Linking business ecosystem lifecycle with platform strategy: a triple view of technology, application and organisation
This paper explores platform strategies along the business ecosystem lifecycle (BELC), based on a multiple-case study. Developing observations on platform strategies from a firm level to a business ecosystem level, the study investigates the issue of platform strategy through three views, respectively technology, application and organisation. As a result, a general evolutional pattern of platform strategy along the BELC is identified, where an open strategy emerges at the birth and expansion phases, then a dominating strategy rises at the authority phase, and finally the opportunistic strategy takes over at the renewal phase. This paper connects the core firms in the business ecosystem with the evolutionary platform strategies.
Contents: Foreword Introduction: an imaginary crisis? Reframing environmentalism Part I Nature and Society: Society within nature Nature within society From nature to human environment. Part II Sustainability after the End of Nature: The principle of sustainability The politics of sustainability. Part III Towards a Green Liberal Society: Green politics, democracy and liberalism Can we democratise sustainability? Ecological citizenship and sustainability Conclusion: the future of environmentalism Bibliography Index.