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Assessing Business Ecosystem Health: Role of Anchoring Actor in Formation Phase

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  • Tuomas Lappi

    (Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Oulu, Finland)

  • Tzong-Ru Lee

    (Department of Marketing, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)

  • Kirsi Aaltonen

    (Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Oulu, Finland)

Abstract

Business ecosystem concept takes ideas from ecological ecosystems into analysis of complex networks. Business ecosystems emerge either as managed initiatives or organically, impacted by internal or external stimuluses. Ecosystem formation is unpredictable, dynamic and challenging to control transferring project front-end into operational ecosystem. The theme of this research is how to form a healthy business ecosystem. If defines a framework for formation analysis and describes role of anchoring actors who lead the formation. Ecosystem health assessment through actors and relationships provides information to support ecosystem formation. Through a case study in Taiwanese health and wellbeing ecosystem this research presents how the anchoring actors can be identified and how they contribute to the ecosystem formation. Building on the anchoring actors’ contribution the research defines a model for ecosystem health assessment. Practitioners can use the findings to emphasize the ecosystem formation and to monitor the ecosystem health. This research contributes to business ecosystem and business network literatures by presenting the anchoring actor as an important role for ecosystem formation and by presenting how ecosystem health can be assessed.

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  • Tuomas Lappi & Tzong-Ru Lee & Kirsi Aaltonen, 2017. "Assessing Business Ecosystem Health: Role of Anchoring Actor in Formation Phase," Management Challenges in a Network Economy: Proceedings of the MakeLearn and TIIM International Conference 2017,, ToKnowPress.
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    1. Alireza Norouzi & Hassan Sadighi & Enayat Abbasi & Hossein Shabanali Fami & Hamidreza Mokhtari Aski, 2023. "Strategic analysis of startup ecosystem in Iran’s agricultural sector," Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Springer;UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, vol. 13(1), pages 1-17, December.
    2. Presenza, Angelo & Abbate, Tindara & Cesaroni, Fabrizio & Appio, Francesco Paolo, 2019. "Enacting Social Crowdfunding Business Ecosystems: The case of the platform Meridonare," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 190-201.
    3. Pütz, Fabian & Murphy, Finbarr & Mullins, Martin & O'Malley, Lisa, 2019. "Connected automated vehicles and insurance: Analysing future market-structure from a business ecosystem perspective," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
    4. Cobben, Dieudonnee & Ooms, Ward & Roijakkers, Nadine, 2023. "Indicators for innovation ecosystem health: A Delphi study," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).

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