Purpose - The rapid adoption of the ecosystem concept in innovation contexts has led to a proliferation of differing uses. Scholars need to be crystal clear which concept of the ecosystem they are using to facilitate communication between scholars and allow for cumulativeness and creativity....

This element explains the role of the CEO in maintaining and updating the internal selection environment and contributing to organizational evolution, as well as making fundamental decisions about organizational splits of the firm's business models as an ecosystem evolves.

The concept of an ‘innovation ecosystem’ is increasingly used to describe collectives of heterogeneous, yet complementary organizational actors who jointly create some kind of system-level output, analogous to an ‘ecosystem service’ that natural ecosystems facilitate, and one that...