Abstract
A business ecosystem is a community that consists of various levels of interdependent firms which co-evolve in an ongoing cycle and constantly renew themselves. Through undertaking an in-depth, qualitative study of multinational companies in the mobile computing industry based in the Great China region, the UK and the USA, we explore the nature of the co-evolutionary process and its influence on complex product development. We find that this process consists of three domains of activity: co-vision, co-design, and co-create. We also find that each domain of activity plays a different but important role in stimulating collaborative innovation for complex product development in the mobile computing industry’s business ecosystem. We also discuss the implications for theory and future research directions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 809-842 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Group and Organization Management |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 6 Jul 2015 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2015 |
Keywords
- business ecosystem
- co-evolutionary process
- business community
- collaborative innovation
- mobile computing industry
- new product development