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By bringing together elements of a radical new approach to the firm
based on a biological metaphor of the ecosystem, this unique book
extends the limits of existing theories traditionally used to
investigate business networks. The book illustrates that like a
biological system, a business ecosystem is a non-homogeneous
community of entities made up of a large number of interconnected
participants with different interests; they depend on each other
for their mutual effectiveness and survival, and so are bound
together in a collective whole. By applying this new paradigm -
labelled the 'digital business ecosystem' - the book goes on to
show: methods used by companies to compete and cooperate within
their market and technological environment how modern businesses
shape this environment through their deliberate actions and
investment the ways in which new digital technologies feed into the
environment and influence how firms and groups of firms compete and
cooperate. Combining scientific depth with a rigorous and
multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this unique work
take significant steps in opening up the debate on the digital
business ecosystem concept. As such, this book will prove a
fascinating resource for academics with an interest in technology
and innovation management, economics of innovation, and economics
of technological change.
Innovation is occurring at a rapid pace in digital work and demands
increasing attention from academic scholars. In line with this
demand, this book aims to provide an overview of recent advances in
studies of innovation and technology in the digital space. The book
addresses the cultural elements influencing the diffusion and
adoption of digital technologies, the pervasive role of social
media, the organizational challenges of digital transformations,
and finally specific emerging technologies such as artificial
intelligence and distributed ledger technology. The plurality of
views offered makes this book particularly relevant to
practitioners, academics, and policymakers, and provides an
up-to-date view of the latest developments in Information Systems.
It gathers a selection of the best papers (double-blind
peer-reviewed) presented at the annual conference of the Italian
AIS Chapter in October 2020 in Pescara, Italy.
Over the past decade or so, systems integration has become a key
factor in the operations, strategy and competitive advantage of
major corporations in a wide variety of sectors (e.g. computing,
automotive, telecommunications, military systems and aerospace).
Systems integration is a strategic task that pervades business
management not only at the technical level but also at the
management and strategic levels. This book shows how and why this
new kind of systems integration has evolved into an emerging model
of industrial organization whereby firms, and groups of firms, join
together different types of knowledge, skill and activity, as well
as hardware, software, and human resources to produce new products
for the marketplace. This book is the first to systematically
explore systems integration from a business and innovation
perspective. Contributors delve deeply into the nature, dimensions
and dynamics of the new systems integration, deploying research and
analytical techniques from a wide variety of disciplines including,
the theory of the firm, the history of technology, industrial
organization, regional studies, strategic management, and
innovation studies. This wealth of research capability provides
deep insights into the new model of systems integration and
supports this with an abundance of empirical evidence. The book is
organized in three main parts. The first part focuses on the
history of systems integration. Contributors trace the early
history of systems integration using different industrial examples.
The second part presents theoretical and analytical aspects of
systems integration. Contributions concentrate on the regulatory
and cognitive features of systems integration, the relationships
between systems integration and regional competitive advantage, and
the way in which systems integration supports the competitive
advantage of firms. The third part takes industry and firm-level
approaches. Contributions focus on different sectors and highlight
the specificity of systems integration in various industrial
domains, stressing its importance for systems integration in the
case of complex capital goods, such as aircraft and
telecommunications equipment, as well as consumer goods, such as
personal computers and automobiles.
In the last twenty years, systems integration has become a key factor in the operations, strategy, and competitive advantage of major corporations in a wide variety of sectors. 'Systems Integration' refers to an emerging model of industrial organization whereby firms and groups of firms combine different types of knowledge, skills, and activities, as well as hardware, software, and human resources to produce new products for the marketplace. The transition towards the systems integration model has fundamental implications for the capabilities of firms. This is the first book to systematically explore systems integration from a business and innovation perspective, based on contributions from leading international scholars.
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