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Sustainability of Business Ecosystems and Platform-Based Markets

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 September 2023) | Viewed by 14646

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Yuki Inoue

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, W9-86 (W9 bldg. 636), 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
Interests: innovation; business ecosystems; business platforms; electronic commerce
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Dr. Tsujimoto Masaharu

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Department of Innovation Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology 3-3-6-CIC, Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023, Japan
Interests: innovation management; business ecosystem; platform strategy
Dr. Takeshi Takenaka

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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 6-2-3, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-0882, Chiba, Japan
Interests: service engineering; human infomatics; product-service system; service management; employee engagement

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The ecosystem in the field of business management is defined as “communities of interdependent yet hierarchically independent heterogeneous participants, who collectively generate an ecosystem value proposition” (Thomas and Ritala, 2022: p. 515). Such business ecosystems have an important role in the current society. For example, the major business models of the world’s largest firms, such as Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Google, are relating business ecosystems. Additionally, the "platform" often plays a role of the core in those business ecosystems. Therefore, platform-based business ecosystems became one major theme in the research field of business management.

The business ecosystems and platform-based markets can provide fruitful potential for generation of innovations and market growth. Therefore, this concept is strongly connected to the eighth and ninth goals in the Sustainable Development Goals. Some previous studies have investigated these aspects. For example, a study focused on the sustainability of platform-based ecosystem of e-commerce, considering on the persistency of logistics infrastructures (Inoue, Hashimoto, and Takenaka, 2019). Another study investigated sustainability of the platform-based business ecosystem from the aspect of ecosystem members (Awano and Tsujimoto, 2022). I believe that there are more varied potential research topics in this area.

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore new aspects and knowledge of the sustainability for business ecosystems and the platform-based markets. In this Special Issue, broad topics relating sustainability to business ecosystems and platforms are welcome. Additionally, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Sustainable aspects of business ecosystems.
  • Sustainability of platform-based markets.
  • Influence and role of business ecosystems and platforms for sustainable society.
  • Ecosystems that sustainably generating innovations.
  • Ecosystem disruption and sustainability.
  • Design of sustainable business ecosystems and platform businesses.
  • Ecosystem design and multi-stakeholder analysis.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

References

  1. Awano, H.; Tsujimoto, M. Mechanisms for business ecosystem members to capture value through the strong network effect. Sustainability 2022, 14, 11565.
  2. Thomas, L.D.W.; Ritala, P. Ecosystem legitimacy emergence: A collective action view. J. Manag. 2022, 48, 515–541.
  3. Inoue, Y.; Hashimoto, M.; Takenaka, T. Effectiveness of ecosystem strategies for the sustainability of marketplace platform ecosystems. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5866.

Dr. Yuki Inoue
Dr. Tsujimoto Masaharu
Dr. Takeshi Takenaka
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • business ecosystem
  • platform ecosystem
  • innovation ecosystem
  • service ecosystem

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Dynamic Capability in Business Ecosystems as a Sustainable Industrial Strategy: How to Accelerate Transformation Momentum
by Kenichiro Banka and Naoshi Uchihira
Sustainability 2024, 16(11), 4506; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16114506 - 26 May 2024
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 1975
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From a sustainable development perspective, continuous industrial growth is an important issue. In recent years, it has become difficult for companies to survive in an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing business environment. To align with these changes, companies must not only rapidly transform [...] Read more.
From a sustainable development perspective, continuous industrial growth is an important issue. In recent years, it has become difficult for companies to survive in an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing business environment. To align with these changes, companies must not only rapidly transform their own organizations but also their current business domains. However, it is difficult for a leading company alone to transform existing business domains. While it is known that the transformation of a business area requires cooperation with partners, the mechanism of sustainable growth in existing business ecosystems is unclear. To solve this problem, this paper aims to unveil the role of transformation momentum in the business ecosystem in the IT (information technology) industry, which is rapidly changing from traditional IT services to cloud-based services. This study has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as IoT case studies, as these cases have successfully transitioned from their original business domains to new ones. Based on these cases, we established a Sustainable Business Ecosystem Transformation (SBET) model for transforming industries using the business ecosystem’s dynamic capabilities. The SBET model demonstrates how transformation momentum can be created using business ecosystems in four phases (Exploration, Creation, Formation, and Mutation). The SBET model contributes to expanding the business ecosystem concept by adopting sustainable growth and accelerating transformations to enhance global IT business ecosystems. Using the model in this study, companies can achieve continuous growth not only in their own organizations but also in their partners in the wider business domain. Full article
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Research on Value Co-Creation Strategies for Stakeholders of Takeaway Platforms Based on Tripartite Evolutionary Game
by Jianjun Li, Xiaodi Xu and Yu Yang
Sustainability 2023, 15(17), 13010; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151713010 - 29 Aug 2023
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As the digitization of the supply side continues to advance, the takeaway industry has made a significant contribution to economic growth. However, the rapid expansion of the scale has also brought many social problems, merchants provide low-quality goods out of the psychology of [...] Read more.
As the digitization of the supply side continues to advance, the takeaway industry has made a significant contribution to economic growth. However, the rapid expansion of the scale has also brought many social problems, merchants provide low-quality goods out of the psychology of opportunity, and the uneven quality of goods and asymmetric information not only bring great regulatory problems for the takeaway platform, but also make it difficult for consumers to identify the platform, merchants, and consumers as takeaway platform stakeholders, it is difficult to integrate resources to achieve value co-creation. Therefore, in order to realize the value co-creation among the stakeholders of the takeaway platform, a three-party evolutionary game model was constructed to analyze and simulate the strategic choices of stakeholders under different situations through simulation experiments and to explore the sensitive influence of each factor. The results of the study show the following: shaping a scientific reward and punishment system and setting reasonable rewards and punishments within a limited threshold; platforms, consumers using word-of-mouth effects to amplify the loss of network externalities that merchants have to bear when they provide low-quality services, and improving the consumer feedback mechanism to reduce the cost of feedback are all effective measures to promote the active participation of takeaway platform stakeholders in value co-creation and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the takeaway industry. Full article
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Gig Workers’ Quality of Life (QoL) and Psychological Well-Being in Service Delivery Platform
by Yeong Gug Kim, Yeasun Kate Chung and Eunju Woo
Sustainability 2023, 15(11), 8679; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118679 - 26 May 2023
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The study aims to determine the understanding and perception of working conditions perceived by platform workers in terms of work/life balance and the quality of life. In addition, this current study empirically analyzes their perception on the structural relationship amongst work and life [...] Read more.
The study aims to determine the understanding and perception of working conditions perceived by platform workers in terms of work/life balance and the quality of life. In addition, this current study empirically analyzes their perception on the structural relationship amongst work and life balance and the quality of life. The study uses quality of life and work/life balance to build a conceptual model, and questionnaires were collected through an online survey of 447 gig workers using a convenience sampling method. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was employed to investigate the adequacy of the measurement model, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed along with the maximum likelihood method to examine relationships amongst the seven constructs in the proposed model. The study results show there were statistically significant values in five paths (working environment → overall QOL; leisure domain → overall QOL; economic domain → overall QOL; emotional domain → overall QOL; and overall QOL → psychological well-being), except for ‘social support → overall QoL’. It was found that the economic and emotional factors that belong to the life domain had more impact on the overall quality of life than the components of the ‘work category’. Implications for future research and the work environment perceived by gig workers for the platform market are discussed. Full article
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Sustainable Fashion Product Innovation: Continuous Value of Apparel Products on Second-Hand Product Trading Platforms
by Xiaoxiao Zhou, Ryoga Miyauchi and Yuki Inoue
Sustainability 2023, 15(10), 7881; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15107881 - 11 May 2023
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This study aimed to determine the appropriate fashion design elements for fashion product innovation to achieve continuous product value and promote sustainable fashion. We focused on five fashion design elements: classical, transformative, patterned, multimaterial, and decorative. Using an apparel auction market dataset, we [...] Read more.
This study aimed to determine the appropriate fashion design elements for fashion product innovation to achieve continuous product value and promote sustainable fashion. We focused on five fashion design elements: classical, transformative, patterned, multimaterial, and decorative. Using an apparel auction market dataset, we verified how the five design elements contributed to the value continuation of apparel products across five categories. We statistically confirmed the design elements that positively affect the continuous value of different apparel products per fashion product categories. This study can help designers select elements that sustain product value, providing them with direct references for recommendations. Full article
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