Title:	MULTIDIMENCIAL FRAMEWORK FOR CROSSCORPORATE BUSINESS SOCIAL NETWORK (BSN)
Author(s):	Nikolay Sterev, Valentin Kisimov, Tsvetana Stoyanova and Venko Andonov
ISBN:	978-989-8533-74-6
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell
Year:	2018
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Sharing corporation, Business Social Network (BSN), B2B, Cross- Corporate BSN, Economic and Social Business Impacts
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	169
Last Page:	176
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The new millennia economy is defined as “sharing economy” and covers variety of economic sectors where the re-circulation of goods and exchange of services is done. The sharing economy uses digital platforms in order the re-circulation to be organized. Nevertheless, the focus of the sharing economy is placed on the individuals. But they are also playing different roles in variety of business organizations. So, there is an uncovered field when individuals participate in sharing economy as business’ role players. The paper focuses on identifying and analysis of elements of the framework that explain the social interaction between two corporations. The preliminary hypothesis is that any corporation has established its own business social network (BSN) and has organized data transfer among the corporate participants of the BSN, but different staff members of this BSN interact with other corporation members as a part of the industrial and business chains of the economy. Thus, the paper uses to define three layers of the corporate BSNs as: BSN, economic impacts of BSN; social impacts of BSN. 1.) Business Social Network (BSN) is similar to Traditional Social Network (TSN), but works only inside a single corporation and, where the focus of BSN is on the corporate needs and especially on functioning on specific corporate entities like HR division, Big solution crafting, etc. Core of the BSN is the cooperation, project specific teaming, and business and solution generation discussions inside in a corporate division from one side or between particular divisions from the other. 2.) Economic and social impacts express these elements of quantitative and qualitative indices of the business goals that are based on the function of the BSN. These indices are very important for the functioning of the contemporary sharing corporation and they could be neglected in the traditional corporations as: time saving; information partaking; social group participation and etc. The structure of the paper covers the next 5 elements: Introduction: the definitions of the sharing economy and digital platform’s solutions are given. Specific technical solutions are also proposed making technology differentiation between BSN and TSN. 1. Framework of BSN: the explanation of the 3 core layers of BSN is proposed. A set of the economic and social impacts of BSN is also presented. 2. B2B BSN logical protocol: this protocol works with business objects, which are elements of partners’ BSN, supporting the social data exchanges between BSN and helping in better cross-business cooperation. Security policy are used as constraints for the protocol communications, which policy can be dynamically implemented into appropriate Firewalls and routers inside each of the corporate-partner infrastructure. Technical solution for those business objects and their integration in BSN are proposed. 3. B2B Economic and Social BSN protocols: these protocols are elements of the interaction of the partners BSNs and they are specific in digital era. Although these protocols are part of the traditional cross-business cooperation, they need to be redefined according to enlarged cross- corporate data exchange and the restrictions of the corporate security policy. Business and social solutions for these business objects and their integration in BSN are proposed. Conclusions: the main results of the research are summarized. Some limitations of the practical implication of the cross- corporate BSNs are also discussed.
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