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The Transformer's Dilemma

2019-11-12 , Frankenberger, Karolin , Mayer, Hannah , Reiter, Andreas , Schmidt, Markus

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Digital Transformer's Dilemma: Innovate Twice to Survive

2021 , Frankenberger, Karolin , Mayer, Hannah , Reiter, Andreas , Schmidt, Markus

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Transformation Towards an Ecosystem

2020-09 , Frankenberger, Karolin , Mayer, Hannah , Reiter, Andreas , Schmidt, Markus

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Managing multi-tiered innovation ecosystems

2023-04 , Andreas Reiter , Joachim Stonig , Karolin Frankenberger

We study how orchestrators of innovation ecosystems govern their relationships with multiple heterogeneous complementors that differ in their positions and activities that contribute to an integrated value proposition. Prior research has focused on ecosystem-wide and complementor-specific governance, each not suited to adequately address the challenges of this context. Building on a multiple-case study in the financial services sector, our findings demonstrate that orchestrators create distinctly governed tiers of complementors based on the domains of uncertainty underlying their ecosystem blueprint. The organizational form and coordination mechanisms of these tiers reflect the convergent or explorative role of complementors in the core or the periphery of the blueprint. We contribute to ecosystem governance by introducing complementor tiers as a governance approach that blends elements of ecosystem-wide and complementor-specific governance and by linking governance choices to uncertainty and complementor roles. Furthermore, we discuss the potential for future research at the intersection of ecosystem and open innovation governance.

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Das Digital Transformer's Dilemma, Wie Sie Ihr Kerngeschäft digitalisieren und gleichzeitig innovative Geschäftsmodelle aufbauen.

2021 , Frankenberger, Karolin , Mayer, Hannah , Reiter, Andreas , Schmidt, Markus

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The Digital Transformer's Dilemma: Innovate Twice to Survive

2021 , Frankenberger, Karolin , Mayer, Hannah , Reiter, Andreas , Schmidt, Markus

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The Digital Transformer's Dilemma

2019 , Frankenberger, Karolin , Mayer, Hannah , Reiter, Andreas , Schmidt, Markus

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The Digital Transformer's Dilemma

2020-09 , Frankenberger, Karolin , Mayer, Hannah , Reiter, Andreas , Schmidt, Markus

How to energize your core while building disruptive products and services

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Pandemic Meets Digital Transformation

2020-08 , Frankenberger, Karolin , Mayer, Hannah , Reiter, Andreas , Schmidt, Markus

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Managing Multi-Tiered Innovation Ecosystems: How Lead Firms Govern Their Relationships With Multiple Heterogeneous Complementors

2021-09-20 , Reiter, Andreas

How do lead firms in innovation ecosystems govern their relationships with multiple heterogeneous complementors? While extant ecosystem literature has acknowledged that formal and informal governance mechanisms and the organizational form shape ecosystem governance, a nuanced perspective on how lead firms tailor their governance to manage the multiplicity of partners in innovation ecosystems does not yet exist. Developing a better understanding of inter-firm coordination and governance in ecosystems, however, seems more relevant than ever, as an increasing number of firms across industries work with more ecosystem- or platform-based models in which the firms develop value propositions through collaboration of multiple heterogenous and independent partners. This dissertation investigates lead firms' governance in innovation ecosystems to fill this gap in the literature by taking a inductive, multiple-case study approach. I provide empirical evidence illustrating that lead firms in these ecosystems, including heterogenous complementors, form distinctly governed tiers of complementors. More specifically, my findings show that lead firms' decisions about the mix of formal and informal governance mechanisms and the choice of organizational form are determined by the domains of uncertainty underlying the ecosystem blueprint and complementors' role of either exploring or reinforcing elements of this blueprint. Additionally, I find that lead firms from the same industry use different ecosystem strategies. Lead firms' strategies are either focused on developing a generative ecosystem around the established business or on building an integrative ecosystem focused on a specific customer-journey. I find that the chosen ecosystem strategy has important consequences for the uncertainty lead firms face, and for the suitability of governance decisions. I discuss the implications of my findings for ecosystem research and management practice, especially with regard to ecosystem governance and ecosystem strategies.