The resource-based view in business ecosystems: A perspective on the determinants of a valuable resource and capability

Business ecosystems are an important form of inter-organizational cooperation and potential driver of a company’s success. Strong ecosystems strike a balance between their actors’ cooperative value contribution and competitive value appropriation. However, our understanding of the value that an ecosystem actor’s contributed input (any resource and/or capability) adds to the ecosystem is so far limited. Building on a review of the resource-based...