A business view of networks

It goes without saying that graph theory plays a big role in EDA. While we take this for granted in engineering EDA solutions, the business world, EDA and otherwise, has not, for the most part, considered the firm as part of a network. However, especially in high technology, the network form of business organization is an integral part of the business model. This article discusses the network view of business in the EDA context with the following caveats: 1) The author introduces business models but not discusses them in detail; and 2) the underlying management theory on networks draws very little from the mathematics of graph or network theory