Abstract
The increasing connectivity provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) supports novel business opportunities for actors’ overlapping service systems. Therefore, the co-creative nature of IoT business needs to be further studied. This paper contributes to the understudied area of IoT ecosystem dynamics by reporting an empirical study on a European IoT initiative and describing different actor roles and activities in the IoT use cases, and their implications for IoT ecosystem value creation. The paper shows how IoT ecosystem actors may take the roles of Ideator, Designer, or Intermediary in different design layers, and, recommends this approach to better understand and describe ecosystem business models. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 51st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2018 |
| Publisher | Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) |
| Pages | 4954-4963 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-9981331-1-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Jan 2018 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Waikoloa Village, United States Duration: 3 Jan 2018 → 6 Jan 2018 Conference number: 51 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ |
Conference
| Conference | Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
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| Abbreviated title | HICSS |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Waikoloa Village |
| Period | 03/01/2018 → 06/01/2018 |
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Keywords
- Ecosystem
- Value co-creation
- Role
- Internet of Things
- Business model