Year: 2020
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis provides a strategy framework as guidance for ecosystem linked firms to efficiently identify relevant ecosystems to engage with and influencing entities within them, access crossknowledge and evaluate merits of specific positioning within the ecosystems.Three ecosystem types are isolated from ecosystem related jargons in academic literature.Business Ecosystem (BE), Innovation Ecosystem (IE) and Digital Ecosystem (DE) were found to be the largely exclusive umbrella terms used.Using keywords analysis, topics that are exclusive or overlapping for these three ecosystem types are characterized into themes.Keyword network analysis revealed certain distinct larger or central domains which co-occur with others across the three ecosystems, as evidence of knowledge sharing across the ecosystem types.As firm strategy is found to be semantically represented as a BE topic with knowledge sharing from IE and DE, the next steps explore strategy insights from the lens of a firm as a BE actor.The merits of a firm's engagement in specific positions of selected ecosystems is assessed through insights from dynamics of ecosystems formation.For a breadth coverage, the contrasting case studies of the more centrally themed global electric vehicles (EV) and the distributed ecosystems emerging from the Internet of Things (IOT) paradigm are selected.Global deals network analysis is applied to both cases to reveal clusters of heightened activity and their respective hub firms.The EV hub firms leading competing ecosystems mostly in different geographies are found to be evolving from diverse businesses of the EV value chain such as manufacturers of batteries, vehicles, cables, motors, electromechanical braking, assembly production systems, power distribution systems and charging stations.In contrast, the IOT linked hub firms are found to be non-competing incumbents that include online retail, semiconductor manufacture, exclusive smart device manufacture, telecommunication services and satellite based monitoring services.Subsequently, the hub firms are profiled based on the rationale of their deals to derive deal intentions and strategies employed by them.The combined insights are collated and structured in a unified ecosystem firm strategy framework.In addition to guiding diverse product and services firms, the findings in this study offer directional basis to researchers, industrial associations, policy makers and other influencers.
Authors: Gupta, Ranjit, Gupta, Ranjit
Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7065806098