著者

木川 大輔 髙橋 宏和 松尾 隆

出版者

首都大学東京大学院経営学研究科経済経営学会

雑誌

経済経営研究 (ISSN:2434690X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.1-22, 2020-03-20

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This paper reviews the theoretical background and recent trends within ecosystem research. Although the concept of an ecosystem is attracting attention these days, its definition remains ambiguous. Thus, we aim to clarify what makes ecosystem so ambiguous, and what makes ecosystem different from other research streams — the real features. The results of our reviews highlights that is based on the fact that ecosystem has developed from two different perspective : “Organizational Approach (given the existence of a central actor (leader) responsible for the overall value proposition of the ecosystem, leaders can connect directly with complemental actor to control and coordinate them directly)” and “Structural Approaches (an agreedupon interorganizational relationship that does not assume the existence of a central actor (leader) which does not necessarily link actors directly)” and that “structural approach” has developed by incorporating various elements. We also derive that the ecosystem concept is characterized by “Multilateral, nongeneral, non-hierarchical complementarity”.