Business Modelling

by Whinston, Andrew B.; Holsapple, Clyde; Jacob, Varghese; Rao, H. Raghav; Chaudhury, Abhijit

• ISBN13: 9780792375555
• ISBN10: 0792375556
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow the extraction of critical value from business processes and specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate, and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations. Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics, Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part (chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xxv
W. W. Cooper
Acknowledgements	xxix
PART I BUSINESS MODELLING FUNDAMENTALS
Introduction: Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches	3	(8)
Clyde Holsapple
Varghese Jacob
H. Raghav Rao
Abhijit Chaudhury
Manish Agrawal
Gleanings into the Second Best Debate	11	(14)
William A. Hamlen Jr.
Transfer Pricing: From Price Guidelines To Strategic Interaction	25	(18)
Vicente Salas-Fumas
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda
Trading Mechanism Design for Swap Markets	43	(12)
Ming Fan
Xiaorui Hu
Han Zhang
Production Capacity for Durable Goods	55	(22)
R. Preston McAfee
Cost-Sharing For Pollution Abatement	77	(30)
Edna T. Loehman
Rabih Karaky
A Study on Coefficient Reduction of Binary Knapsack Inequalities	107	(20)
Gary J. Koehler
Qualitative Reasoning: Theory and Applications	127	(28)
Aimo Hinkkanen
Karl R. Lang
An Architecture for Knowledge Management Featuring Metaknowledge	155	(14)
Roger Alan Pick
George P. Schell
PART II MODELLING IN ELECTRONIC BUSINESS
Multi Agent Enterprise Modeling	169	(18)
Riyaz Sikora
Michael J. Shaw
Designing IT-Supported Market Mechanisms for Organizational Coordination	187	(18)
Sulin Ba
Jan Stallaert
Congestion Based Pricing and Management of Distributed Computational Resources	205	(30)
Alok Gupta
Boris Jukic
Prabhudev Konana
Pricing Virtual Private Networks - An Economic, Engineering and Experimental Approach	235	(26)
Zhangxi Lin
Peng SI OW
Dale O. Stahl
Knowledge Representation: A Classification with Applications in Telecommunications and the Web	261	(32)
Prudence T. Zacarias Kapauan
Eugenia Fernandez
Quasi-naturally Occurring Experiments With Electronic Markets and Digital Products	293	(16)
Anitesh Barua
Ramnath K. Chellappa
Finding the Right Products and Devising Marketing Strategies for E-Tailing	309	(10)
Melody Kiang
Robert T. Chi
Kar Yan Tam
To Surf Or To Ride	319	(20)
Beomsoo Kim
Byungtae Lee
Organizational And Economic Mechanisms For Buyer-Supplier Contracts	339	(28)
Seung Kyoon Shin
R. Ramesh
H. Raghav Rao
The Intelligent Internal Accounting Control Model Under E-Business Environment	367	(22)
Kyeong Seok Han
James H. Gerlach
Internet Diffusion In Developing Countries:	389	(14)
Amitava Dutta
Rahul Roy
PART III MULTIDISCIPLINARY BUSINESS MODELLING PROGRESS
Advances In Business Problem Solving: Bridging Business And Computing Disciplines	403	(48)
Clyde W. Holsapple
The Intellectual Contribution Of Professor Andrew B. Whinston To The Field Of Information Systems In The Past Two Decades	451	(16)
Hsiangchu Lai
Yen-Ching Ou Yang
Ting-Peng Liang
IT Reference Disciplines - Andy Whinston, A Case Study	467	(16)
James R. Marsden
David E. Pingry
Index	483