TY - JOUR
T1 - Software ecosystems now and in the future
T2 - A definition, systematic literature review, and integration into the business and digital ecosystem literature
AU - Burström, Tommy
AU - Lahti, Tom
AU - Parida, Vinit
AU - Wartiovaara, Markus
AU - Wincent, Joakim
PY - 2022/11/10
Y1 - 2022/11/10
N2 - Business settings and ecosystems have in the past three decades been transformed by software utilization. It is being applied in several industries shaping innovation – platforms – and business characteristics, thus attracting ever more interest from both practitioners and researchers. During the last ten years, research on software ecosystems (SECOs) has expanded, and is strongly related to the development of digital ecosystems. This expansion has led to the need to review the status of software ecosystem research, and the present study provides a state-of-the-art literature review on the topic. We explain the connection between the relatively new research field of software ecosystems and the traditional streams of ecosystem research. This paper contributes novel definitions of software ecosystems, and software ecosystem configuration, and proposes a theoretical model illustrating the relationship between vital contingency categories and processes. We identify significant research gaps and present a future research agenda.
AB - Business settings and ecosystems have in the past three decades been transformed by software utilization. It is being applied in several industries shaping innovation – platforms – and business characteristics, thus attracting ever more interest from both practitioners and researchers. During the last ten years, research on software ecosystems (SECOs) has expanded, and is strongly related to the development of digital ecosystems. This expansion has led to the need to review the status of software ecosystem research, and the present study provides a state-of-the-art literature review on the topic. We explain the connection between the relatively new research field of software ecosystems and the traditional streams of ecosystem research. This paper contributes novel definitions of software ecosystems, and software ecosystem configuration, and proposes a theoretical model illustrating the relationship between vital contingency categories and processes. We identify significant research gaps and present a future research agenda.
KW - 512 Business and Management
KW - architecture
KW - business ecosystems (BEs)
KW - contingency factors
KW - orchestration
KW - review
KW - software ecosystems (SECOs)
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9945630
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141597564&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TEM.2022.3216633
DO - 10.1109/TEM.2022.3216633
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-9391
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
JF - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
ER -