Digital Business Ecosystem

List of contributors vii Foreword xx Aldo Romano Preface xxii Michael Hobday Introduction 1(10) Angela Corallo Giuseppina Passiante Andrea Prencipe PART I DIGITAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS: THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS The business ecosystem as a multiple dynamic network 11(22) Angelo Corallo The paradigm of structural coupling in digital ecosystems 33(22) Paolo Dini Francesco Nachira PART II THE ORGANIZATIONAL DIMENSION OF DIGITAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS The quest for new organizational forms: the strange case of open source software communities 55(27) Robert M. Grant From a national to a metanational ecosystem: harnessing the value of global knowledge diversity 82(21) Peter J. Williamson PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON DIGITAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS Network of relationships in the Indian software industry: a novel business ecosystem? 103(14) J. Ramachandran Sourav Mukherji The growing volatility of the global economy from a complex system perspective 117(10) Chuan-Leong Lam China and the new economy: a case of convergence? 127(32) Max Boisot John Child PART IV TOOLS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR DIGITAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS The management of intellectual property in the digital business ecosystem 159(25) Puay Tang Jordi Molas-Gallart MAP-STEPS: a framework for opportunity assessment and development of a sustainable business model for eBusiness 184(14) Swapan Kumar Majumdar Tools and frameworks for digital business ecosystems 198(19) Erik Brynjolfsson John Quimby Glen Urban Marshall Van Alstyne David Verrill Enabling the flexible enterprise - RFID and smart devices 217(12) Robert Laubacher Index 229