Author(s)

Fang Yiling, Zhen Weili, Jing Qiaosong

Corresponding Author

Fang Yiling

Abstract

Digital platform ecosystems, which function as complex socio-technical systems that facilitate interactions between various actors through developing an IT architecture and governance regime, needs to develop and adopt to ensure long-term sustainability. Previous researches provide largely descriptive accounts of digital platform-based ecosystem evolution (DPE) outcome rather than the dynamic process. Against the background, this paper puts forward an integrated conceptualization of DPE as a complex dynamic process. Through a systematic literature review of previous studies, we induct a theoretical framework that explains how digital platform ecosystem evolve over time in repose to unpredicTable challenges. Our findings present the endogenous dynamic and exogenous dynamic influences how they co-evolution, then combine the Lenses for Theory to analyse the evolutionary dynamics. Overall, we contribute to conceptualize the digital platform ecosystem and enrich the theoretical connotation for the co-evolution of the business ecosystem.

Keywords

Digital platform ecosystem; Co-evolution; evolutionary dynamics