Crafting strategic responses to ecosystem dynamics in manufacturing
Ates, Aylin and Paton, Steve and Sminia, Harry and Smith, Marisa (2023) Crafting strategic responses to ecosystem dynamics in manufacturing. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 194. 122727. ISSN 0040-1625 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122727)
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Abstract
This research goes beyond the dyadic view of co-opetition in supply chains and seeks to explore how firms that act as suppliers in a dynamic manufacturing ecosystem establish and sustain their strategic position. We interviewed 31 senior managers in seven firms that were identified by a committee representing government and academia as occupying various advanced manufacturing ecosystems. We argue that as actors within a manufacturing ecosystem interact overt time to co-create the overall product-service offerings, new relationships may be formed, and existing connections may be dissolved, giving rise to three co-opetition dynamics at the ecosystem level - capability configuration, value appropriation, and network governance. Our analysis unveiled eighteen operational tactics that suppliers deploy which combine to produce nine strategic responses that allow them to sustain their position within manufacturing ecosystems. Specifically, we discuss the role of suppliers in manufacturing ecosystems and capture the relationship between ecosystem dynamics and the strategic responses as they accommodate co-opetition. This research indicates that ecosystem performance is essentially a dynamic effort, which is simultaneously collective and distributed. Thus, policymakers should avoid carrying out analysis based on overly linear and single industry conceptualisations of manufacturing value networks.
ORCID iDs
Ates, Aylin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4072-5519, Paton, Steve ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7307-9333, Sminia, Harry and Smith, Marisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1718-2122;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 86015 Dates: DateEvent1 September 2023Published3 July 2023Published Online22 June 2023AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
Strathclyde Business School > Management ScienceDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 03 Jul 2023 15:11 Last modified: 01 Sep 2024 01:42 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86015