Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems

Adner R. - Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, USA Oxley J.E. - Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto, Cananda Silverman B.S. - University of Toronto, Cananda

• List of Contributors.Introduction: Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems. Collaborating with Complementors: What Do Firms Do?. Evolving an Open Ecosystem: The Rise and Fall of the Symbian Platform. Building Joint Value: Ecosystem Support for Global Health Innovations. Business Ecosystems’ Evolution — An Ecosystem Clockspeed Perspective. Do Product Architectures Affect Innovation Productivity in Complex Product Ecosystems?. The Organization of Innovation in Ecosystems: Problem Framing, Problem Solving, and Patterns of Coupling. The Emergence and Coordination of Synchrony in Organizational Ecosystems. Open Innovation Norms and Knowledge Transfer in Interfirm Technology Alliances: Evidence from Information Technology, 1980–1999. The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley. Networks and Knowledge: The Beginning and End of the Port Commodity Chain, 1703-1860. Towards a Network Perspective on Organizational Decline. Explaining the Attacker’s Advantage: Technological Paradigms, Organizational Dynamics, and the Value Network. Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems. Advances in Strategic Management. Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems. Copyright page.