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    The Business Ecosystem Life Cycle and Its Phase-Ending Status

    Learning from the three cases, by combining the common features of each phase, this chapter is to develop the typical life cycle of a business ecosystem. Moore’s life cycle was mainly developed from a stable P...

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    Introduction

    The mobile phone industry has experienced dramatic changes in the last five years. In the West, while Apple has dominated the industry and Samsung has risen in popularity, previously established players such a...

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    Conclusion and Discussion

    This chapter concludes the book by summarising the research findings, discussing their theoretical and practical implications, and suggesting future research directions as below:

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    Research Design

    This chapter has two aims:

  7. to discuss the key research framework and research questions;

  8. to develop the appropriate research...

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    Intel Re-Enters the Mobile Computing Business Ecosystem

    Intel is an IDM (Integrated Device Manufacturer) company and is the top player in the semiconductor industry. Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, based in Santa Clara, California. Intel mostly focused on the c...

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    ARM Nurtures the Business Ecosystem from the Beginning

    ARM is the world’s leading semiconductor IP (intellectual property) supplier. IP1 is designed to generate a specific function, which is equivalent to the heart of semiconductor chips. ARM has offered the IP licen...

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    MTK Enhances the Business Ecosystem Efficiency

    MediaTek (MTK), founded in 1997,1 was a leading IC design company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions. The company was a market leader and well known for its single-chip solutions for mob...

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    Business Ecosystem Configuration Pattern

    This chapter categorises the different configuration patterns of business ecosystems through the data gathered from exploratory and main cases. The outcome of this chapter focuses on the following objectives: ...

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    Industrial Challenges

    By studying exploratory cases in the mobile computing industry, this chapter seeks to explore and discuss emerging industrial issues with which the business ecosystem research is booming.

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    Business Ecosystem Nurturing Process

    The five-phase business ecosystem life cycle (BELC) has been developed as well as the ecosystems’ construct and configuration patterns along the life cycle. This chapter especially addresses the question of ho...

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    Literature Review

    This chapter will re-examine how the relevant manufacturing system theories tackle the emerging industrial challenges: uncertainty and interoperability which identify the research gaps — the potential and dema...

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    Business Ecosystem Constructive Elements

    As learned from the review of existing literature, the constructs of a business ecosystem should be addressed further as the system could be understood through exploring its constructive elements (Von Bertalan...

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