Struggling towards virtuous coevolution: institutional and strategic works of Alibaba in building the Taobao e-commerce ecosystem

A bibliometric review of service ecosystems research: current status and future directions

“…Ecosystems are also characterized by coevolution (Zhang & Wang, 2018;Aarikka-Stenroos & Ritala, 2017), the interplay between macro-level phenomena and micro-level actors (Audretsch et al, 2019), and the dynamic pendulum of collaboration and competition (Adner et al, 2013).…”

“…Nonetheless, this research theme highlights that scholars should not overlook strategy and entrepreneurship phenomena in service ecosystems. Indeed, service ecosystems' key characteristics of coevolution (Zhang & Wang, 2018;Aarikka-Stenroos & Ritala, 2017) and the interplay between macro-level phenomena and micro-level actors (Audretsch et al, 2019) can be captured by a perspective where the system and its constituents are entwined in quest of strategic and entrepreneurial value creation. This research theme encompasses such keywords as strategy, system thinking, value in-context, entrepreneurship, and radical innovation.…”

Building and sustaining innovation ecosystems

“…To fully understand the development and viability of an emerging ecosystem (one lying between birth and expansion; , we need to take a holistic view of the key functional groups of actors and the dynamic interactions between them . Therefore, we use an institutional lens to conceptualize the emerging ecosystems and build on the work of ecosystem theorists who have recently introduced this lens to gain insights into ecosystem governance principles as well as actor coordination dynamics (Almpanopoulou et al, 2019;Thomas, 2014, 2018;Zhang and Wang, 2018).…”

“…Recent studies have also offered insights into how to solve sociopolitical co-evolution challenges . For instance, focal ventures can use alternative corporate political strategies such as lobbying, strategic dialogue, and constituency building, which have different levels of effectiveness in influencing regulators in various contexts (see Hara et al, 2015;Zhang and Wang, 2018). Moreover, new complex innovations have to satisfy socio-cultural expectations such as social fitness and lifestyle choices (Rong et al, 2017).…”

“…However, ecosystem actors are multilaterally intertangled ( Zhang and Wang, 2018). Different co-evolution challenges arise simultaneously and sometimes become intricately intertwined .…”