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This timely Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems provides a comprehensive overview of current research and industrial applications as well as suggestions for future developments. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the Handbook includes rigorously researched contributions from over 80 global expert authors from a variety of areas including administration and management, economics, computer science, industrial engineering, and media and communication. Chapters analyze the core areas of digital business ecosystems: strategies, platforms, entrepreneurship, business models, governance, data and technologies as well as sustainability and societal issues. The Handbook also explores a wealth of industry applications. It is the most comprehensive compendium on digital business ecosystems and a fascinating resource. Scholars, students and practitioners from all areas of business administration and management, economics, computer science, industrial engineering, and media and communication interested in digital transformation and digital business ecosystems will find this Handbook invaluable. It is also exemplary for practitioners in manufacturing and logistics, media industries, the health sector, and other service sectors who are seeking solutions to practical issues regarding digital business ecosystems.

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Author:   Sabine Baumann
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781839107184

ISBN 10:   1839107189
Pages:   784
Publication Date:   22 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems: Strategies, Platforms, Technologies, Governance and Societal Challenges 1 Sabine Baumann PART I STRATEGIES AND PERSPECTIVES 2 Networks, platforms, and digital business ecosystems: mapping the development of a field 11 Sabine Baumann and Marcel Leerhoff 3 Strategies for bridging traditional and digital ecosystems 25 David R. King 4 Disentangling the importance of digital platforms and absorptive capacity in digital business ecosystems 40 Antonio Crupi, Nicola Del Sarto, Alberto Di Minin and Martin F. Kenney 5 Digital business ecosystems and dynamic capabilities 50 Päivi Maijanen 6 Dealing with strategic tensions in digital business ecosystems 63 Sabine Reisinger and Johannes M. Lehner 7 Organizations as ecosystems: the case of television production 80 Gillian Doyle PART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP 8 Navigating digital waters: entrepreneurial ambiguities and the triad of purpose in digital business modeling 94 Stephanie Birkner and Martina Weifenbach 9 The relevance of entrepreneurship ecosystems for start-up success: a venture capital perspective 109 Nina Schumacher 10 Value creation through start-up integration 126 Christian Horneber 11 Female entrepreneurs’ innovativeness in digital business ecosystems 143 Ngozichukwuka M. Eneh Ojo, Oluwasoye P. Mafimisebi, and Felix Arndt PART III VALUE CREATION AND BUSINESS MODELS 12 Design knowledge for digital business ecosystems: towards design principles for digital engagement platforms 161 Simon Michalke, Lisa Lohrenz, Dominik Siemon, Christoph Lattemann, and Susanne Robra-Bissantz 13 Digital platforms in the industrial sphere: value creation logics and platform types 177 Philipp Mosch and Robert Obermaier 14 Customer roles in digital business ecosystems: different forms of customer contribution in value creation 194 Karolina Bähr 15 Digital platforms and trading companies: the evolution of traditional business ecosystems into integrated digital business ecosystems 212 Reinhard Schütte and Tobias Wulfert 16 The digital consulting ecosystem business model 232 Volker Nissen PART IV GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT 17 The role of location for non-focal firms in emerging digital business ecosystems: relevance of agglomeration factors in the German XR industry 250 Christian Zabel and Verena Telkmann 18 A digital business ecosystem maturity model for personal service firms 269 Ricardo Guerrero, Christoph Lattemann, Simon Michalke, and Dominik Siemon 19 Business ecosystems in digital journalism: cross-border collaborative investigations as a novel organizational form 292 Christopher Buschow and Maike Suhr 20 Improved decisions for digitalization projects in digital business ecosystems 307 Vinzenz Jeglinsky and Herwig Winkler 21 Meta-study of success-related factors of SaaS providers based on a cloud computing ecosystem perspective 327 Sebastian Floerecke and Franz Lehner PART V DATA AND TECHNOLOGIES 22 Data (r)evolution: the economics of algorithmic search and recommender services 349 Oliver Budzinski, Sophia Gaenssle, and Nadine Lindstädt-Dreusicke 23 Blockchain technology in the supply chain: learning from emerging ecosystems and industry consortia 367 Wafaa A.H. Ahmed and Bart L. MacCarthy 24 Blockchain-based supply chain architecture adapted to digital business ecosystems 387 Yu Cui and Prakash J. Singh 25 Blockchain ecosystems in the creative industries: big dreams for micro-payments 405 Ivana Kostovska 26 Artificial intelligence meets onto-epistemologies: distinctive sociomaterial perspectives for organizational research at the intersection of digital business ecosystems and robotics 424 W.G. Will Zhao and Yimin Yang PART VI SOCIETAL CHALLENGES AND SUSTAINABILITY 27 Having a platform to stand on: examining modern challenges faced by workers in platform-facilitated multi-sided markets 439 Traci M. Bricka and Amber N. Schroeder 28 Better data, better business, better lives: towards a symbiotic reporting framework for sustainable digital business ecosystems 457 Patrick Peter and Will Ritzrau 29 Conceptualizing smart-circular product-service ecosystems for the photovoltaic power industry 475 Verena Luisa Aufderheide, Laura Montag, and Marion Steven 30 The digital business ecosystem sustainability cube: an instrument enabling systematic collaboration decisions 492 Timo Klünder and Marion Steven 31 Big data analytics for developing sustainable capabilities of digital business ecosystems 510 Raissa Pershina PART VII INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES 32 Digital business ecosystems: a comparison of different industries 530 Franziska Götz, Christoph Buck, Michael Rosemann, and Reinhard Meckl 33 Doing digital news: a comparison of three business models from an ecosystems perspective 549 Cindy Price Schultz 34 Digital business ecosystems in the media: VR technology implementation models 564 Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska and Krzysztof Sokół 35 The digital innovation ecosystem of eSports: a structural perspective 582 Katharina Hölzle, Oliver Kullik, Robert Rose, and Matthias Teichert 36 Value co-creation in eSports from a service ecosystem perspective 596 Reinhard E. Kunz and Alexander Roth 37 Entrepreneurial responses to the coronavirus pandemic: digitization of the US restaurant business 614 Geoffrey M. Graybeal and Benjamin Lawrence 38 Driving automation: an evolving digital business ecosystem tale 629 Samina Husain and Ana Trigo 39 Case study of the customer acceptance of Personal Data Trust Bank in Japan: a questionnaire survey 646 Masaharu Tsujimoto and Soichiro Tanaka 40 Potentials of digital business ecosystems in the healthcare market 661 Franziska Götz, Caroline Reelitz, Christoph Buck, Torsten Eymann, and Reinhard Meckl 41 Digital twins in real estate: driving value throughout the building life cycle 679 Adrian Toschka 42 Developing big data analytics capability in a focal firm of a digital business ecosystem: the case of the Norwegian swine breeding industry 696 Victoria Konovalenko Slettli 43 Evolving internal digital business ecosystems for order fulfillment 713 Julia Feldt and Henning Kontny 44 Digital ecosystems in manufacturing: emerging models for Industry 4.0 726 Giovanna Culot Index

Reviews

‘The Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems approaches the theory and practice from an interdisciplinary and system perspective. The Handbook presents a body of knowledge from international scholars and practitioners, sharing their research, experiences, and latest thinking related to Digital Business Ecosystem implementation. The authors capture the scope of the technological, business, economic, social, and political factors that influence the development of Digital Business Ecosystem and provides guidance researchers, practitioners, and those embarking on a career in advancing the diffusion of digital technologies in business systems.' -- Gerard H. Gaynor, 3M Director of Engineering (Retired), US ‘The digital business ecosystem is a fundamentally new context for strategising, managing and organising, one that transcends traditional industry structures – and many established theories of management and organisation. This Handbook is an invaluable guide to this emerging landscape, not simply capturing developments but exploring their implications from a rich diversity of perspectives.’ -- Lucy Kueng, University of Oxford, UK ‘Digital business ecosystems revolutionize the practice and theory of value creation in manufacturing, services and supply chains. This Handbook is a very timely and comprehensively designed source of an utmost importance. It comprises both conceptual and technological views. Being edited and written by the leading experts in the field, the Handbook is an invaluable source for both introductory and advanced reading.’ -- Dmitry Ivanov, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany

'Digital business ecosystems revolutionize the practice and theory of value creation in manufacturing, services and supply chains. This Handbook is a very timely and comprehensively designed source of an utmost importance. It comprises both conceptual and technological views. Being edited and written by the leading experts in the field, the Handbook is an invaluable source for both introductory and advanced reading.' - Dmitry Ivanov, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany

'The digital business ecosystem is a fundamentally new context for strategising, managing and organising, one that transcends traditional industry structures - and many established theories of management and organisation. This Handbook is an invaluable guide to this emerging landscape, not simply capturing developments but exploring their implications from a rich diversity of perspectives.' -- Lucy Kueng, University of Oxford, UK 'Digital business ecosystems revolutionize the practice and theory of value creation in manufacturing, services and supply chains. This Handbook is a very timely and comprehensively designed source of an utmost importance. It comprises both conceptual and technological views. Being edited and written by the leading experts in the field, the Handbook is an invaluable source for both introductory and advanced reading.' -- Dmitry Ivanov, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany

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Edited by Sabine Baumann, Professor of Digital Business, Berlin School of Economics and Law, and Scientific Director, OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, Germany

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