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Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy

Ron Adner
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
- Vol. 43, Iss: 1, pp 39-58
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In the past 20 years, the term "ecosystem" has become pervasive in discussions of strategy, both scholarly and applied as mentioned in this paper, and its rise has mirrored an increasing interest and concern among both researc...
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This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1046 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Technology strategy & Innovation management.

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Towards a Theory of Ecosystems

TL;DR: It is argued that modularity enables ecosystem emergence as it allows a set of distinct yet interdependent organizations to coordinate without full hierarchical fiat, and at the core of ecosystems lie nongeneric complementarities, and the creation of sets of roles that face similar rules.
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Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems

TL;DR: A review of the book "Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems" by W.R. Scott is given in this paper, where the authors present a review of their work.
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The lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline contributions to the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach and conclude with a promising new line of research to our understanding of the emergence, growth, and context of start-ups that have achieved great impact by developing new platforms.
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Dynamic and integrative capabilities for profiting from innovation in digital platform-based ecosystems

TL;DR: It is proposed that three types of dynamic capabilities at a minimum are critical for platform leaders: innovation capabilities, environmental scanning and sensing capabilities, and integrative capabilities for ecosystem orchestration.
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Digital servitization business models in ecosystems : A theory of the firm

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the discussion of digital servitization business models by adopting the perspective of the theory of the firm (i.e., industrial organization, the reso... ).
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