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In recent years, we have seen increasing interest in new service concepts that take advantage of the capabilities of business ecosystems instead of single companies. In this article, we describe how a business ecosystem begins to develop around a service business idea proposed by an entrepreneur. We aim to recognize the different domains of players...
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... (1993; tinyurl.com/cygzy6o) describes a business ecosystem as consisting of layers (Figure 1), which cor- respond to differing levels of commitment to the busi- ness. The core business layer consists of the parties forming the heart of the business. ...
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... this case study, based on previous literature and on workshops where the business model was discussed, we added the actual names of the potential players to Figures 1 and 2. Currently, the challenge in boosting the growth of the ecosystem is how to recognize who are the next actors or areas that should be contacted and in- volved in collaboration. ...
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The subject of this thesis is the historical process of Turkish entrepreneurship ecosystem between 2001-2020 within the framework of regional dynamics. The study focuses on the evaluation of regional dynamics within the context of the culture and local context of the Istanbul entrepreneurship ecosystem region. The aim of the thesis is to reveal the regional dynamics as in the entrepreneurship ecosystems in the world and that entrepreneurship is an ecosystem issue by not leaving the local context. At the same time, it is among the aims of the thesis that ecosystems can be different at the regional level and the necessity of creating road maps in line with these differences. The study was carried out with the qualitative research method. The research was conducted with the case study design of the qualitative research method. In the research, in-depth interviews were conducted with 42 people from different components of the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Interview records were analyzed with the MAXQDA 2022 program. As a result of this thesis, the dynamics of the Istanbul entrepreneurship ecosystem region, the cultural and the impact levels between the stakeholders were revealed.
... Similarly to the natural ecosystem, each participant influences others and is affected by others, therefore, have to adapt and evolve in order to survive. Every participant linked by activities aimed at acquiring data and building knowledge resources, as well as the possibility of conducting tests and experiments (Heikkilä & Kuivaniemi, 2012). Within ecosystems, conditions are set up for the initiation of startups and the collaboration with existing brands. ...
Theoretical background: The worldwide fashion business has confronted the demand to transit from a linear to a circular business model, that involves a series of fundamental alterations to the hitherto highly efficient strategies. As a consequence, a conceptual issue concerning fashion brand value creation has emerged. This applies notably to luxury, premium and fast fashion brands. Satisfying the expectations of customers and stakeholders should cease to be simply a matter of manufacturing a varied and impressive product line, since it has to be both sustainable and sensitive to the emergent requirements of the natural and social environment. Along with the aforementioned challeanges, the key messages conveyed by brands through the marketing communication are also undergoing a transformation.
Purpose of the article: To present the perspectives on building fashion brand equity in a circular economy, including risks and opportunities.
Research methods: A review of scientific and specialised studies, selected using specific keywords, was undertaken. Data sources included academic resources: books, articles, market data (e.g. McKinsey & Company) and statistics published on the Statista platform, as well as specialised resources: expert articles, reports from organisations approaching the issue under research (e.g. EU, UN, Fashion Revolution, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, etc.). The search area was composed of electronic resources: licensed, open access websites and topic-related websites. The aim of the data analysis was to systematise background knowledge through an inductive method.
Main findings: 1. The fashion business needs a change of mission, vision and strategy along with cooperation and coopetition among brands of the luxury goods, mass goods and organic MSMEs markets within its ecosystems in order to achieve the expected brand value. 2. The implementation of circular economy model in the fashion business implies the necessity to restrict overproduction and overconsumption of clothes and accessories at the same time as utilising sustainable raw materials and production technologies. Furthermore, it requires the dissemination of the slow fashion model, which incorporates the reuse of clothes by other users (rental of clothes, second hand, upcycling). 3.Change of consumer behaviour, popularisation of research findings and expertise from independent organizations is a factor stimulating fashion brands to act towards a circular economy in order to maintain high brand value.
... Business ecosystem tiers. Source: Moore, J.F., Heikkilä, M.; Kuivaniemi, L., based on [9,15]. ...
... However, some concepts identify features characteristic for all business ecosystems. Therefore, typical features of the business ecosystem are [3,4,9,15,17,18]: According to Wilczyński [19], the theory of complexity that concentrates on the interaction between elements comprising a single system [20] is particularly suitable for describing phenomena in a business ecosystem. The business ecosystem supports phenomena typical of a complex adaptive system. ...
Rapid technological changes have forced postal operators to adapt their services to the needs of the information society, exploit new business opportunities, and pay more attention to emerging and rapidly growing direct and indirect competition. The main goal of the article is to provide an answer to the question Do we have to digitalize postal services? The objectives of the article are as follows: defining of the postal ecosystem concept; defining of postal e-services; developing an action proposal approach for the operator designated to create a digital ecosystem of the postal service. Therefore, it is necessary to survey postal operators regarding the digitalization of the economy and postal e-services. The survey should focus on individual customers, businesses and telecommunications market experts. The survey covered postal e-services supplied by the designated operator in Poland. Its assessment has been based on variables which have major impact on the perception of postal e-services. These variables include: scope of e-services, regulatory framework (security), competitiveness, telecommunications infrastructure, advancement of e-services, innovation level, and digital awareness and digital skills in the society. In order to meet these objectives, the article refers to the essence of the ecosystem as a solution to the research problem. Additionally, studies on postal e-services have been presented, which enable to develop an action proposal to strengthen the position of the postal operator in the postal ecosystem. The article is based on studies that use various research methods, such as critical analysis of scientific literature, synthesis and generalization, Delphi method, versatile benchmarking and graphic visualization. Additionally, findings of studies on e-services have been presented to cover the European Union, as well as solicit opinions of individual and business clients and telecommunications market experts in Poland. This enables to develop an action proposal designed to strengthen the position of the postal operator in the postal ecosystem. The study has delivered an answer to the research question. Thus, the authors can confirm that it is necessary to digitalize postal services.
... Illustrating the roles and relations of the actors, Figure 3 pictures the main developer in the role of a keystone player while the partnering companies in its closest network form the enlarged business (see Heikkilä andKuivaniemi, 2012 andMoore, 1993). ...
... Illustrating the roles and relations of the actors, Figure 3 pictures the main developer in the role of a keystone player while the partnering companies in its closest network form the enlarged business (see Heikkilä andKuivaniemi, 2012 andMoore, 1993). ...
... Similarly, our results show that familiarity between project participants creates trust, leading to better understanding of the working habits of other participants, thus decreasing the need for formal task coordination (Pulkka et al., 2016). Further, the results indicated how the project-based J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f business ecosystem evolves over various phases as presented in Figure 4, i.e. participant involvement differs in the living and use phase when compared to the design and construction pahse, and each phase can have its specific individual goals (see also Heikkilä andKuivaniemi, 2012, Lappi et al., 2017). The key message from a managerial perspective is that the developer and main contractor need to adopt a strong leadership role over the business ecosystem, and that feedback is needed for the ecosystem to function efficiently and for learning to take place. ...
Lowering environmental impacts by material choices is proposed as a way to promote urban sustainability transition, and one solution is building more wooden multi-storey constructions (WMCs). In the construction industry, however, there is a strong path dependency towards applying well-established construction materials and methods, as well as partnerships. To gain understanding of network-based collaboration, learning and end-user involvement in novel wooden construction business, the study uses qualitative methods and employs business ecosystem approach in the analysis. The studied WMC business case revealed that barriers of collaborative business ecosystem development include both the lack of clarity in the shared goals between actors and weak end-user involvement. Moreover, neither companies nor end-users fully recognize sustainability aspects around WMC. Enabling factors such as smooth communication and building trust among business actors during planning and building were recognised. The study suggests that a broader business ecosystem approach, including the living and use of the building, offers a mindset shift for developing sustainability-driven logic alongside profitable construction business and creating value for consumers.
... A simplified illustration combining the business ecosystem networks of the studied case projects. The business ecosystem layers are adapted from Moore (1993) and Heikkilä and Kuivaniemi (2012). ...
... Lessing and Brege 2015), which benefits the whole business ecosystem, including future end-users. However, due to the long lifetime of the product, i.e. the residential building, the ecosystem should apparently not be portrayed as a stagnant system including the keystone and the participants of the design and construction phases, but as an ecosystem that evolves throughout the life cycle of the building, with the homeowners taking the role of the keystone during the use phase (see also Heikkilä and Kuivaniemi 2012). ...
... Even though it has been heavily criticized (Bawden & Zuber-Skerritt, 2002;Coghlan & Brannick, 2001;Eden & Huxham, 1996;Greenwood & Levin, 1998;Kotnour, 2011), the abductive perspective is a method to test new ideas or to make sense of new situations. Previous studies have used this methodology for understanding the role of political entrepreneurship (Björkman & Sundgren, 2005), as well as how entrepreneurial ecosystems are built (Heikkilä & Kuivaniemi, 2012). ...
The current socio‐economic scenarios have generated several challenges for any organization. Regional authorities have designed policies that combine supply–demand needs and innovative entrepreneurship programs. The alignment between regional and business strategies has become critical to ensure the necessary resources, skills and capabilities in the region. This article analyses the alignment of regional strategies (entrepreneurial innovation ecosystems) and business strategies (development of new entrepreneurial innovations). By adopting mixed theoretical approaches, we proposed a conceptual model to understand the role of institutional strategies on the definition of business strategies. Given the nature of this study, our methodological design combines a case study approach and an action research approach. Our results provide insights into the positive outcomes generated when regional strategies and business strategies are aligned.
... Jahrhundert haben gezeigt, wie 24.000+ Personen vor mehr als 500 Jahren zu Formung, Ausbau und Nutzung der gemeinsamen Stärken beigetragen haben. Es ist ihnen gelungen, eine florierende Industrie mit erfolgreichen Organisationen (Agenten) aufzubauen (Munro, 2012 (Milinkovich, 2008;Heikkilä & Kuivaniemi, 2012). Eine Unterscheidung ist auch zwischen einem Ecosystem und einer Plattform notwendig. ...
Globalisierung, Urbanisierung und Digitalisierung sind Megatrends, die das aktuelle Zeitalter charakterisieren und den Arbeitsalltag beeinflussen. Sie werden als Externalitäten wahr-genommen, die in den Vorstellungen der Menschen auf die Menschen wirken. Bei genauerer Betrachtung kann allerdings festgestellt werden, dass die Konzepte von Menschen entwickelt wurden, durch Menschen geprägt und durch sie verarbeitet, interpretiert und bewertet werden. Es sind Erscheinungen, die auf das Engste mit den Menschen verknüpft sind. In Diskussionen, die darauf abzielen, den genannten Megatrends proaktiv und mit Mitgestaltungswille zu begegnen, taucht immer öfters der Begriff Ecosystem auf. Er impliziert ein Zusammenspannen von Individuen und Organisationen in einem globalen, oftmals urbanen und nicht selten digitalen Umfeld über Organisationsgrenzen hinweg mit dem Ziel, mit vereinten Ressourcen ein gewünschtes Ergebnis zu erzielen. Vorliegendes White Papier beabsichtig, das Thema Ecosystems zu erschliessen. Es werden Schlüsselbegriffe definiert, zentrale Punkte ausgeführt sowie Relevanz und Implikationen dargelegt.
... Such leverage demands a relationship view, where firms learn to manage various degrees of close or distant relationships with other actors (Gulati & Kletter, 2005). For example, small software firms can increase sales by following a specific ecosystem leader (Ceccagnoli et al., 2012), by using a multi-ecosystem strategy (Garnsey et al., 2008), or even by creating ecosystems of their own (Heikkilä & Kuivaniemi, 2012;Overholm, 2015). Based on the above, our first research question arises: ...
... Research on BEs can be further classified on the basis of the main features of the activities performed by the organisations that compose them. We can distinguish research on BEs in general (Moore, 1993;Heikkilä and Kuivaniemi, 2012), on digital BEs (Tsatsou, Elaluf-Calderwood and Liebenau, 2010;Selander et al. 2013), on innovatio n BE (Adner, 2006;Adner and Kapoor, 2010;Wessner, 2007;Nair, 2007;Almirall and Casadesus-Masanell, 2010;Chesbrough, 2003), on technology BE (Wareham at al. 2014), on platform BE (Ceccagnoli et al. 2012;Thomas et al. 2014) and, finally, on supply BE (Ketchen et al. 2014). ...
This paper investigates the heterogeneity of ways through which a policy innovation affects the structure and the complex interactions taking place within a business ecosystem and how different business ecosystems react differently to a policy innovation, given their structural and behavioural characteristics. The paper focuses on a specific policy innovation, namely the collective switching. We performed a cross-country analysis using the 6C framework as a tool for identifying differences in the structure and behaviours of energy business ecosystems after the introduction of collective switching. We examined in rich detail 11 European countries’ collective switching campaigns, and provide an accurate description of the transformations of their energy business ecosystems. Semi-structured interviews, conducted with consumer associations that organised collective switching campaigns, provide insights for the definition of some policy interventions.
... The theorizing in this paper suggests that, although IIEs have distinct characteristics and dynamics, impact investing scholars can learn from studies of other socio-economic ecosystems. The most relevant stream of ecosystems research is, arguably, the entrepreneurial ecosystems literature because IIEs exist as subsets or, more accurately, "sub-ecosystems" (Heikkilä & Kuivaniemi, 2012) of some entrepreneurial ecosystems. The proposed theory, which draws from entrepreneurial ecosystems theory, suggests that scholars studying the system of forces that produce and sustain impact investing could unearth important insights from mining the entrepreneurial ecosystems literature and determining what finding are transferrable across the two types of ecosystems. ...
Purpose
Impact investing, a type of values-based investing that combines financial investment with philanthropic goals, is receiving heightened scholarly and practitioner attention. The geography of impact investing, however, is largely unexamined, and it is not clear why some regional impact-investing communities are more vibrant than other communities. Regional differences in entrepreneurial activities are increasingly explained by differences in the vitality of entrepreneurial ecosystems, the set of interconnected forces that promote and sustain regional entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to leverage insights from entrepreneurial ecosystems studies to understand the dynamics of communities that encourage and support impact investing.
Design/methodology/approach
To explain inter-regional differences in the prevalence and intensity of impact investing, this conceptual paper draws from research on entrepreneurial ecosystems and impact investment to theorize about the ecosystem attributes and components that drive vibrant impact investing communities.
Findings
It is theorized that vibrant impact investing ecosystems have three system-level attributes – diversity, cohesion and coordination – that are influenced by the core components of the ecosystems, including the characteristics of investors, the presence of social impact support organizations and cultural values that promote blending logics.
Originality/value
The theoretical model contributes to research on impact investing and hybrid organizing, produces concrete implications for ecosystem builders and sets an agenda for future research.
