October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
5h 17m
English
The term ‘business ecosystem’ seems pervasive today, but it only appeared in the early 1990s, coined by James Moore in his article for Harvard Business Review, ‘Predators and prey: A new ecology of competition’.1 Keeping with the Darwinian title of the piece, Moore leaned heavily on metaphors from evolution and biology to describe the systems of support and reliance that emerge around organizations, primarily commercial ones.
Thirty years ago, this was a novel lens, emerging from the heyday of US business schools and analysts studying the powerful business networks of East Asia, and the emergence of similar, though less rigid, support networks that grew ...
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