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Joachim Stonig
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Dr.
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Stonig
First name
Joachim
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joachim.stonig@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 7619
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Zeitschrift für OrganisationsentwicklungIssue: 3
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PublicationBusiness Ecosystems and Platforms:Towards a Shared UnderstandingSupplement to the special issue on "Business Ecosystems" in the journal "Die Unternehmung" (4/2019)Type: journal articleJournal: Die UnternehmungVolume: 73Issue: 4
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Die UnternehmungVolume: 73Issue: 4
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PublicationNavigating the Challenges of Ecosystem Emergence: A Multi-Level Review of Leader and Complementor StrategiesBusiness ecosystems are currently transforming many established sectors. Understanding how ecosystems emerge and influence strategic outcomes is thus an important concern for academics and managers of incumbent firms alike. Ecosystems result from configuration processes where an ecosystem leader aligns multiple independent but complementary organizations to offer an integrated solution to meet a specific and often complex customer need. In this review, we analyze empirical research on the processes and outcomes of ecosystem emergence. We structure our findings along three analytical levels, highlighting the changes that ecosystems engender in competitive dynamics, the inter-organizational relationships, and the required internal organization of the participating firms. Ecosystem participants, leaders and complementors have to navigate the creation phase dynamically and then develop the strategic activities suited to their eventual role in the ecosystem.Type: journal articleJournal: Die UnternehmungVolume: 73Issue: 4
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PublicationBarnes & Noble: Turning the Page to Compete in a Digital Book MarketThis short case covers the recent strategic developments of Barnes & Noble, the largest US book chain, and puts them in the context of its peers worldwide (in the UK, Canada, Germany and France). The perspective of the case is the one of James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble since August 2019. Readers are put in his shoes and are asked to analyze Barnes & Noble's response strategy to an increasingly digital book market. This short case is intended to serve as part of a course session on digitalization strategies or strategic change responding to macro trends. The case can support a full 45-minute class session, or can be integrated into a 90-minute session that also includes theory input by the lecturer. The case questions are open-ended but intended to introduce frameworks to assess strategic change and response strategies to exogenous shocks.Type: case study
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PublicationHow Incumbent Firms Strategically Transform from Product-Focus to Ecosystem LeadershipThe emergence of ecosystems in a sector represents a significant and potentially disruptive challenge for product-focused incumbent firms. The existing literature explains the emergence of new ecosystems mainly as a disruptive process of technological change that challenges the original, product-focused activities. Therefore, we know relatively little about how incumbents prevail when ecosystems profoundly transform entire sectors, but do not replace the product business. I use an in-depth, longitudinal case study of a machine manufacturer to explore how incumbents cope with emerging ecosystem-based competition. I find that the focal incumbent created an ecosystem in a process of continuous change following a logic of continuity, thereby transforming and complementing the original product-focused business. I also show how the focal firm changed over multiple strategic cycles, engaging in in-house solutions and customized orchestration before successfully shifting to an ecosystem logic. My main theoretical contribution is a process model of accumulated learning that highlights historical embeddedness and continuous organizational learning as important, yet under-recognized drivers in ecosystem creation.Type: doctoral thesis