Innovation ecosystems: a meta-synthesis

Abstract

Purpose This metasynthesis aims to build a theory on the concept of innovation ecosystem from the state of the art of qualitative case studies available in indexed scientific production using interpretive synthesis (Hoon, 2013). Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted by the postulates of the metasynthesis method (Hoon, 2013) to generate theory from qualitative case studies. The authors retrieved 77 research papers from databases, of which 6 were used for synthesis purposes. Each selected research paper reported one or more cases, which were analyzed separately. At the final stage, a data synthesis was structured and the cases were crossed, which allowed the development of a schematic representation and a theoretical construction of the innovation ecosystem concept. The approach used in this research is a metatheoretical assumption from economics and management and ecology to explore the theoretical gap in the concept of innovation ecosystems. Findings There is not yet a conceptual consensus on the term, which sometimes leads researchers to address partial or complementary concepts. The analysis identified constitutive elements of an innovation ecosystem that lead to structuring a framework of organic and dynamic interrelationships that a given organization has with various external organizations, allowing the creation of innovative products in a faster way. Research limitations/implications This paper helps scholars and researchers consider a new metatheoretical perspective to analyze dynamics, constitutive elements and multilevels of an innovation ecosystem. Practical implications For practitioners, this paper sheds lights on the importance of recognizing a systemic consideration of innovation ecosystems that falls in global relationships, industry dynamics and identification of main global–local actors/enablers to produce innovations internally at a given organization. Originality/value The novelty of this paper lies in a more delineated definition and a schematic representation of an innovation ecosystem based on a global–local perspective of product creation and manufacturing and interactions that a given company has, regardless of the geographical location of its dispersed strategic partners.

Species in the wild: a typology of innovation ecosystems

“…Innovation ecosystems differ significantly and multidimensionally from other types of ecosystems (Ferasso et al 2018;Gomes et al 2018), and are attracting a strong and rapidly growing interest among scholars, practitioners and policymakers (Tsujimoto et al 2018;Yaghmaie and Vanhaverbeke 2019). This results in a rapidly growing stock of knowledge including theoretical propositions, conceptual considerations, analyses of practical examples and findings from explorative case studies.…”

“…Nonetheless, as in the case of ecosystems, the literature does not provide one widely recognized definition of the innovation ecosystem. The diversity and abundance of conceptualizations, definitions, operationalizations, structural approaches or even terms and labels (Oh et al 2016) is substantiated in available systematic literature reviews, including interpretative (Tsujimoto et al 2018), hybrid (Gomes et al 2018) and meta-analytical (Ferasso et al 2018) ones. Nevertheless, prior conceptualizations are mostly compatible with one another (Gomes et al 2018), and the adoption of a particular conceptualization depends on the reference theories underlying the particular aspects of innovation ecosystems explored in a particular study (Shaw and Allen 2018).…”

Quo Vadis Kepatuhan Pajak?

“…google.com dengan kata kunci kualitatif, kepatuhan wajib pajak, fenomenologi, dan interpretif. Ferasso, Takahashi, & Gimenez (2018) Ada sembilan kategori yang terbentuk dari sintesis hasilhasil penelitian dalam Tabel 2, yaitu ketidakpastian dan simplifi kasi ketentuan, akuntabilitas pengelolaan keuang an negara, peningkatan daya tukar pemerintah, transparansi sistem perpajakan, akses informasi melalui sosialisasi dan edu kasi wajib pajak, ketegasan dalam penegakan hukum, pemahaman bisnis wajib pajak, tarif pajak yang tinggi, serta integritas dan kinerja layanan petugas pajak. Sembilan kategorisa si tersebut merupakan bagian dari pengala manpengalaman mereka melaksanakan kewajiban pajak dengan Self Assessement.…”

A Importância da Gestão do Conhecimento para o Funcionamento dos Ecossistemas de Inovação

“…Atualmente, a GC apresenta novos desafios, sobretudo nos ambientes caracterizados como ecossistemas de inovação ou de negócios, uma vez que nesses locais o conhecimento está disseminado em toda uma rede de agentes que ora compete, ora coopera (ADNER; KAPOOR, 2010). O conhecimento é indispensável para a inovação e por isso é necessário trabalhar para a construção de estratégias que permitam que ele flua por todos os agentes do ecossistema, trazendo novos desafios para a GC que até então, possuía focos pessoais e organizacionais (FERASSO et al, 2018).…”