Value Drivers in e-Business 2.0: How Web 2.0 is changing the Landscape of e-Business: introduction

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Starting....

Dear Readers,

this weblog's goal is to give people more insight in the value and value drivers of Web 2.0
At this moment I am writing my master thesis of the master Entrepreneurship and New Business Venturing at RSM Erasmus University in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). The subject of this thesis will be about e-business models, value drivers and Web 2.0. Two papers that will be very important are:

Amit and Zott (2001): Value Drivers in e-Business

O'Reilly (2005): What is Web 2.0, Design Patterns and Business Models for the next Generation of Software

During the next months I will keep you posted about my developments and interesting news and papers. Of course I am very interested in feedback, comments and advice!

Web 2.0

With Web 2.0 new features of the Internet transactions and participations are taking place. More and different stakeholders add value in e-business. This raises questions which (new) value drivers we can find in Web 2.0 and which ones are more important. By looking at these factors we are indirectly looking at the business models that are important in the New Internet. Providing more insight in value drivers and business models in Web 2.0 enables companies and entrepreneurs to adopt and prepare to take advantage of opportunities in this next stage of the Internet.