Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy. (January 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy. (January 2017)
- Main Title:
- Ecosystem as Structure
- Authors:
- Adner, Ron
- Abstract:
- Over the past 20 years, the term "ecosystem" has become pervasive in discussions of strategy, both scholarly and applied. Its rise has mirrored an increasing interest and concern among both researchers and managers with interdependence across organizations and activities. This article presents a structuralist approach to conceptualizing the ecosystem construct. It presents a clear definition of the ecosystem construct, a grammar for characterizing ecosystem structure, and a characterization of the distinctive aspects of ecosystem strategy. This approach offers an explicit examination of the relationship among ecosystems and a host of alternative constructs (business models, platforms, coopetition, multisided markets, networks, technology systems, supply chains, value networks) that helps characterize where the ecosystem construct adds, and does not add, insight for the strategy literature.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of management. Volume 43:Number 1(2017)
- Journal:
- Journal of management
- Issue:
- Volume 43:Number 1(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 43, Issue 1 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 43
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0043-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 39
- Page End:
- 58
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01
- Subjects:
- cooperative strategy -- macro topics -- industry evolution/structure -- innovation management -- technology strategy -- structure -- design & boundaries
Management -- Periodicals
658.005 - Journal URLs:
- http://jom.sagepub.com ↗
http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=10604 ↗
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01492063 ↗
http://online.sagepub.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0149206316678451 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0149-2063
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 5011.100000
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