Conceptualising Capabilities and Value Co-Creation in a Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE): A Systematic Literature Review

Chekfoung Tan,Binita Ghale,Sunil Dhakal

doi:10.29333/jisem/7826

Abstract

Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) is a topical concept for business organisations to collaborate in driving product or service innovation. DBE is supported by digital technologies which aim to create and co-create values among the participated business organisations. For achieving successful collaboration, business organisations need to understand their capabilities that lead to value creation. This approach is vital for a business organisation to benefit from the values co-created when collaborating with others. Failing to do so will cause inefficient collaboration. However, there is a lack of capability and value co-creation studies in the DBE context. Therefore, this paper aims to conceptualise capabilities and value co-creation through a systematic literature review. We analysed the findings by thematic analysis. The review results produced a set of research themes surrounding the capability and value co-creation concepts. The research themes contribute to informing future avenues in digital business ecosystem research.

Highlights

Sir Arthur Tansley first articulated the terminology ecosystem as “abiotic community or assemblage and its associated physical environment in a specific place” (Pickett & Cadenasso, 2002)
Capabilities and value co-creation studies are imperative for generating successful collaborations in a digital business ecosystem (DBE)
We addressed the gap of lack of research in these two aspects by conducting the systematic literature review

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Sir Arthur Tansley first articulated the terminology ecosystem as “abiotic community or assemblage and its associated physical environment in a specific place” (Pickett & Cadenasso, 2002) He emphasised abiotic and biotic components as complexes in an ecosystem, and a nested structure is required to manage the interaction between the two components. DBE enables business organisations to work together for meeting customers’ rising expectation, as well as create or co-create values (Accenture, 2015; DigitalMckinsey, 2018) These business organisations work cooperatively and competitively for producing new products or services in a self-organised and self-evolved manner by using technology (Barua, Kriebel, & Mukhopadhyay, 1995; Dini et al, 2005; Melville, Kraemer, & Gurbaxani, 2004; Nachira et al, 2007)

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