Structured design, consistency analysis and failure reasoning of business workflows with activity-control templates and causal ordering

Wu, Shuang; Lin, Kuo-Chang

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.12.121

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“…The business workflow must run correctly in e-commerce ecosystems; if it does not, significant financial damage can occur. It is still a considerable challenge for developers to design, analyze, control, and diagnose a business workflow due to the complexity of the e-commerce environment (Wu & Lin, 2011 ). To support this, the workflow should be visualized transparently.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Developing design principles to standardize e-commerce ecosystems

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Platform ecosystems have captured a variety of markets, enabling coordination, transactions, and value co-creation between independent actors. A focal platform constitutes the central nexus of e-commerce ecosystems and fosters the interaction among ecosystem participants through their boundary resources. Standardizing these interfaces simplifies ecosystem entry for developers and increases the number of participants propelling the network effects, and thus the overall value of the ecosystem. Currently, there is a lack of prescriptive design knowledge guiding platform owners in designing successful e-commerce ecosystems. Addressing this issue, we followed a dual approach, reporting on a systematic literature review in which we identified design requirements and complemented these with a multiple-case study on selected e-commerce ecosystems. Aggregating the requirements resulted in six meta-requirements and 19 design principles that foster the standardization of focal e-commerce platforms. Our design principles simplify the development of complements and enable multi-homing for developers due to possible standardization across ecosystems.

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“…To support this, the workflow should be visualized transparently. Templates can be used to represent different situations and to help the user understand the meaning of the business process more quickly (Wu & Lin, 2011 ). Appropriate modeling languages should then be used accordingly.…”

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Developing design principles to standardize e-commerce ecosystems

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Let’s join forces: boundary resources as enablers of value co-creation in e-commerce ecosystems

Wulfert,

Strobel,

Hoang

2024

Electron Commer Res

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Collaboration and value co-creation are important drivers of the continuous growth of e-commerce, which is expected to reach US $6.4 trillion in 2024 despite current global crises. Only a few transaction platforms currently dominate e-commerce (eg., Amazon, Walmart), but other participants are likely to join these platforms’ ecosystems. Third-party developers can provide extensions to these ecosystems to enhance the platforms’ functionality, but third-party developers’ role in e-commerce ecosystems’ success and generativity remains underexamined in academia. The present study scrutinizes the efficacy of boundary resources in attracting and managing third-party developers in e-commerce ecosystems. This investigation is predicated upon qualitative data gathered through interviews with 14 domain experts. The insights derived from these interviews have culminated in the formulation of seven design principles. These design principles are envisaged to serve as a guiding framework for owners of innovation and transaction platforms within the e-commerce sphere, facilitating the strategic deployment of boundary resources. It is anticipated that collaboration, value creation, and the overall generative capacity as well as the success of e-commerce ecosystems shall be considerably enhanced.

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