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Actors in the Emerging Internet of Things Ecosystems

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  • Seppo Leminen

    (Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Espoo, Finland & School of Business, Aalto University, Finland)

  • Mervi Rajahonka

    (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)

  • Mika Westerlund

    (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

Abstract

This study investigates actors in the ecosystems of the Internet of Things (IoT). Previous research suggests that unstructured ecosystems make one of the greatest challenges for creating business models for the IoT. The present study concludes four contributions. First, the study reviews literature to develop a framework for role mechanisms in ecosystems and applies the framework to analyse data from fifteen interviews in six cases. Second, it identifies four diverse actor roles in IoT ecosystems: butterfly, ant and greenfly, spider, and the swarm of bees. Third, the study shows how actors take and make different roles in four emerging IoT ecosystems; product-, company-, industry-, and peer to peer ecosystems, which are structured in accordance with the identified actors' role behavior. Fourth, it suggests a new role pattern, role replication, where companies replicate their value designs and networks to other contexts.

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  • Seppo Leminen & Mervi Rajahonka & Mika Westerlund, 2017. "Actors in the Emerging Internet of Things Ecosystems," International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA), IGI Global, vol. 9(1), pages 57-75, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jesma0:v:9:y:2017:i:1:p:57-75
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    1. Fumihiko Isada & Yuriko Isada, 2018. "Network Analysis of Innovation in the Internet of Things," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 16(2), pages 216-226.
    2. Brea, Edgar, 2023. "A framework for mapping actor roles and their innovation potential in digital ecosystems," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    3. Leminen, Seppo & Rajahonka, Mervi & Wendelin, Robert & Westerlund, Mika & Nyström, Anna-Greta, 2022. "Autonomous vehicle solutions and their digital servitization business models," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 185(C).
    4. Miehé, Lucas & Palmié, Maximilian & Oghazi, Pejvak, 2023. "Connection successfully established: How complementors use connectivity technologies to join existing ecosystems – Four archetype strategies from the mobility sector," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 122(C).

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