Many two-sided platforms (e.g., eBay, Google, iOS, Android, Twitter, Amazon) provide integration tools, such as modular interfaces, interactive development environments, application programming interfaces (APIs), and help desks to reduce the costs and improve the functionality of third party...

The current study examines the impact of GVCs on the performance of SMEs in Uva and central provinces of Sri Lanka while recognizing potential local business sectors that can be linked with GVCs. Apart from that, key challenges and main success factors in relation to linking SMEs with GVCs are...

Research and development (R&D) activities are fundamental drivers of value creation in today’s technology-based Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs). Seemingly, a successful R&D is a task of innovation processes and development of R&D networks with allied companies. There is a perceived lack of...

Digital Twins in the Industry: Maturity, Functions, Effects -- Architecting Digital Twin-Driven Transformation in the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sector -- Practical Application of the Concept of Digital Twins in the Aviation Sector -- Digital Revolution in the Energy Sector: Effects of...

This paper focuses on analyzing the cash supply network, in which the central bank - as an institutional member - acts as a key influencing node/party. By analyzing the case study example of the Hungarian cash supply, the paper introduces the different kinds of special network patterns that can...

This article develops a relational practice perspective on the strategic formation of project networks as organizational forms, based on structuration theory and an in-depth case study of a European researcher and his project network. Project networks are defined as strategically coordinated...

We analyze the impact of (alliance) network exposure on the speed and extent of adoption of the business model as being one explanatory factor for diffusion controlling for actor specific characteristics and embeddedness in the network. In order to explain how existing national regulation...

Project networks have been identified as dynamic, yet relatively stable organizational forms in project-based creative industries. They materialize in longer-term actor relationships which are actualized by and institutionalized through particular projects. This article examines how project...