BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS ARHITECTURE

Democratizing Business Software: Small Business Ecosystems for Open Source Applications

Virtual Ecosystems in Social Business Incubation

The complexity of today global context hinders the emergence of innovative endeavors; this inner enhancement of capabilities springs out from worldwide entrepreneurs that reveal procuring the best environmental conditions and technologies to nourish new ingenious ventures whether of social or any capitalist profile. Social entrepreneurs noticeably understand that making an intensive use of new ...

Business Models for Interoperable IoT Ecosystems

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing and more and more devices, so-called “things”, are being connected every day. IoT platforms provide access to those “things” and make them available for services and applications. Today, a broad range of such IoT platforms exist with differing functional foci, target domains, and interfaces. However, to fully exploit the economic impact of the IoT, it is ...

From Cooperation to Coopetition and Business Ecosystems

This chapter is devoted to an analysis of cooperative relationships, networks, and coopetition. The different types of agreements and the main theoretical approaches of cooperation are presented. The chapter explores the evolution of cooperation within inter-organizational networks and the emergence of other networks such as business ecosystems. The concept of coopetition, defined as the abilit...

Towards Business Process Management in Networked Ecosystems

Managing and supporting the collaboration between different actors is key in any organizational context, whether of a hierarchical or a networked nature. In the networked context of ecosystems of service providers and other stakeholders, BPM is faced with different challenges than in a conventional hierarchical model, based on up front consolidation and consensus on the process flows used in co...