Exploring the Process of Business Ecosystem Emergence from Value Chains: Insights from the Chinese Mobile Phone Industry

Shi，Xianwei1; Luo，Yuankun2; Hou，Hong3; Rong，Ke4; Shi，Yongjiang3

2021

10.1017/mor.2021.39

Management and Organization Review   影响因子和分区

1740-8776

1740-8784

A business ecosystem is a community of multiple co-evolving actors with interdependent product offerings organized around a specific value proposition. While the extant literature focuses on these two structural elements of ecosystems that existed ex ante, we challenge this notion with our core discovery that ecosystem actors emerge in an ex post dynamic process. With a longitudinal qualitative study of the vertically disintegrated part of the Chinese mobile phone industry, we develop a two-dimensional process model of ecosystem emergence, namely the temporal dimension that delineates three processal stages of ecosystem emergence and the spatial dimension that highlights an architectural pattern of reciprocities between value chain and resource pool to enable the ecosystem emergence. We also offer inter-temporal enabling conditions during ecosystem evolution. These findings enable us to complement the ecosystem literature by elaborating the antecedents, outcomes, and enabling conditions of ecosystem emergence in relation to multiple types of ecosystem actors. We also shed light on the value chain (re-)configuring process which derives from the reciprocity between value chains and ecosystem resources.

business ecosystem Chinese mobile phone industry ecosystem emergence ecosystem resources value chain

SSCI

英语

其他

National Natural Science Foundation of China[72102144,71872098,71834006] ; Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Ministry of Education of China[21YJC630114] ; Shanghai Pujiang Program[2020PJC074] ; Shanghai Chenguang Program[20CG17] ; Major Program of National Social Science Foundation["20ZD075","18ZDA149"] ; Major Research Projects of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education[17JZD018] ; Beijing Social Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars[21DTR051]

Business & Economics

Management

WOS:000769527500003

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS

2-s2.0-85116552226

Scopus

1.Shanghai Jiao Tong University,China
2.Southern University of Science and Technology,China
3.University of Cambridge,United Kingdom
4.Tsinghua University,China

Shi，Xianwei,Luo，Yuankun,Hou，Hong,et al. Exploring the Process of Business Ecosystem Emergence from Value Chains: Insights from the Chinese Mobile Phone Industry[J]. Management and Organization Review,2021,18(1).

Shi，Xianwei,Luo，Yuankun,Hou，Hong,Rong，Ke,&Shi，Yongjiang.(2021).Exploring the Process of Business Ecosystem Emergence from Value Chains: Insights from the Chinese Mobile Phone Industry.Management and Organization Review,18(1).

Shi，Xianwei,et al."Exploring the Process of Business Ecosystem Emergence from Value Chains: Insights from the Chinese Mobile Phone Industry".Management and Organization Review 18.1(2021).