Business Ecosystem Concept Research Articles

Формирование бренда экосистемы как элемент стратегического потенциала

The article discusses issues related to the definition of the strategic potential of the company and its formation at the current stage of development of market relations. The study of the main approaches to the definition of the concept of strategic potential of the company is carried out. Additions to the definition of the concept of strategic potential of the company based on existing realities are indicated. The issues related to the concept and development of business ecosystems are considered. The role of business ecosystems in the further development of business structures is determined. Various approaches to the formation of the concept of a business ecosystem are considered. An addition to the definition of the concept of a business ecosystem has been formed and the necessary arguments for the transition of business ecosystems to the formation of a common digital system are given. The analysis of the concept of the brand of the business ecosystem and the need for its formation as an element of the intellectual property of the business ecosystem is carried out. The inclusion of the ecosystem brand concept into the overall strategic potential of the organization is justified

Business ecosystem concept in supply chain management research

Business ecosystem concept in supply chain management research

Requirements for Domain-Specific Language in Enterprise Architecture-based SDGs Orchestration

Coherence is a crucial issue in orchestrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the society level. The various parties involved with different language standards further increase the complexity of communication. Enterprise Architecture (EA), which emphasizes consistency and coherence as the pillars of its concept, can be used to address coherence issues in the SDGs orchestration. This study aims to build a Requirements Framework for developing an architecture description language as a domain-specific language used for EA-based SDGs orchestration. To clarify the purpose of the research, a motivating scenario was built in the form of the SDGs Participation Platform (SDGs-PP). SDGs-PP becomes the context in which EA-based SDGs orchestration involves society-level actors (orchestrators) and enterprise-level actors (enterprise architects). This Requirement Framework is built using design science methodology as a part of ongoing research. The requirements consisting of context, concept, and collaboration domains and nine action requirements (elicit, separate, connect, classify, manifest, map, arrange, separate, and set up) were successfully formulated. The Context domain was developed from the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 standard. The Concept domain focuses on elaborating the SDGs means of implementation and the business ecosystem concept. The Collaboration domain discusses the separation in the model canvas between the enterprise and society domains. Apart from being used as a requirement framework for the meta-model development of an architecture description language, the results of this study can also be used further as a research framework in the domain of EA-based SDGs orchestration.

Digital Business Ecosystems: An Environment Of Collaboration, Innovation, And Value Creation In The Digital Age

This article delves into the concept of Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs), which have arisen due to the increasing interconnectedness of businesses and the growing reliance on digital technologies for value creation. DBEs are characterized by adaptability, scalability, and resilience, enabling businesses to collaborate, innovate, and adapt to changing market conditions. The article explores the components of DBEs, including actors, resources, and processes, and examines different DBE models, such as the hub-and-spoke, network, and layered models. Digital platforms play a critical role in DBEs, and effective platform design involves considering factors such as scalability, modularity, and openness. Various technologies, such as cloud computing, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, underpin the development and operation of DBEs, and integrating these technologies presents both opportunities and challenges for businesses. The article addresses key DBE business issues, such as alliances, network analysis, value co-creation, governance, legal issues, trust, risk, security, knowledge development, dissemination, and management. It also highlights the importance of DBE strategies, processes, and management for businesses to thrive and achieve sustainability in the digital landscape. Finally, the article suggests future research themes, such as exploring new models and frameworks, investigating factors contributing to DBE success or failure, identifying best practices, and examining the implications of emerging technologies on DBEs.

Перспективы и тенденции развития экосистем в РФ

The article presents a study devoted to a relatively new direction of the formation of cooperation of various forms of ownership in order to increase joint efficiency based on a synergetic effect. The interests of the participants of business ecosystems and the possibilities of their effective interaction to achieve a common goal are considered. The analysis of the definition of the business ecosystem concept is carried out and various approaches are considered. The factors that can influence the efficiency of the business ecosystem are considered. The potential of ecosystem formation is determined based on already available forecasts in the field of their formation and functioning efficiency. The relationship between the processes of ecosystem formation and its brand is determined. The transition from the company brand to the ecosystem brand is justified.

The Marketing Ecoverse: A Sustainable Confluence of Business, Social, and Natural Ecosystems

Rebounding off the denaturized concept of business ecosystem, we develop an initial conceptualization of the marketing ecoverse. The marketing ecoverse refers to the confluence of three equally important types of ecosystems: business, sociocultural, and [natural] biogeophysical. We argue that the marketing ecoverse is based on shared natural phenomena, ecosystem functions, and native/inter-ecosystem service and disservice flows. The marketing ecoverse's self-regulative processes include material-to-moral signaling, resilience moderation, source-sink constraints, and artifact dispersal. A case of the growth and partial collapse of fourth-generation bike-sharing systems and their impact on African rural communities is presented to further illustrate the marketing ecoverse processes.

DESIGN AND DYNAMICS OF BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF «INDUSTRY 4.0» CONCEPT

The development of technological cooperation alongside with customer value-creation value chain led to development of a business ecosystem concept. Originally developed for innovation industries this concept spread around many industries but has been keeping its focus on the innovation. The design of a business ecosystem is mostly defined by the structure of the technological cooperation and technological solutions which are core for customer value. Information and Communication Technologies served as a model for developing different designs of a business ecosystem, as high-tech industries pioneered the business ecosystem approach to build competitive advantages. But within other industries along with technological factors economic, financial, strategic factors also contribute to the shaping of the business ecosystem structure. The design of business ecosystems is crucial for their developments. As the concept “Industry 4.0” marks the fifth industrial revolution, many industries adopted strategies and approaches from innovative industries. Five distinctive designs of business ecosystems were distinguished, which differ on the core platform types, levels of cooperation, paths of development and distribution of competences.

A Maturity Model for Digital Business Ecosystems from an IT Perspective

Digital transformation impacts longstanding business models and enables enterprises to create new ones. This transformation leads to increased competition that forces enterprises to compete, not only between companies but also between the entire supply chain and business networks. The emerging concept of digital business ecosystems (DBE) allows enterprises to concentrate on network co-creation and co-evolution of bundled services and products across enterprise boundaries. This exploratory study introduces a maturity model derived from existing DBEs. Based on employing a design science methodology, we reviewed 22 scientific publications, interviewed 28 senior experts from practice and derived a maturity model from the results. We applied the maturity model through an online survey to 29 DBEs from different industry sectors and compared it with 22 maturity assessment approaches from other domains. The maturity model enables researchers to compare and assess existing DBEs and helps practitioners to identify areas for improvement in the collaboration within DBEs.

Business ecosystem concept in supply chain management research

Business ecosystem concept in supply chain management research

Trinks.com - plataforma digital a serviço da beleza

Abstract The case shows the dilemma faced by Marcel Gewerc, co-founder and CEO of Trinks.com, a company that offered a digital solution to facilitate the management of beauty salons and allow online booking of services. Faced with opportunities and threats from inside and outside the beauty industry, Marcel was evaluating alternatives to leverage his business. The case has been developed to stimulate discussions about envelopment mainly in Strategy disciplines in lato sensu and stricto sensu postgraduate courses in Business Administration, but it has also been tested with great success in undergraduate classes. It is expected that, at the end of the case discussion, students will be able to achieve the following learning objectives: (a) understand the platform business model (b) understand the exponential nature of digital platforms; (c) understand the business ecosystem concept; (d) understand the concept of adjacency of digital platforms; (e) understand envelopment strategies.

ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF INNOVATIVE STARTUPS AND BUSINESS PROJECTS AS A FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY IMAGE OF KAZAKHSTAN

Today, the development of the business environment in Kazakhstan has become one of the priorities. This article identifies the concept of business ecosystem and the factors that directly affect the development of its country image. A brief history of the formation of a new phenomenon, such as innovative startups and business projects. A strong and well-known national brand, beneficial to all stakeholders, including the private and public sectors, as well as to all government agencies, society and citizens. All these aspects play an important role in its creation and development. Everyone recognizes the need for a consistent approach and is ready to contribute to the development of national branding, but in fact, creating a functional model for its implementation is a difficult task. The article presents an analysis of studies on the role of startups and business projects in the development of the country's image and in the political economy. The article uses case studies that can be applied in the process of creating a positive image of the country.

Change of the Paradigm of Competition in the Age of Business Ecosystems

The article is devoted to the study of the issues of changing forms of competition in business in the 21 century. The authors explore different points of view about the concept of business ecosystems, originated in the 90s of the last century, which focuses on the consideration of competition not within individual organizations or even industries, but more broadly – in the environment as a whole. The development of network forms of organizations in the last century was accompanied by the transfer of free market conditions between participants in the value chain into the ecosystem (a community of participants working on the creation of product parts). This form of interaction leads to flexibility and adaptability due to the mobility of parts of the ecosystem, whose participants pursue the goal of joint value creation. Communities, unlike individual participants outside the ecosystem, are able to create integrated solutions for consumers, while maintaining high quality. With such network relationships, the relationships between competitors change, participants strive for co-evolution and increase the efficiency of the value chain. The ecological approach to competition is an actual and new trend in strategic management, which has a wide potential for study and implies consideration of competition with cooperation.

Understanding Business Ecosystems Using a Morphology of Value Systems

Overview: Business ecosystems have become a novel type of value system in all economic sectors. Many of the world’s largest and most valuable companies operate with business ecosystem approaches. The lack of a uniform understanding of business ecosystems’ features and characteristics make it difficult for decision makers in companies to develop and implement effective business ecosystem strategies. We created a morphology that describes all value systems and applied it to business ecosystems. We link business ecosystem characteristics to current interorganizational research and also help practitioners operationalize the concept of business ecosystems. Companies can use the managerial implications we provide to leverage ecosystems and co-create value.

Exploring the Dynamic of a Circular Ecosystem: A Case Study about Drivers and Barriers

The circular economy (CE) aims to minimize the environmental impact caused throughout the entire production chain, which can be achieved by implementing circular strategies in collaboration with different actors within a business ecosystem. Although the close relationship between CE and business ecosystem concepts, which originated the term “circular ecosystem”, research about this subject is necessary, given the scarcity of empirical studies addressing the phenomenon. Therefore, this study aims to contribute by investigating a Brazilian circular ecosystem specialized in the manufacture of ecological tiles through recycled carton packages. The exploratory case study method was selected to characterize the ecosystem and identify 27 drivers and 17 barriers that enhance and hinder the ecosystem’s existence and functioning. Our findings, summarized by a framework, demonstrate the need for integration among the ecosystem’s actors so that its value proposition can be delivered. This issue is crucial for collecting post-consumer packaging for recycling and manufacturing ecological tiles. However, actors within the circular ecosystem face some obstacles to collecting the amount of packaging post-consumer material, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, this work generates discussions and future studies on circular ecosystems, especially in the Brazilian context, where there is little evidence in this research field.

Meta-Organizations and Evolution of Corridor Governance. Study of the Dakar-Bamako Logistic-Port Axis

This paper deals with the importance of the implementation of meta-organi- zations on the governance of corridors with a particular case which is the Dakar-Bamako corridor. Firstly, the document deals with the notion of meta-organization and its consequences on the organization and on the evolution of the concept of corridor. And on this basis, justify how the meta- organization is the model that best adapts to the corridor compared to the concept of district and business ecosystem. To study this Dakar-Bamako corridor and its evolution towards a meta-organization, we conducted a qualitative study with the collection of primary data with the administration of 14 interview guides addressed to members representing the organizations, but also secondary data by using a bibliographical review and reports from ECOWAS and UEMOA, but also documents from bilateral cooperation between Senegal and Mali. The analysis of the results of an empirical study built on several stakeholders (regular actors and user actors) who are complementary in practice makes it possible, subsequently, to identify specificities in the issues that lead organizations to have to constitute themselves as a meta-organization. Commonalities are also emerging such as the increase in coordination functions and the establishment of simpler and more responsive organizational systems to facilitate governance in order to have effective and efficient transport execution throughout the corridor.

Innovation Resonances in The Development of Industrial Water Management Ecosystems

This article presents the scientific and practical issue of achieving innovation resonance in regional industrial ecosystems, including the identification of sources and factors contributing to it. The study of this issue is grounded on the approach based on the methodology of economic and innovation growth, systems paradigm and structural analysis, the support framework of innovation development of the region, as well as the main provisions of the concept of business ecosystems with regard to the high-tech sector. The key idea of the original concept of determining the sources and factors of achieving innovation resonance in subsystems of industrial ecosystems, one of which is defined in the article as hydroelectric power (in particular, the water management system of the region), is to obtain an innovation response in the external environment as an indicator of the expected effectiveness and efficiency of industrial innovation. The basic platform of model tools in the mechanism to achieve innovation resonance and innovation response in industrial and related ecosystems of the regional economy (including the water management system) is an interrelated set of principles and methods that characterize the rational symbiosis of industrial ecosystems and allow identifying the resource reserves for the implementation of local and global goals.

Addressing Conceptual Randomness in IoT-Driven Business Ecosystem Research.

During the almost 27 years of its existence, the business ecosystem research has developed a substantial level of ambiguity and multifacetedness. Because to the technological advancements that promote interconnectedness and value co-creation, the field has consequently spun off into more domain-specific branches, such as the arena of digital business ecosystems that are driven by Internet of Things (IoT). Nonetheless, despite the efforts to mend the theoretical foundations and to close the gap between academia and empirical practice, the absolute majority of IoT-driven digital business ecosystem literature follows the trend of conceptual randomness while expanding the volume of publications exponentially. Therefore, in order to address this unfavourable increase in random adoption of distinct concepts that ultimately refer to the same subject matter, the author encourages other scholars involved in the research field of IoT-driven digital business ecosystems to make extended efforts and support the external validity of their research (as well as the relevance of the research stream as a whole) by bounding the IoT-driven digital business ecosystems on a rigorous basis through deploying the extant theory in a careful and appropriate manner. Via a thorough examination of the theoretical fundaments that underpin the concept of IoT-driven digital business ecosystem, and based on a concise thematic review of corresponding literature published until September 2020, this article articulates logic for viewing the conceptual hierarchy within the business ecosystem research and proposes six literature-based recommendations for developing further IoT-driven digital business ecosystem (DBE) research in a rigorous way.

The Business Anticipatory Ecosystem outside the “First World”: Competitive Intelligence in South Africa

The purpose of this article is to extend the Competitive Intelligence (CI) business ecosystem concept and measurements, as developed by our previous work, to South Africa. The article is based on a pioneer study on the CI business ecosystem conducted outside North America and demonstrates how the concept and measurements are applicable in other countries.The business ecosystem view considers the state of CI both in terms of intelligence practice (by firms) and the support system that enables firm practice. For this study, measures from past studies and additional revised measures were used to examine firms’ CI practice as well as CI supporting systems within government, academia, and professional associations. Through multiple lines of research, the study noted that CI remains a practiced discipline in South Africa with evidence of the field having evolved within the country. While CI practices have grown in terms of some elements (for example, academic contribution), activities in other aspects of the ecosystem have declined such as association involvement, conferences, workshops, and training. Future research should be conducted to better understand the changes in these elements and their impact upon CI practice.

Management Model for Dairy Production Based on a Business Ecosystem Concept

This article proposes and evaluates a management model to boost the dairy production development from the perspective of a business ecosystem concept. This study proposes a management model based on two bibliographic systematic reviews of the dairy production. To analyze the resulting portfolio, the authors used a prior content analysis proposed by another researcher, which served as the basis for analysis and discussion of the elements for the model construction. Then, the model was tested with dairy experts. This research identified a total of 13 models which apply to dairy production and 2 models from the business ecosystem concept perspective. Consulting with 450 experts in the dairy sector, the authors empirically evaluated the model. The authors found that the results demonstrated an important validity indicator and model reliability in practice. Based on the finding, this article proposes a management model for dairy production from the business ecosystem concept.

Екосистема підтримки бізнесу в умовах пандемії COVID-19 в Україні та в окремих країнах ЄС

Pandemic in many regions of the planet has put the challenge to the economy and initiated the rapid changes in business and in everyday life. The growing uncertainty about the consequences of the pandemic for the economy forced the governments of the countries to quickly adapt and implement measures to support business, especially in those areas that were most affected - tourism, industry, HoReCa, etc. Most affected by the pandemic, the sector of small and medium-sized businesses has been forced to suspend activities in these conditions is extremely necessary state support. The article proposes to look at the issue of business support from the point of view of the concept of ecosystems. The article defines a business support ecosystem based on the concept of business ecosystems. The main groups and types of business support ecosystem have been identified. The state of the business support ecosystem before the implementation of restrictive measures (2019) and after (II-IV quarters of 2020) was considered. Describes the business support measures that were introduced in Ukraine after the active phase of the spread of COVID-19. Business support measures in individual EU countries are considered and their main provisions are described. The directions and types of business support in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary are considered and common and distinctive features with support in Ukraine are identified. Measures have been identified to strengthen the existing business support mechanisms in Ukraine in order to strengthen the role of the business support ecosystem in the country's restored economies by improving the tools based on the experience of the EU countries.