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The nature of the cyber firm: contextual model of business for cyber world

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A contexting enterprise supplying the entire knowledge market in a planned and organized fashion where as currently information providers are considering themselves as producers of individual information products and each is trying to appeal to all the potential customers.
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In this paper we present a new business model, called contextual model of business and use it to provide a foundation to create a new category of enterprise. This model creates business value by converting the disparate data stream into meaningful context and serves its contextual customers. Our contribution is the idea of a contexting enterprise supplying the entire knowledge market in a planned and organized fashion where as currently information providers are considering themselves as producers of individual information products and each is trying to appeal to all the potential customers

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A dynamic cyber-based view of the firm

TL;DR: The Cyber-Based View (CBV) of the firm is developed, a multidimensional conceptualization of firm readiness for a cyberattack that fills a gap in the existing theory by incorporating physical, cognitive, and informational dimensions into a single framework.
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The Nature of the Cyber Firm-2006: Building An Affordance Architecture

TL;DR: This paper develops a contextual business model that creates business value by converting the disparate data stream into meaningful context and serves its contextual customers and exemplifies with an application that is currently in progress.
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The Nature of the Firm

Ronald H. Coase
- 01 Nov 1937 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that a definition of a firm may be obtained which is not only realistic in that it corresponds to what is meant by a firm in the real world, but is tractable by two of the most powerful instruments of economic analysis developed by Marshall, the idea of the margin and that of substitution.
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined the visible hand of the modern business enterprise and defined the traditional processes of production and distribution in the United States. But they did not define the management and growth of modern industrial enterprises.
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General Economic History

Max Weber
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the industrial enterprise for the provision of everyday wants, oriented toward profitability by means of rational capital accounting, as the institutional foundation of modern Western capitalism and show that this type of enterprise integrates into one institutional complex, including formally free labor, free market trade, appropriation of the physical means of production, rational commercial practices, rational production of technology, and calculable law adjudicated and administered by the state.