Recommended Resources

[Former Member]

I'm putting together a reading list for a graduate course this semester and would like to include 1 or more readings related to this topic. For my particular need, these resources would need to be peer-reviewed journal articles or similar.

Can anyone recommend any resources?

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Tony

There aren't any really solid peer-reviewed articles that I'd recommend for grad students. The closest would be Gulati's CMR article "Shrinking Core, Expanding Periphery", which is Chapter 4 in the BNT book. The BNT book is the closest thing we could create that had rigorous academic research that was consumable by general managers/MBAs. The other stuff we looked at doing the background for the BNT book (most created by the chapter contributors) is way too academic to get the point across. So we had the experts distill their collective articles into more MBA focused content and add a bunch of narrative case studies to drive home the value. I actually envisioned the BNT book as the backbone of the type of class you're talking about.

N. Venkatraman and I are teaching an MBA course on Business Network Transformation next week at BU. We'll make the entire course materials availible as open courseware later in the semester, so that might help you out. We're using the BNT book as the main text and filling in with a lot of recent case studies.

If you really have to have peer-reviewed articles, look at Gulati, Venkatraman, Iansiti and Sawhney. They've got a plethora of top-tier articles, but their really good stuff is all for HBR, SMR, CMR.

Cheers

Jeff

[Former Member]

Hi

One resource we have been using with our ERP students has been the web cast of Geoff Moore's keynote at the Vienna Sapphire. It is about 50 minutes long. There is also another webcast at another Sapphire from Philip Lay.

The students find these resources worthwhile espededcially as an introduction to BNT and the role enterprise systems plays. These also act as lead in to a later outsourcing lecture.

Hope this helps

Paul Hawking

SAP Academic Program Director

Victoria University

Australia

[Former Member]

Thanks, Jeff, for the recommendation. I have your book (thanks to your generosity in sending it to me previously), and I plan to reference it in class. I have just a single class session to devote to this topic, and I'd hoped to find something the students could read to give them some background. I'll look over the article you referenced in more detail.