企业生态机制的内容框架与演化模式——基于质性元分析的发现

Content Framework and Evolution Pattern of Corporate Ecological Mechanisms:Findings Based on Qualitative Meta-analysis

当前企业生态系统的研究重点仍在于突破其“隐喻的面纱”,挖掘其独特的运行原理。但现有文献面向不同的商业情境形成了不同的研究倾向,并不能表达出企业生态机制的全貌。同时鉴于当前研究仍以案例研究为主,基于质性元分析法,筛选出31篇生态系统研究的案例论文,通过结构化编码过程,整理出企业生态机制的完整要素构成,从要素间的逻辑关系中发现:(1)案例支持企业生态系统具有价值共创机制、资源竞合机制及惯例协调机制等三种生态机制;(2)三种生态机制具有相同的内容框架,均可从生态场域和生态行为两方面刻画;(3)三种生态机制的演化均具有复杂属性,表现出非线性迭代、自发性涌现及开放性适应的演化模式。研究结论为企业生态系统研究在一个比较完整的理论框架下发展提供了新线索。

Current research on corporate ecosystems still focuses on breaking through their metaphors and exploring their unique operating principles.However,the existing literature,oriented towards various business contexts,has formed different research tendencies,which do not fully capture the entire spectrum of corporate ecological mechanisms.Meanwhile,given that current research is still dominated by case studies,this paper uses qualitative meta-analysis to screen out 31 case papers of ecosystem research,and through a structured coding process,the complete elemental composition of the enterprise ecological mechanism is organized,and from the logical relationships between the elements,it is found that:(1)the case samples support that the corporate ecosystem has three ecological mechanisms,including those of value co-creation,practice coordination,and resource competition;(2)the three ecological mechanisms have the same content composition logic and can be portrayed in terms of ecological fields and ecological behaviors;(3)the evolution of the three ecological mechanisms has complex properties,which manifests the evolution pattern of nonlinear iteration,spontaneous emergence,and open adaptation.This paper provides new clues to the development of corporate ecosystem research within a more complete theoretical framework.