This short paper explores the foundations of B2B platform partnership management. After a theoretical derivation of the terminology, the performance measurement practices of a B2B platform owner offering the two platforms A and B to industrial customers are identified based on qualitative...

This paper examines whether the geopolitical objective of technological sovereignty is attainable and enabled by entrepreneurial ecosystems, as both concepts aim to improve economic competitiveness. A qualitative single-case study of the Indian short-form video (SFV) market, which provides some...

The pharmaceutical industry has experienced a remarkable surge in "coopetition," wherein rival companies join forces to pursue shared objectives, leading to a dynamic business environment fraught with tensions resulting from the coexistence of strong, contradictory forces of competition and...

In this paper, a qualitative model is inductively developed describing a dynamic “policy mix” -system of innovation enabling and outbalancing dimensions for the deployment of narrow artificial intelligence (AI) in the manufacturing value chain. A literature review first identifies and...

Value networks represent administrative and managerial approaches to abstract reality by schematic modeling designs for noded interchange of goods and services between value absorbing – often coined as capturing – intentions or occurrences. Co-creation references absolute results stemming...

The research examines Saudi Arabia's foreign policy against the background of the Syrian conflict. It focuses in particular on religious and historical backgrounds, which are of great importance for understanding developments in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia's changing role in a region that has...

Theories of ecosystems in economic or business research are rarely considered from a perspective, in which these network constructs of inter-organisational relationships are influenced by policy initiatives and instruments – not just individual efforts of actors from within the ecosystem. In...

The purpose of this research is the development of theory on how industrial ecosystems can be driven by policy and government interventions, especially when motivated by the pursuit of “technological sovereignty” as political objective. Theoretical foundation of the research forms a...

The increasing governmental interest in fostering the Artificial Intelligence sector in Britain has rapidly increased; the United Kingdom has recognised AI’s significance and incorporated it into its policy frameworks. The UK’s Industrial Strategy framework of 2017 emphasises the need for...

In a swiftly evolving world of rapid and diffuse transformation, the modes and mechanisms of innovation are increasingly complex. A cooperation-competition binary has begun to play out in novel ecosystems, networks, and platforms as political and industrial alliances form. In adaptation to this...