Institutionalizing Analytic Data Sharing in SME Ecosystems – A Role-Based Perspective

Abstract

There is a variety of reasons that sharing data among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) carries business potential, particularly for analyti-cal applications. But outside a few niche domains, the number of success stories for data sharing is rather modest. Based on a qualitative study and first experiences from a research project with pilot im-plementations, we argue that this is mainly due to a lack of an institutionalized governance structure: Founding a separate legal entity for data sharing and analysis can address core concerns regarding sharing valuable data assets. However, this requires a well-calibrated set of defined roles for the in-volved partners. Based on our results we propose a first concept on delineating and mapping out those roles.