TY - JOUR T1 - Defining Good Deals in Business Collectives JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2011 A1 - Michael Ayukawa AB - In the context of a current project at Carleton University to create creating a deal-making platform, this article presents the results of a recent review of the literature to determine: What is a good deal? This is question is asked from the perspective of the stakeholders in the development of a software-based collaboration tool that is designed to help streamline deal development between members. The stakeholders include the creators, the users, and the investors. We answer this question by examining several streams in the literature, all centered on understanding deals and deal-making processes. These streams explore the concept of a win-win deal, how value may be seen differently, and the group processes involved in deal making. A key contribution from this review suggests that deal goodness can be separated based on a Me-We construct: the impact to each and every stakeholder of the deal and the impact to the entire collective (not just the deal stakeholders). This implies one can separate the platform management problem into actor-centric (Me) and linkage-centric (We) domains. This is consistent with the notion of players balancing their self interest with the other stakeholders in the deal (Me-We). This is also consistent with the prospect of managing ecosystem health based on player and network-based metrics. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/434 IS - April 2011 U1 - Cornerportal Michael Ayukawa is a Master's student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University and plays an active in several emerging business ecosystem projects, including co-founding Cornerportal Inc., a company that will help bring economic opportunity to more individuals in more communities worldwide. ER -