TY - CHAP

T1 - An empirically grounded ontology for analyzing IT-based interventions in business ecosystems

AU - Drews, Paul

AU - Schirmer, Ingrid

AU - Mumm, Stephan

AU - Morisse, Marcel

AU - Winkenwerder, Frank

N1 - Conference code: 20

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Enterprises have to continuously act in and adapt to altered environments. They have to compete and cooperate with an increasing number of actors in their business ecosystems. These actors and their interests, processes and IT need to be considered for strategy formulation, inter-organizational process optimization or large-scale projects aiming at changing whole parts of an ecosystem. While the concept of business ecosystems is generally applicable for these altered environments, it lacks the consideration of IT phenomena. The integration of IT related concepts from other approaches is hardly possible due to majordifferences in the underlying ontologies. Therefore, we conducted three case studies in different industries to develop an empirically grounded ontology for analyzing IT-based interventions in business ecosystems. In an iterative and inductive-deductive approach, we developed an ontology consisting of two generalperspectives (structural, dynamic) with seven concepts each.

AB - Enterprises have to continuously act in and adapt to altered environments. They have to compete and cooperate with an increasing number of actors in their business ecosystems. These actors and their interests, processes and IT need to be considered for strategy formulation, inter-organizational process optimization or large-scale projects aiming at changing whole parts of an ecosystem. While the concept of business ecosystems is generally applicable for these altered environments, it lacks the consideration of IT phenomena. The integration of IT related concepts from other approaches is hardly possible due to majordifferences in the underlying ontologies. Therefore, we conducted three case studies in different industries to develop an empirically grounded ontology for analyzing IT-based interventions in business ecosystems. In an iterative and inductive-deductive approach, we developed an ontology consisting of two generalperspectives (structural, dynamic) with seven concepts each.

KW - Business informatics

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-0-692-25320-5

T3 - Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

SP - 1

EP - 11

BT - Smart sustainability: the information systems opportunity : 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014)

PB - AIS eLibrary

CY - Georgia

T2 - Americas Conference on Information Systems - AMCIS 2014

Y2 - 7 August 2014 through 10 August 2014

ER -