Digital Platform Ecosystems as Living Labs for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A Conceptual Model Proposal

The main idea of the paper is to combine modern research methods (as living labs that enable research in a real-life setting) with the new technological opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation development (as digital platforms) to search for innovative solutions, while addressing the sustainable development problems. Thus, the paper aims to explain how real value for society is created within digital platform ecosystems and how they employ to this end novel solutions that better address existing social problems. Consequently, it proposes a conceptual framework to research and develop sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation with the use of digital platforms. This research study takes a synthesizing conceptual approach that seeks to integrate the existing knowledge drawn on two major streams of research: living labs as a methodology and digital platform ecosystems to enrich the theory of sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation development. The paper contributes to the body of knowledge by proposing a novel conceptual model of digital platform ecosystems as living labs for sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation. The model depicts digital platform ecosystems examined as living labs and the implicit processes that include platform users in problem-solving and value-creation in real-life settings. The novelty of the model stems from framing these processes that capture the relationship between individuals and opportunities as the foundations of entrepreneurship and the relationship between the problem space and the solution space, where the opportunities occur.

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Conceptual Model of a Digital Platform for Cyber-Physical Management of a Modern Enterprises. Part 2. Digital Services

Mekhatronika Avtomatizatsiya Upravlenie ◽

10.17587/mau.20.387-397 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (7) ◽

pp. 387-397 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

V. I. Gorodetsky ◽

V. B. Laryukhin ◽

P. O. Skobelev

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Model ◽

Complex Adaptive System ◽

Multi Agent Systems ◽

Smart Services ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Leading Role ◽

Digital Ecosystem ◽

Complex Adaptive ◽

Platforms And Ecosystems

The paper proposes conceptual model of a digital platform for cyber-physical management of manufacturing enterprises in the upcoming era of Industry 5.0, characterized by the vision of any business, including industrial production or logistics, as a complex adaptive system built on fundamental principles of self-organization and evolution, as well as interaction of artificial intelligence systems and people. The first part discusses principles of building a digital platform that can support operation of an enterprise within Industry 5.0 as a digital ecosystem of smart services. This part of the paper proposes typing of vasic platform services, lists the minimum set of services of each type, and gives description of their functionality. It also substantiates the leading role of multi-agent systems as a basic software architecture and technology for developing applications of the digital eco-systems. The paper provides examples of digital platforms and ecosystems of smart services for management of cargo transportation of the Russian Railways on the principles of "uberisation", life cycle of complex technical products, as well as enterprises of the plant-growing industry. It is shown that results are applicable to modern industrial corporations and enterprises in industry and agriculture, logistics, design, consulting and service.

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Conceptual Model of a Digital Platform for Cyber-Physical Management of a Modern Enterprises Part 1. Digital Platform and Digital Ecosystem

Mekhatronika Avtomatizatsiya Upravlenie ◽

10.17587/mau.20.323-332 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (6) ◽

pp. 323-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

V. I. Gorodetsky ◽

V. B. Laryukhin ◽

P. O. Skobelev

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Autonomous Agents ◽

Complex Adaptive System ◽

Predictive Analytics ◽

Smart Services ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Digital Ecosystem

The paper proposes conceptual model of a digital platform for cyber-physical management of modern enterprises in the upcoming era of Industry 5.0. Unlike Industry 4.0, which focuses on automation of physical processes, Industry 5.0 is oriented on digitization of knowledge and automation of reasoning processes for creating artificial intelligence that is able to manage enterprises. This still emerging era will be characterized by the vision of any business, including industrial production or logistics, as a complex adaptive system built on fundamental principles of self-organization and evolution, as well as interaction of artificial intelligence systems and humans. The paper shows that implementation of such production and logistics management systems will require development of new models and decision-making methods based on knowledge and semantic information processing, integration of computational and communication components, accumulation of big data and its processing for predictive analytics, blockchain technologies for fixing mutual obligations of systems components in the for m of smar t contracts, as well as human-machine and software inter faces. Existing approaches to creation of digital platforms within the digital economy of Industry 4.0 and their limitations are analyzed. The concept of digital ecosystem is developed as an open, distributed, self-organized "system of systems" of smart services capable of coming up with solutions and automatically resolving conflicts through negotiations and concessions. The concept of the digital platform within Industry 5.0 is described, which will be able to support functioning of the digital ecosystem of "smart services" of cyberphysical management of both individual objects and enterprises of humans and robots, and in the future, industries of such enterprises — implemented using self-organizing autonomous agents at all levels.

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A Paradigmatic Analysis of Digital Application Marketplaces

Journal of Information Technology ◽

10.1057/jit.2015.16 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 198-208 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Ahmad Ghazawneh ◽

Ola Henfridsson

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

End Users ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Ideal Types ◽

Systems Research ◽

Information Systems Research ◽

Paradigmatic Analysis ◽

Platform Ecosystems ◽

Platforms And Ecosystems ◽

The Relationship

This paper offers a paradigmatic analysis of digital application marketplaces for advancing information systems research on digital platforms and ecosystems. We refer to the notion of digital application marketplace, colloquially called ‘appstores,’ as a platform component that offers a venue for exchanging applications between developers and end users belonging to a single or multiple ecosystems. Such marketplaces exhibit diversity in features and assumptions, and we propose that examining this diversity, and its ideal types, will help us to further understand the relationship between application marketplaces, platforms, and platform ecosystems. To this end, we generate a typology that distinguishes four kinds of digital application marketplaces: closed, censored, focused, and open marketplaces. The paper also offers implications for actors wishing to make informed decisions about their relationship to a particular digital application marketplace.

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Discourse on Corporeality and the Logic of Control in the Works of Contemporary post-Yugoslav Women Playwrights

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies ◽

10.25038/am.v0i18.296 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

Gabriela Abrasowicz

Keyword(s):

Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽

Real Life ◽

The Body ◽

Women Playwrights ◽

Life Activity ◽

Women's Bodies ◽

Female Authors ◽

Everyday Practices ◽

Social Actions ◽

The Relationship

The issue of corporeality is one of the dominant motifs in contemporary women’s playwriting in the countries formed after the collapse of Yugoslavia. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries women’s bodies function as a specific open register in their works, where real-life content is included. The body is also an instrument which detects the meanings of social actions and interactions. According to the authors – mainly from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro – the body becomes a constantly-transforming palimpsestic, multi-layered body-text which delivers information about the logic of control. The body-centric perspective here is connected with the problematization of the characters’ reactions to some mechanisms of normalization, classification, and increasing productivity of the bodies in their population. The changes in the configuration of control modes and everyday practices in some areas of women’s life activity are presented. The female authors, e.g.: Milena Bogavac, Maja Pelević (Serbia), Lada Kaštelan, Ivana Sajko (Croatia), Jasna Šamić, Elma Tataragić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Nataša Nelević (Montenegro), Simona Semenič (Slovenia) illustrate some rituals and transgressions concerning procreation, female visual representations and the body losing its fitness and becoming isolated. In their artistic descriptions the authors confirm the relationship between the cultural and psychological inscription of the female body and female difference in language and text. Article received: December 13, 2018; Article accepted: January 23, 2019; Pulbished online: April 15, 2019; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Abrasowicz, Gabriela. "Discourse on Corporeality and the Logic of Control in the Works of Contemporary post-Yugoslav Women Playwrights." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 18 (2019): 51–64. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i18.296

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ANALISIS HUBUNGAN ANTARA KEPUASAN PELANGGAN DAN LOYALITAS PELANGGAN TERHADAP KEINGINAN PEMBELIAN ULANG, STUDI KASUS DI UNIVERSITAS BUNDA MULIA

Business Management Journal ◽

10.30813/bmj.v5i1.660 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

YB Andre

Keyword(s):

Customer Satisfaction ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Customer Loyalty ◽

Consumer Satisfaction ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

The Body ◽

Repurchase Intention ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

The Relationship ◽

Students As Customers

<p>The purpose of this research is to obtain a better understanding of the relationship among customer satisfaction and customer loyalty to repurchase intention. One of the methods used in this paper is by surveying students (as customers) from 12 departements in Bunda Mulia University (UBM). The students have to fill in the questionnaires related to customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and repurchase intention concepts. A total of 232 students filled the questionnaires. The results support the conceptual model in demonstrating a strong relationship among customer satisfaction and customer loyalty to repurchase intention. One of the findings shows that the dimension of satisfaction does not directly support repuchase intention. This research adds to the body of knowledge related to customer satisfaction management.</p><p>Keywords : Consumer satisfaction, repurchase intention</p>

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INVESTIGATING THE INNOVATION IMPACTS OF USER-CENTRED AND PARTICIPATORY STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY EUROPEAN LIVING LABS

International Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1142/s1363919619500488 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (05) ◽

pp. 1950048 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

CLAUDIO DELL’ERA ◽

PAOLO LANDONI ◽

SARA JANE GONZALEZ

Keyword(s):

Participatory Design ◽

Design Research ◽

Real Life ◽

Performance Outcomes ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

User Behaviors ◽

Project Outcome ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Living Labs

The advantages of innovation strategies that are based on collaboration with users have been demonstrated by several studies, which have highlighted emerging shifts from a user-centred approach (in which the user is a subject) to a participatory one (in which the user is a partner). The Living Lab methodology, which is a design research methodology aimed at co-creating innovation through the involvement of aware users in a real-life setting, can provide new perspectives in the passage from user-centred to participatory design. In this paper, answers received by 92 Living Labs belonging to the European Network of Living Labs are used to (i) investigate the strategies adopted by Living Labs to involve users in their innovation processes and (ii) analyse the relationships between strategies and achieved innovation performance outcomes. The user-centred strategy positively impacts all innovation performance outcomes (e.g., time, cost, quality and go to market), but only time performance shows a significant difference between non-adopters and adopters. Observing user behaviors, capturing user insights and receiving user feedback positively impact the efficiency of innovation projects and allow them to be concluded in a timely manner. The participatory strategy shows that adopters are characterised by a significantly higher percentage of projects that are able to reach the market by moving from the research stage to the innovation stage. Practices such as co-design, collaboration through digital platforms and development of experience prototypes allow for the achievement of better results in terms of quality and, consequently, marketability of the project outcome, but reduce the efficiency of the innovation project in terms of time and cost.

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“They were having so much fun, so genuinely . . .”: K-pop fan online affect and corroborated authenticity

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444820941194 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 146144482094119

Author(s):

Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain

Keyword(s):

Real Life ◽

The Other ◽

Online Interaction ◽

Emotional Experiences ◽

The West ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Fan Communities ◽

The Social ◽

Digital platform ecosystems

Electronic Markets ◽

10.1007/s12525-019-00377-4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 87-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Andreas Hein ◽

Maximilian Schreieck ◽

Tobias Riasanow ◽

David Soto Setzke ◽

Manuel Wiesche ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Value Creation ◽

Autonomous Agents ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Digital Products ◽

Value Capture ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Research Areas ◽

Platform Ecosystems ◽

A Company

Abstract Digital platforms are an omnipresent phenomenon that challenges incumbents by changing how we consume and provide digital products and services. Whereas traditional firms create value within the boundaries of a company or a supply chain, digital platforms utilize an ecosystem of autonomous agents to co-create value. Scholars from various disciplines, such as economics, technology management, and information systems have taken different perspectives on digital platform ecosystems. In this Fundamentals article, we first synthesize research on digital platforms and digital platform ecosystems to provide a definition that integrates both concepts. Second, we use this definition to explain how different digital platform ecosystems vary according to three core building blocks: (1) platform ownership, (2) value-creating mechanisms, and (3) complementor autonomy. We conclude by giving an outlook on four overarching research areas that connect the building blocks: (1) technical properties and value creation; (2) complementor interaction with the ecosystem; (3) value capture; and (4) the make-or-join decision in digital platform ecosystems.

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Interactive Model of Disaster risk & Disaster management: The Egg Model

10.32592/ircmj.2020.22.8.100 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Disaster Management ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Risk Identification ◽

The Body ◽

Incident Management ◽

Risk Treatment ◽

Or Organization ◽

The Relationship

A conceptual model is always a suitable way to show the relationship between the different components of a process or among different processes. In the field of incident management, there are several models. However, there is almost no simple, natural, conceptual model to show the relationship between disaster risk management. In this article, a new model, which is called the Egg model, including the shell, the white (albumen) and the yellow (yolk) parts, is introduced. In which, risk management includes three steps. The first step is the assignment of a body, either a person, team or organization, as responsible (the resembling the shell). In the second step, the body does the assessment of the risk (resembling the white part). Risk assessment, on its own, includes risk identification, risk analysis, and risk evaluation. Finally, (resembling the yellow part), treatment of the risk(s) is begun which includes, prevention and mitigation, and preparedness before the disaster and, response and recovery after the disaster occurrence. Obviously, without an intact shell, the whole egg (albumen and yolk) will decay and all resources will be lost. Also without assessment of the risks, proper and effective management of the disaster is almost impossible. The third step of the risk management, the risk treatment, is in fact the disaster management. This simple model shows the relationship between risk management and risk treatment. Although this model may have oversimplified the process of Risk Management, it helps to create a unique overview and understanding for almost everyone.

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DIGITAL PLATFORMS AS A MEANS TO INCREAS THE PROFITABILITY OF INNOVATIVE BUSINESS PARTICIPANTS

Science and education: future development ◽

10.21661/r-530406 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Elena Evgenevna Panfilova ◽

Mariia Sergeevna Eroshina

Keyword(s):

Digital Economy ◽

Additive Technologies ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Reference Models ◽

The Creation ◽

The Relationship

The article discusses the creation of reference models of digital platforms for intersectoral interaction of agents in the digital economy. The problems of conducting transactions for innovative business participants on integrated platforms are identified. The relationship between the profitability of the organization operating within a digital platform and the structure of digital counterparts of products designed and manufactured on the basis of additive technologies is revealed.

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