The Nature of the Co-Evolutionary Process

Liu, Gordon and Rong, Ke (2015). The Nature of the Co-Evolutionary Process. Group & Organization Management, 40(6) pp. 809–842.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601115593830

Abstract

A business ecosystem is a community that consists of various levels of interdependent firms which co-evolve in an ongoing cycle and constantly renew themselves. By undertaking an in-depth, qualitative study of multinational companies in the mobile computing industry based in the Great China region, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we explore the nature of the co-evolutionary process and its influence on complex product development. We find that this process consists of three domains of activity: co-vision, co-design, and co-create. We also find that each domain of activity plays a different but important role in stimulating collaborative innovation for complex product development in the mobile computing industry’s business ecosystem. We also discuss the implications for theory and future research directions.

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