Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Networks in Auctions

The bi-annual Smart Business Networks discovery event, June 14-16, 2006 was again very successful. Executives and scientists discussed the latest on smart business networks. What are critical smart components? What type of applications? What are excellent network strategies? How to develop the business operating system?

Ulad Radkevitch, Otto Koppius and I presented research on ego-networks (suppliers that all the time come back to buyers in auctions). Our empirical analysis comes up with a typology of ego-networks in auctions: small buyers, transactional buyers, relational (small) buyers, relational (large) buyers, and diversifiers. Here is the paper.

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