Digital ecosystems and their implications for competitive strategy

Towards a user based recommendation strategy for digital ecosystems

In digital ecosystems, the possibility of discovering useful digital objects based on recommendation techniques is one of the most useful tasks that still remains to realize. In this realm, it seems really powerful to have both an a priori user profiling and an a posteriori knowledge, extracted from historical and current user behavior, thus recommender systems can be easily adapted to these en...

Special Issue: Digital Business Strategy How a Firm’s Competitive Environment and Digital Strategic Posture Influence Digital Business Strategy

In this paper, we examine how the competitive industry environment shapes the way that digital strategic posture (defined as a focal firm’s degree of engagement in a particular class of digital business practices relative to the industry norm) influences firms’ realized digital business strategy. We focus on two forms of digital strategy: general IT investment and IT outsourcing investment. Dra...

EQUILIBRIUM FOR PROCUREMENT STRATEGY BETWEEN TRIAD COMPETITIVE SUPPLY CHAINS

In today complex worldwide supply chains, intermediary organizations like Contract manufacturers and GPOs are mostly used. Well-known OEMs delegate their purchasing and procuring to these intermediaries. Because of their positive influence on supply chain efficiency, it is very important to investigate the role of intermediaries in today competitive supply chains. One important question arising...

Digital Ecosystems

We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems, which are considered to be robust, self-organising and scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic problems. So, this work is concerned with the creation, investigation, and optimisation of Digital Ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems. First, we ...

How a Firm's Competitive Environment and Digital Strategic Posture Influence Digital Business Strategy