Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy
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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.
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The focal platform actor requires specific capabilities to form and orchestrate the surrounding ecosystem, enforces governance principles and fosters generativity, allowing complementors to undertake discrete actions to contribute to the platform's value proposition.
“Here the focal platform actor requires specific capabilities to form and orchestrate the surrounding ecosystem (Helfat & Raubitschek, 2018), enforces governance principles and fosters generativity, allowing the complementors to undertake discrete actions to contribute to the platforms' value proposition (Adner, 2017;Jacobides et al., 2018;Teece, 2018).”
From Digital platform ecosystems in flux: From proprietary digital platforms to wide-spanning ecosystems (2023) · cites this paper as Adner, 2017
After boundary resources have been created, complementors must be attracted to the platform to foster ecosystem generation.
“After boundary resources have been created, complementors must be attracted to the platform to foster ecosystem generation (Adner, 2017).”
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- Authors
- Adner, R.
- Affiliations
- Dartmouth College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Adner, Ron
- ORCID
- Adner, Ron
- Venue
- Journal of Management
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-11-24
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 39-58
- ISSN
- 0149-2063 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-1211
- OpenAlex
- W2551675031
- Cited by
- 2,600
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 557 · 2025: 407 · 2024: 341 · 2023: 258 · 2022: 270 · 2021: 306 · 2020: 215 · 2019: 140 · 2018: 73 · 2017: 32 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 195.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Management (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Platforms and Economics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Business Strategy and Innovation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Keywords
- ecosystem strategy, ecosystem structure, structuralist approach, business models, platforms, coopetition, multi-sided markets, value networks, supply chain, technical systems, networks
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