Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems

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

‘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.'

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems:Strategies, Platforms, Technologies, Governance and Societal Challenges 1Sabine BaumannPART I STRATEGIES AND PERSPECTIVES2 Networks, platforms, and digital business ecosystems: mapping thedevelopment of a field 11Sabine Baumann and Marcel Leerhoff3 Strategies for bridging traditional and digital ecosystems 25David R. King4 Disentangling the importance of digital platforms and absorptivecapacity in digital business ecosystems 40Antonio Crupi, Nicola Del Sarto, Alberto Di Minin and Martin F. Kenney5 Digital business ecosystems and dynamic capabilities 50Päivi Maijanen6 Dealing with strategic tensions in digital business ecosystems 63Sabine Reisinger and Johannes M. Lehner7 Organizations as ecosystems: the case of television production 80Gillian DoylePART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP8 Navigating digital waters: entrepreneurial ambiguities and the triad ofpurposein digital business modeling 94Stephanie Birkner and Martina Weifenbach9 The relevance of entrepreneurship ecosystems for start-up success:a venture capital perspective 109Nina Schumacher10 Value creation through start-up integration 126Christian Horneber11 Female entrepreneurs’ innovativeness in digital business ecosystems 143Ngozichukwuka M. Eneh Ojo, Oluwasoye P. Mafimisebi, and Felix ArndtPART III VALUE CREATION AND BUSINESS MODELS12 Design knowledge for digital business ecosystems: towards designprinciples for digital engagement platforms 161Simon Michalke, Lisa Lohrenz, Dominik Siemon, Christoph Lattemann, andSusanne Robra-Bissantz13 Digital platforms in the industrial sphere: value creation logics andplatform types 177Philipp Mosch and Robert Obermaier14 Customer roles in digital business ecosystems: different forms ofcustomer contribution in value creation 194Karolina Bähr15 Digital platforms and trading companies: the evolution of traditionalbusiness ecosystems into integrated digital business ecosystems 212Reinhard Schütte and Tobias Wulfert16 The digital consulting ecosystem business model 232Volker NissenPART IV GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT17 The role of location for non-focal firms in emerging digital businessecosystems: relevance of agglomeration factors in the German XR industry 250Christian Zabel and Verena Telkmann18 A digital business ecosystem maturity model for personal service firms 269Ricardo Guerrero, Christoph Lattemann, Simon Michalke, and Dominik Siemon19 Business ecosystems in digital journalism: cross-border collaborativeinvestigations as a novel organizational form 292Christopher Buschow and Maike Suhr20 Improved decisions for digitalization projects in digital business ecosystems 307Vinzenz Jeglinsky and Herwig Winkler21 Meta-study of success-related factors of SaaS providers based ona cloud computing ecosystem perspective 327Sebastian Floerecke and Franz LehnerPART V DATA AND TECHNOLOGIES22 Data (r)evolution: the economics of algorithmic search andrecommender services 349Oliver Budzinski, Sophia Gaenssle, and Nadine Lindstädt-Dreusicke23 Blockchain technology in the supply chain: learning from emergingecosystems and industry consortia 367Wafaa A.H. Ahmed and Bart L. MacCarthy24 Blockchain-based supply chain architecture adapted to digital businessecosystems 387Yu Cui and Prakash J. Singh25 Blockchain ecosystems in the creative industries: big dreams formicro-payments 405Ivana Kostovska26 Artificial intelligence meets onto-epistemologies: distinctivesociomaterial perspectives for organizational research at the intersectionof digital business ecosystems and robotics 424W.G. Will Zhao and Yimin YangPART VI SOCIETAL CHALLENGES AND SUSTAINABILITY27 Having a platform to stand on: examining modern challenges faced byworkers in platform-facilitated multi-sided markets 439Traci M. Bricka and Amber N. Schroeder28 Better data, better business, better lives: towards a symbiotic reportingframework for sustainable digital business ecosystems 457Patrick Peter and Will Ritzrau29 Conceptualizing smart-circular product-service ecosystems for thephotovoltaic power industry 475Verena Luisa Aufderheide, Laura Montag, and Marion Steven30 The digital business ecosystem sustainability cube: an instrumentenabling systematic collaboration decisions 492Timo Klünder and Marion Steven31 Big data analytics for developing sustainable capabilities of digitalbusiness ecosystems 510Raissa PershinaPART VII INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES32 Digital business ecosystems: a comparison of different industries 530Franziska Götz, Christoph Buck, Michael Rosemann, and Reinhard Meckl33 Doing digital news: a comparison of three business models from anecosystems perspective 549Cindy Price Schultz34 Digital business ecosystems in the media: VR technologyimplementation models 564Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska and Krzysztof Sokół35 The digital innovation ecosystem of eSports: a structural perspective 582Katharina Hölzle, Oliver Kullik, Robert Rose, and Matthias Teichert36 Value co-creation in eSports from a service ecosystem perspective 596Reinhard E. Kunz and Alexander Roth37 Entrepreneurial responses to the coronavirus pandemic: digitization ofthe US restaurant business 614Geoffrey M. Graybeal and Benjamin Lawrence38 Driving automation: an evolving digital business ecosystem tale 629Samina Husain and Ana Trigo39 Case study of the customer acceptance of Personal Data Trust Bank inJapan: a questionnaire survey 646Masaharu Tsujimoto and Soichiro Tanaka40 Potentials of digital business ecosystems in the healthcare market 661Franziska Götz, Caroline Reelitz, Christoph Buck, Torsten Eymann, andReinhard Meckl41 Digital twins in real estate: driving value throughout the building life cycle 679Adrian Toschka42 Developing big data analytics capability in a focal firm of a digitalbusiness ecosystem: the case of the Norwegian swine breeding industry 696Victoria Konovalenko Slettli43 Evolving internal digital business ecosystems for order fulfillment 713Julia Feldt and Henning Kontny44 Digital ecosystems in manufacturing: emerging models for Industry 4.0 726Giovanna CulotIndex