Imperial College London
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Professor Erkko Autio FBA

Business School

Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1991erkko.autio CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Rachel Jury +44 (0)20 7594 5926

 
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Location

 

388Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Dattee:2018:10.5465/amj.2015.0869,
author = {Dattee, B and Alexy, O and Autio, ET},
doi = {10.5465/amj.2015.0869},
journal = {Academy of Management Journal},
pages = {466--498},
title = {Maneuvering in poor visibility: how firms play the ecosystem game when uncertainty is high},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2015.0869},
volume = {61},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Innovation ecosystems are increasingly regarded as important vehicles to create and capture value from complex value propositions. While current literature assumes these value propositions can be known ex-ante and an appropriate ecosystem design derived from them, we focus instead on generative technological innovations that enable an unbounded range of potential value propositions, hence offering no clear guidance to firms. To illustrate our arguments, we inductively study two organizations, each attempting to create two novel ecosystems around new technological enablers deep in their industry architecture. We highlight how ecosystem creation in such conditions is a systemic process driven by coupled feedback loops, which organizations must try to control dynamically: firms first make the switch to creating the ecosystem following an external pull to narrow down the range of potential applications; then need to learn to keep up with ecosystem dynamics by roadmapping and preempting, while simultaneously enacting resonance. Dynamic control further entails counteracting the drifting away of the nascent ecosystem from the firm's idea of future value creation and the sliding of its intended control points for value capture. Our findings shed new light on strategy and control in emerging ecosystems, and provide guidance to managers on playing the ecosystem game.
AU  - Dattee,B
AU  - Alexy,O
AU  - Autio,ET
DO  - 10.5465/amj.2015.0869
EP  - 498
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 0001-4273
SP  - 466
TI  - Maneuvering in poor visibility: how firms play the ecosystem game when uncertainty is high
T2  - Academy of Management Journal
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2015.0869
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/48553
VL  - 61
ER  -
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