Coordination in Service Value Networks [Elektronische Ressource] : A Mechanism Design Approach / Benjamin Sebastian Blau. Betreuer: C. Weinhardt

CoordinationinServiceValueNetworksAMechanismDesignApproachZurErlangungdesakademischenGradeseinesDoktorsderWirtschaftswissenschaften(Dr.rer.pol.)vonderFakultätfürWirtschaftswissenschaftenderUniversitätKarlsruhe(TH)genehmigteDissertationvonDipl.-Inform.WirtBenjaminSebastianBlauTagdermündlichenPrüfung: 31.07.2009Referent: Prof. Dr. ChristofWeinhardtKoreferent: Prof. Dr. RudiStuderPrüfer: Prof. Dr. OliverStein2009KarlsruheiiAbstractThefundamentalparadigmshiftfromtraditionalvaluechainstoagileservicevaluenetworks (SVN) implies new economic and organizational challenges. In servicevalue networks, a multitude of participants co-create complex services that cre-ate added value for customers by providing highly specialized service compo-nents and by leveraging lightweight paradigms such as RESTful architectures andmashup technologies. Addressing the challenge of coordinating distributed activi-ties in order to achieve a desired outcome, auctions have proven to perform quitewellinsituations whereintangibleandheterogeneous economic entities aretraded[Smi89,LR00].Nevertheless, traditional approaches in the area of multidimensional combina-torial auctions [BK05, Sch07] are not quite suitable to enable the trade of compos-ite services.