The document summarizes notes from a research symposium on ecosystems in management. It lists potential research questions within the area of ecosystem research, including how ecosystems emerge and evolve. It also outlines relevant theories for ecosystem research, such as network theories and complexity theory. The document discusses research designs and methodologies that could be applied to ecosystem research, including agent-based modeling, experiments, and action research. Finally, it provides references presented at the symposium related to ecosystem topics.

1. ECOSYSTEMS IN MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH
SYMPOSIUM NOTES
SPONSORS: INN, STR

2. SYMPOSIUM FACILITATORS
Annabelle Gawer
 University of Surrey
Laurent Scaringella
 Rennes Business School
Yongjiang Shi
 University of Cambridge
Agnieszka Radziwon
 University of Aarhus
Ke Rong
 Tsinghua University
@AgRadziwon
@AnnabelleGawer
r@tsinghua.edu.cn
ys@eng.cam.ac.uk
Laurent Scaringella

3. TO BE FOUND HERE*
1. Research Questions within ecosystem research
2. Theory/concepts inspiring for ecosystem research
3. Research design/methodology interesting for application in ecosystem research
4. Connections to other research fields
5. References to topics discussed during the Symposium
*The material collected in this document is an output of the discussions between all
symposium participants allocated to three roundtables.

4.  How entrepreneur ecosystems borrow from other contexts business ecosystem?
 How ecosystem emerge (Is it a natural organic growth)?
 How do the systems evolve?
 How could we address multilevel analysis?
 How can policy enhance the emergence of efficient ecosystems?
 How to address the complexity?
 What is (business) ecosystem?
 What's the difference between supply chain/strategic alliance?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS WITHIN ECOSYSTEM
RESEARCH

5.  Who define ecosystem objectives, mission, vision?
 How do we measure the success of the ecosystem?
 Which facilitator tools could allow building more efficient ecosystems?
 How supply base in a sustainable transition will evolve?
 How can policy makers steer ecosystems with specific actions?
 To what extent is the ecosystem perspective necessary/helpful?
 How do firms adapt to digitalization (in the context of ecosystem digitalization)?
 How do the A.I. solutions effect value chains/business networks?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS WITHIN ECOSYSTEM
RESEARCH

6.  Network theories,
 Regional studies, innovation systems
 Complex adaptive systems
 Complexity theory
 Systems dynamics
 Resilience concept (external shocks)
 Niche construction (biology)
 Sociotechnical systems
THEORY/CONCEPTS INSPIRING FOR ECOSYSTEM
RESEARCH
 Evolutionary theory- multilevel
 Cultural (co)evolution and multilevel
selection
 Business models,
 Public procurement for innovation
 Circular economy,
 Strategic networks,
 Inter- organizational relationships,
 Digital Infrastructure

7.  Topic modeling, machine learning, quantitative data, clustering of documents, raising topics, R text
mining, bibliometrics, side space
 AI to developed tools, Python, Iranotek based on R, clustering data semantically, Atlas -coding and then
applying quantitative methods
 Agent based modeling, deepen the analysis
 Experiments
 Action research, sense making
 Computational experiments, agent based modelling (focus on the knowledge flows), interventions and
complex systems (bad case scenarios),
 Tools to scrap data from social media (API based, challenging after GDPR introduction)
RESEARCH DESIGN/METHODOLOGY
INTERESTING FOR APPLICATION IN ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH

8.  Cultural evolution
 Cybernetics
CONNECTIONS TO OTHER RESEARCH
FIELDS

9. 1. Topic Modelling in Management Research: Rendering new theory from textual data Timothy Hannigan, Richard
Franciscus Johannes Haans, Keyvan Vakili, Hovig Tchalian, Vern Glaser, Milo Wang, Sarah Kaplan and P. Devereaux
Jennings, https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/annals.2017.0099
2. Text Mining in Organizational Research Vladimer B. Kobayashi, Stefan T. Mol, Hannah A. Berkers, Gabor Kismiho and
Deanne N. Den Hartog, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1094428117722619
3. Text Classification for Organizational Researchers: A Tutorial Vladimer B. Kobayashi, Stefan T. Mol, Hannah A.
Berkers, Gabor Kismiho and Deanne N. Den Hartog https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1094428117719322
4. From bounded morality to consumer social responsibility: A transdisciplinary approach to socially responsible
consumption and its obstacles Schlaile, Michael P., Katharina Klein, and Wolfgang Böck.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-016-3096-8
5. It’sa match! Simulating compatibility-based learning in a network of networks Schlaile, Michael P., Johannes
Zeman, and Matthias Mueller. https://read.qxmd.com/read/30613126/it-s-a-match-simulating-compatibility-based-learning-
in-a-network-of-networks
REFERENCES TO TOPICS DISCUSSED DURING THE
SYMPOSIUM

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