and communication technology enables a firm to maintain more links with more companies at much lower costs than before. This combined with the increasingly standardization of business processes and the application of modularity at the process level leads to embedded coordination. This case study describes how three unconnected business...

The organizational capabilities to interact with others have been greatly improved as a result of modern information and communications technologies: Nowadays a company can maintain more relationships with more companies at much lower costs than before. What impact does this increased interaction capability have on the company's choice to perform t...

Diederik van Liere was born in Kortenhoef, the Netherlands, on February 18, 1978. He attended Herman Jordan Lyceum in Zeist, from which he received his Atheneum diploma in 1996. After high school, Diederik went on to study Business Administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 1997, he founded his own Internet design compa...