This domain provides the fundamentals of business ecosystems, and how they can be used to create business value for companies.
References
Books
Baldwin, Carliss Y. and Kim Clark (2000) Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity
Iansiti, Marco and Roy Levien (2004): The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability
James F. Moore (1996) The Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. New York. NY.
Brandenburger, Adam and Barry J. Nalebuff (1996) Co-Opetition : A Revolution Mindset That Combines Competition and Cooperation : The Game Theory Strategy That's Changing the Game of Business. ( Website: http://mayet.som.yale.edu/coopetition/index2.html )
Wynn, Donald. (2007). Assessing the Health of an Open Source Ecosystem. Chapter XI in: Stanelos, I., and Samoladas, I. (eds.). Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices Ecology and Dynamics of Open Source Communities IGI Global IGI Publishing.
Journal Articles
Adner, Ron (2006) Match Your Innovation Strategy to Your Innovation Ecosystem, Harvard Business Review, April, 98-107
Iansiti, Marco and R. Levien (2004) The Ecology of Strategy, Harvard Business Review, March 2004, 68-78.
Iansiti, M., Levien, R. (2004). Response to Strategy as Ecology. Harvard Business Review, September 2004, 132-133.
Iyer, Bala., Lee, Chi-Hyon., Venkatraman, N. 2006. Managing in a “Small World Ecosystem”: Lessons from the software sector. California Management Review. 48(3): 27-47.
Moore, James F. (2006) . Business Ecosystems and the View from the Firm, The Antitrust Bulletin, Vol 51, No. 1/Spring 2006
Moore, James F. (1993) Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition, Harvard Business Review, May/June 1993.
Moore, James F. (2002) Digital Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A Framework for Policy, Legal and Regulatory Action
Peltoniemi, Mirva (2006) Preliminary theoretical framework for the study of business ecosystems, Complexity & Organization, issue 1, 10-19.
Articles in Proceedings
Gueguen, G., E. Pellegrin-Boucher, and O. Torres (2006), Between Cooperation and Competition: The Benefits of Collective Strategies within Business Ecosystems: The Example of the Software Industry, EIASM 2nd Workshop on Coopetition Strategy, Milan, Italy, September 14-15.
Peltoniemi, Mirva (2004). Cluster, Value Network and Business Ecosystem: Knowledge and Innovation Approach. Proceedings of Organizations, Innovation and Complexity: New Perspectives on the Knowledge Economy, Manchester, UK.
Peltoniemi, Mirva and Elisa Vuori (2004). Business Ecosystem as the New Approach to Complex Adaptive Business Environments, Proceedings of eBusiness Research Forum
Working Papers
Gothlich, Stephan E. (2003) From Loosely Coupled Systems to Collaborative Business Ecosystems,”paper No. 573, University of Kiel (Germany), May.
Iansiti, Marco and Roy Levien (2004) Keystones and Dominators: Framing Operating and Technology Strategy in a Business Ecosystem. e-Business Research Centre. Research Reports 18
Peltoniemi, Mirva, Elisa Vuori, and Harri Laihonen (2005) Business ecosystem as a tool for the conceptualization of the external diversity of an organization. e Business Research Centre. Research Report.
The Emerging Promise of Business Ecosystems - Feb 2009 - The Open Source Business Resource by Peter Carbone
A Perspective on Partnering in Today’s ‘New World’ - Ottawa Technology & Venture Summit - Sept 2005 OVTS - Program
Web Papers
Iansiti, Marco and Roy Levien (2004) Strategy for small fish
Iansiti, Marco and Roy Levien (2004) Creating value in your business ecosystem
Directorate General Information Society and Media (2007), The Information Resource about the European Approach on Digital Business Ecosystems, European Commission.
Mauboussin, Michael J. (2005) The Ecosystem Edge
Nchira, F. (2002), Towards a Network of Digital Business Ecosystems Fostering the Local Development, European Commission DG INFSO.
Ryan, Declan (2006) Business Ecosystems - Transforming and Optimizing Organizational Resources. Elan White Paper.
Blogs
Bergman, M. K. Open Source and the Business Ecosystem (2005)
Slide Presentations
Gueguen, Gael (2005) The dynamics of the digital ecosystems, proprietary vs open source approach: The business ecosystem logic
Examples
Member Resources
LTW II - Ecosystems - Hurley
