A Model of Evolution of a Collaborative Business Ecosystem Influenced by Performance Indicators

Abstract

The materialization of the 4 th Industrial Revolution needs to emphasize the role of collaboration. Traditional business ecosystems have evolved to hyperconnected organizations facing more advanced collaboration models, dynamic networks, and more complex smart systems. Emerging collaborative aspects in this context need to be identified, and tools developed to help organizations coping with changing environment, market, and societal needs. As such, an assessment model is proposed to measure the expected self-adjustment of organizations in a collaborative business ecosystem, induced by performance indicators, in order to improve the organizations themselves and the ecosystem as a whole. Organizations with distinct profiles, categorized by classes of responsiveness, respond differently to the collaboration opportunities they may receive, or are more likely to invite others to collaborate. This behaviour is expected to be influenced by the variation in importance (weight) of each specific performance indicator adopted in a given business ecosystem, as the organizations, like individuals, tend to evolve according to how they are evaluated. To assess the proposed approach, an experiment has been set up using a simulation model based on system dynamics and agents. Preliminary results, based on a number of relevant scenarios, are presented and discussed.

What Are the Topics That Business Ecosystems Navigate? Updating of Scientific Activity and Future Research Agenda

“…Accord ing to Figure 2, the year 2018 managed to index 14 documents, some with strong relation to the variables innovation [33,46,47] and business development [33,34]. The year 2019 registered 17 manuscripts closely related to the variable collaborative network, including [4,20,38]. In 2020, there was one more document than the previou The year 2019 registered 17 manuscripts closely related to the variable collaborative network, including [4,20,38].…”

“…The year 2019 registered 17 manuscripts closely related to the variable collaborative network, including [4,20,38]. In 2020, there was one more document than the previou The year 2019 registered 17 manuscripts closely related to the variable collaborative network, including [4,20,38]. In 2020, there was one more document than the previous year, registering 18 publications closely related to the circular economy variable, including [48,49].…”

“…Collaborative Ecosystems: In Table 2, this is indicated as a motor theme and includes studies that deal with knowledge services supported by digital technologies to be applied in the distinct stages of the chains, from production, industrialization, coordination to commercialization [4,20,38,66,79].…”

“…There are numerous study topics linked to business ecosystems, such as digital business ecosystems [4,29,30], sustainability [11,31,32], business development [33][34][35], business models [7,36,37], benchmarking [38], electronic commerce [7,39], supply-chain management [8,9], and blockchain [40,41], among others.…”

Performance Indicators of a Collaborative Business Ecosystem – A Simulation Study

“…An analogous research methodology was also applied to supply chain collaboration [14]. As such, the performance indicators, the PAAM (Performance Assessment and Adjustment Model) and the influence mechanism proposed in [4] and [15], briefly described in the following sub-sections, are used to set up and assess the simulation model of the CBE presented in this simulation study.…”