The recent surge of interest in “ecosystems” in strategy research and practice has mainly focused on what ecosystems are and how they operate. We complement this literature by considering when and why ecosystems emerge, and what makes them distinct from other governance forms. We argue that...

This is a compendium text analysis of the ecosystem literature, which is summarised in the article "Towards a Theory of Ecosystem" published in the Strategic Managment Journal. The article details on the text analysis methodology, the classification of the literature's streams and offers also a...

The recent surge of interest in “ecosystems” in strategy research and practice has mainly focused on what ecosystems are and how they operate. We complement this literature by considering when and why ecosystems emerge, and what makes them distinct from other governance forms. We argue that...