Dynamic capabilities for transitioning from product platform ecosystem to innovation platform ecosystem

Kazem Haki, Michael Blaschke, Stephan Aier, Robert Winter and David Tilson

European Journal of Information Systems, 2024, vol. 33, issue 2, 181-199

Abstract: Over recent decades, many platform-native start-ups and firms were founded and some are now among the world’s most valuable. This study, however, focuses on an incumbent firm transitioning from a long established product platform ecosystem to an innovation platform ecosystem in response to the platform-natives’ threats of disruption. We specifically investigate the dynamic capabilities needed by the incumbent firm in an enterprise software ecosystem in the transition phase. Our analysis builds on multi-perspective empirical data covering the viewpoints of all the actor types in the ecosystem, i.e., platform owner, platform partners, and end-user firms. The results imply the necessity of four dynamic capabilities: resource curation, ecosystem preservation, resource reconfiguration, and ecosystem diversification. With this study, we contribute to the emerging literature on the incumbent firms’ transition to a new ecosystem organising logic, and extend the study of dynamic capabilities specifically for the case of transitioning to innovation platform ecosystems.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/0960085X.2022.2136542

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