商业生态系统演化中关系的本质和动态性:互补性、资产专用性与权力强度对比OACHSSCD

Participating in one or more business ecosystems is a choice that most companies have to make in this day and age.Over the past decade,the business ecosystem has been well conceptualized,but there is still a lack of research on the nature of the relationships between firms in the nature of and dynamics of inter-firm relationships in ecosystem.Building on previous research,this paper attempts to establish the conceptual boundaries of the dominant inter-firm relationship in the ecosystem-the relationship between focal firm and its ecosystem partners-and explores when and for what reasons ecosystem focal companies envelop their partners,charge premiums,or maintain the status quo as ecosystems evolve.It is discovered that three factors work together to contribute to ecosystem dynamics:asset specificity,complementarity,and power comparison.Among them,complementarity affects the performance of coordination between the two parties,asset specificity maintains the stability of ecosystem participants,and power comparison affects the extent of surplus value takeover and market entry behavior of focal firm,and the combination of the three jointly determines the evolution behavior of ecosystem focal firm,thereby determining the direction of ecosystem evolution.At the end of this paper,future researches on the processes of dynamic change of inter-firm relationships in the ecosystem are prospected.