Ecosystem Legitimacy Emergence: A Collective Action View

Ecosystems—communities of interdependent yet hierarchically independent heterogeneous participants who collectively generate an ecosystem value proposition—often emerge through collective action, where ecosystem participants interact with each other and the external environment. When such organizati...

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Published in:Journal of management Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 515 - 541
Main Authors: Thomas, Llewellyn D. W., Ritala, Paavo
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.2022
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Collective action
Ecosystems
Legitimacy
Legitimation
Liability
Work environment
process
ecosystem identity
ecosystem
legitimacy
emergence
collective action
ISSN:0149-2063, 1557-1211
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Summary:Ecosystems—communities of interdependent yet hierarchically independent heterogeneous participants who collectively generate an ecosystem value proposition—often emerge through collective action, where ecosystem participants interact with each other and the external environment. When such organizational forms are emerging, they require legitimacy to overcome the “liability of newness.” Adopting a collective action lens and taking a legitimacy-as-process approach, we propose a process model of ecosystem collective action, where an orchestrator, complementors, users, and external actors together drive ecosystem legitimacy. We identify three key legitimation processes—discursive legitimation, performative legitimation, and ecosystem identity construction—and demonstrate how these three processes together facilitate the emergence of ecosystem legitimacy and reduce the liability of newness of emerging ecosystems.
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ISSN:0149-2063
1557-1211
DOI:10.1177/0149206320986617