Aksenova, Gulnaz 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3261-0917
(2020)
THE DARK SIDE OF ECOSYSTEM ORCHESTRATION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL BUILT ENVIRONMENT SECTOR.
PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.
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Abstract
Ecosystem strategies have increased in importance as a powerful means by which competing interdependent organisations cooperate to create innovation that no single firm can match. As such, nowadays, scholars, practitioners and policy makers actively search for mechanisms to enable ecosystem emergence and orchestration. Prior research has generally examined strategies of established long-lived successful ecosystems in which ecosystem orchestrators take different approaches (closed-system and open-system) to ecosystem orchestration. Less is known about failed ecosystems and the failure of ecosystem emergence in mature sectors. This thesis addresses this gap through three linked empirical studies set in the digital built environment (DBE) sector. The first is an inductive single-case study of failed open-system orchestration set in the national Building Information Management (BIM) programmes in Finland over the period from 1982 to 2002. The second is an inductive single-case study of a failed closed-system orchestration process led by a software vendor in the northern Californian DBE sector. Despite the significant differences in orchestration processes and contexts between the first and the second study, analysis of these cases indicated very similar results, namely the intentional preservation of the status quo by the sector and a failure in business model innovation, which indicates the importance of the nature of context. This led to the third study that inductively examined the contexts of the Finnish and northern III Californian DBE sectors and their importance for ecosystem orchestration. The failure of the DBE sector is further contrasted with successful ecosystems to articulate the critical constructs and components for ecosystem orchestration. Together, the empirical studies of this thesis offer theory regarding why and how ecosystems fail. Overall, this research contributes to the literature on strategy and organisation theory and sets the stage for ongoing discussions on the dark side of interorganisational relations.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ecosystem, BIM, built environment, design and construction, orchestration, the dark side, platform |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2020 10:14 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 23:47 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/03092556 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3092556 |
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