Strategic Management Research Frontier of Platform-based Business Ecosystems: Perspectives and Themes

Gong Limin, Jiang Shisong

Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 38, Issue 06, pp. 38 - 50,62 (2016)  DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.2016.06.003

Abstract

The research focus of corporate value acquisition in academia has been extended from bilateral partnership context to industrial context and then to business ecosystem context. Based on the clarification of the concepts of platform and platform-based business ecosystem, this paper sorts out systematically the literature of platform-based business ecosystems from the perspectives of competition, resource-based view & dynamic capability, and networks, and then provides several potential research directions in combination with the great significance of platform-based business ecosystems to theory & practice.

Keywords

platform-based business ecosystem; resource-based view and dynamic capability; network effect