On The Adaptive Innovation Mechanisms Of Business Ecosystem In The Network Environments

The study on the relation between organization and environment is one of the focuses among the theorist, while the adaptive innovation mechanisms of business ecosystem theory in network environments are the newest theoretical concept. Since 1990s, the emergence of network environments either has enlarged the ecological space of enterprise survival, or has brought keen competition between different enterprises. The dissertation puts emphasis on the innovation and dynamic evolution will enrich the enterprise theory today, which is the contribution of the dissertation. On the other hand, the implication of practice in the dissertation lies as follows: Firstly, business ecosystem helps to build competitive ability to reform enterprises in China. Secondly, the mode of business ecosystem can eliminate risk factors of enterprises and get to win-to-win. Thirdly, the dynamic nature of the operational capabilities helps enterprises to become the learning organization that is critical to sustainable enterprise performance.The dissertation draws heavily from the fields of economics, management science, sociology, and especially evolutionary biology, which provides a motivating framework and a source of inspiration for understanding the adaptive innovation behavior of large, loosely connected business ecosystems in the network environments. Meanwhile it approaches these problems, with various studying methods, such as historical examination and systematic analysis, dynamic and symbiotic analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis, reality observation and theoretical generalization and so on in a combining way.The main innovations made in this dissertation are as follows:(1) The model of network information movement is built.(2) The adaptive innovation mechanisms of business ecosystem are constructed by modeling method.(3) Synergy cooperation of adaptation among nodes in the business ecosystem is proved by game analysis.(3) Strategies of innovation symbiosis are established clearly in order to keep business ecosystem healthy.The whole dissertation consists of seven parts including an introductory part, concluding part and the rest separate five chapters. The following problems are mainly discussed about business ecosystem:(1) Business ecosystem: Business ecosystem comes from ecology that explains the relation between organization and environment. It is the organized system that is formed in an interactive course among the enterprises or between the enterprises and the people. The dissertation makes rather comprehensive and systematic study and exploration of the contents, characteristics, classification, functions and innovation of the business ecosystem.(2) The effects of network environments action on the business ecosystem: Network environments are composed of technical level and social level. Network information flows are the most important active powers. Thus, according to the network information movement model, the dissertation analyzes the changes of network environments action on the business ecosystem, such as value chain, resources arrange mode, organization structure, competitive strategies, operational methods.(3) The adaptive organization structure of business ecosystem: Based on the value network, business ecosystem is composed of different nodes that connect each other, such as suppliers, manufacturers, dealers,competitors, complementary firms and customers, and these nodes form web-chain structure. After analyzing the characteristics of the organization structure that is the guarantee of the adaptation to network environment, adaptive characters of four types of organization structure are compared.(4) The adaptive innovation mechanisms of business ecosystem: Analyze the running mechanisms from two perspectives that are core competence reconstruction and value creation. Through the leadership of the core firm, signing of the value contract and moving from the practical value network to virtual value network, business ecosystem realizes the increase in value.(5) Synergy cooperation and adaptation among nodes in the business ecosystem: In order to realize the dynamic balance, synergy and adaptive innovation among different nodes are main causes to enhance competitive advantage. On the basis of systematically studying competitive game, the dissertation goes a step further to analyze the existing problems and ways of improvement.(6) Strategies of innovation symbiosis and empirical analysis: Defining specific indicators of business ecosystem "health", the dissertation combines new insights with the research tradition in the fields of innovative and symbiotic strategies which build adaptive innovation mechanisms. By analyzing intra-MIS, extra-MIS and inter-MIS, it puts forward to optimization measures of network environments. On the basis of the investigation and analysis of Toyota business ecosystem in Tianjin, the dissertation points out the concept, indicators design and measurement of innovation symbiosis index, while the core competence and the running mechanisms are put into light, andfinally verify the innovative and symbiotic strategies.