Our examination of participant types shows us that they all have one thing in common—they have a significant degrees of agency—they actively do things. Although systems and devices have a level of autonomy that is limited by their programming and algorithms, it is nonetheless helpful to think of them this way. And, the interactions between these relatively autonomous actors serves as a prompt to the next concept in a business network, namely assets. We'll see later that the entities that move between participants—assets—have none of this autonomy. These are subject to the forces placed upon them by participants. More on this later.