2015
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2015.8
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Managing Identity Tensions during Mobile Ecosystem Evolution

Abstract: The idea of an ecosystem suggests a holistic framing of how heterogeneous actors relate to one another and of the dynamics of their relationships. Because of the dynamics some relationships will become uncertain, posing significant challenge to the identity of participating organizations. Unfortunately, the Information Systems (IS) literature has not examined how organizations develop and negotiate their identities during ecosystem evolution. We fill this void by exploring identity challenges that Swedish Road… Show more

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“…Regulation changes can disrupt the roles of actors and disseminate the cumulative power in platform ecosystems. Recent literature has investigated the challenges of organizational identity transformations when establishing novel relationships with other ecosystem participants [14]. In this paper, we show that identity boundaries may be ambiguous and imprecise as the real dependencies could be masked with the complex service provider & orchestrator relations.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 92%
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“…Regulation changes can disrupt the roles of actors and disseminate the cumulative power in platform ecosystems. Recent literature has investigated the challenges of organizational identity transformations when establishing novel relationships with other ecosystem participants [14]. In this paper, we show that identity boundaries may be ambiguous and imprecise as the real dependencies could be masked with the complex service provider & orchestrator relations.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…In such highly-regulated markets, changes can occur due to legislation, politics, corporate lobbying and technology disruption. By investigating TUPAS we fortuitously address the calls for public-private sector partnerships research [14] by reviewing how the governmental endorsement contributes to the authentication platform's sustained dominance and how the regulation changes in the ecosystem can recursively lead to the platform deterioration. Ecosystem changes from the software perspective could occur via boundary resources, e.g.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In this context, DSI is described in terms of combining digital and physical components to enable the design and delivery of novel products or services [16] [59]. Such digital and physical technologies are introduced within organizational contexts, which in turn affect human actors, socio-material practices [69], and even organizational identities [70]. Thus, this stream takes particular interest in the properties and innovation of the digital infrastructure, rather than the innovation process or a specific service.…”
Section: The Infrastructurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is a growing interest on platform thinking [11,22,23,54], which has resulted in a cumulative knowledge on platform ecosystems and their governance [17,19,31,53]. However, there are fewer attempts to investigate the companies that are not dominant players [25,30,37], but need to integrate to various infrastructures and platforms to sustain or extend their business capabilities [49]. These non-focal firms, from the viewpoint of platforms, are platform-utilizing businesses that do not develop platform capability extensions, have no influence on the platform whatsoever, but depend massively on it.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%