Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems (Advances in Strategic Management, 30) - Hardcover

Ron Adner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781908265 ISBN 13: 9781781908266

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2013

Synopsis

The research featured in this volume is devoted to understanding the competitive and collaborative challenges that firms face as they manage interactions with different actors in dynamic environments, in what are coming to be referred to as business or innovation 'ecosystems'. Rapid technological change, globalization, and recent financial turbulence have brought us to a point where managers are painfully aware that 'no man [or firm] is an island.' Success in business, in both the profit and non-profit sectors, increasingly relies upon collaboration with upstream suppliers, alliance partners, and downstream complementors. This volume presents new findings of how innovation and value are created in collaborative networks, specifically 'ecosystem analysis' and the unique roles of individual actors within this system.

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About the Author

Ron Adner - Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, USA
Joanne E. Oxley - University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Canada
Brian S. Silverman - University of Toronto, Canada

Review

The recent complex set of interactions between companies and industries can be viewed as a type of "ecosystem," given the dynamic environment and the diverse goals of each entity. This collection of twelve essays by contributors from the UK, the US, and Europe examine the "ecosystems" and the parties' participation in them, give analytical perspectives, and take an interdisciplinary look at linkages and antecedents. Their topics include collaborating with competitors, evolving an open ecosystem, building ecosystem support for global health innovations, setting an ecosystem's "clockspeed" perspective, figuring out how product architectures affect ecosystems, struggling with innovation, synchrony development, networking in Silicon Valley, marking the beginning and end of the port commodity chain, working towards a network perspective on organizational decline, and explaining the attacker's advantage. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (ProtoView.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781908265
• ISBN 13: 9781781908266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Ron Adner, Joanne E. Oxley, Brian S. Silverman