Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy
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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...About:
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.read more
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Towards a Theory of Ecosystems
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Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems
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The lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach
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Dynamic and integrative capabilities for profiting from innovation in digital platform-based ecosystems
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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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