Reconfiguration of Business Models and Ecosystems Decoupling and Resilience

Decoupling of business models and ecosystems is the disconnection of certain characteristic activities originally planned and completed in coincidence. It could bring in an immense adverse shock in the functioning of established business models and ecosystems possibly bringing them to resilience. Core causes for decoupling and resilience of business models and ecosystems are jolts, known as global crisis, universal pandemics, etc. The undesirable outcomes of critical events can reveal unique circumstances for business model and ecosystem resilience. Business model and ecosystem resilience represents a mandatory prerequisite for firms challenging their functioning and even very existence. Research has been conducted thus far, nevertheless this theme requires significantly more consideration. The key objective of this book is to bring further insights in the field delivering a thorough examination of the ways in which business models and ecosystems can develop resilience under extraordinary conditions. In the book, the resilience of business models and ecosystems is analysed aiming to investigate further the specifics of the relevant processes securing resilience and its outcomes. The resilience of business models and ecosystems is scrutinised as a credible way for enhancing the predispositions of firm’s survivability. Chapter 9 of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

1 Decoupling and Resilience of Business Models and EcosystemsSvetla T. Marinova and Marin A. Marinov2 What Is Ahead? Impact of The Current Economic Volatility on Business Models and EcosystemsWinfried Müller3 Overcoming Barriers in Creating Ecosystem Business Models: Achieving Resilience in an Uncertain and Competitive SettingSebastian Evald Stück, Peter Thomsen and Christian Nielsen4 Offshoring vs Further Offshoring: A Multi-level Analysis on the Firm-, Country- and Industry-Specific Drivers of Business Model ReconfigurationStefano Elia and Giorgio Renna5 Reconfiguring Digital Business Models to Enter the Japanese MarketArto Ojala and William W. Baber6 Data-driven Business Model Innovation – When is Decoupling Necessary?Taina Eriksson, Niina Nummela and Marikka Heikkilä7 Value-creating and Value-eroding Decoupling in B2B Platforms – A Multiple Case StudyMika Yrjölä, Malla Mattila, and Marjukka Mikkonen8 Critical Junctures and Their Role in Reconfiguration of Business Models and EcosystemsSvetla T. Marinova, Marin A. Marinov and Winfried Müller9 Tensions of Coopetition and Integration into the Multiplatform Ecosystems in Digital CareMahmoud Mohamed, Petri Ahokangas and Minna Pikkarainen10 Customer Orientation: The Case of Creating Value in EcosystemsMika Yrjölä, Aleksi Niittymies and Abdollah Mohammadparast Tabas11 How Global Virtual Teams Are Innovating the Business Models of MNEs and Higher Education InstitutionsErnesto Tavoletti12 Healthcare Ecosystems and Business Models Reconfiguration: Decoupling and Resilience in the Context of Data Driven Technologies: A Systematic Literature ReviewAnna Zukowicka-Surma, Magnus Holmén, Jeaneth Johansson and Svante Andersson13 IT Entrepreneur Resilience in Geopolitical TurbulenceLiubov Ermolaeva and Daria Klishevich14 Old-school Gender Values in a New Labour Model: A Case Study of Women’s Entrepreneurship in IsraelGuy Abutbul-Selinger, Anat Guy and Avi Shnider15 The Emergence of Open Banking and its ImplicationsSascha Struwe16 Trans-fur-able Resources? Strategic Responses to a Crisis in the Danish Mink Related EcosystemMichael S. Dahl, Louise Brøns Kringelum, Agnieszka Nowinska and Thomas Roslyng Olesen

Svetla T. Marinova is Professor of International Business and International Marketing and Head of the International Business Research Group at Aalborg University Business School, Aalborg University, Denmark. Marin A. Marinov is Professor of International Business at Aalborg University Business School, Aalborg University, Denmark.