TY - JOUR T1 - Who Inhabits a Business Ecosystem? The Technospecies as a Unifying Concept JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michael L. Weber A1 - Michael J. Hine KW - business ecosystem KW - business environment KW - complex adaptive systems KW - technospecies AB - Currently, many terms are used to describe business ecosystems and their inhabitants. These terms have meanings that can cause definitional confusion and an ambiguous level of analysis as to what constitutes a business ecosystem. To understand business ecosystem relationships, an unambiguous understanding of the ecosystem components is required. The importance of standardized terminology and clear definitions of these components has been recognized in the literature. From a managerial perspective, identifying the relationships a firm is situated in is valuable and useful information that can be practically applied. We propose a business ecosystem model anchored around interdependent technospecies similar to the biological model that many of the existing concepts are drawn from. Technospecies are unique entities based on their organizational routines, capabilities, and use of technology. This article will present an alternative formulation of the business ecosystem model with the aim of synthesizing the diverse terminology presently in use into a concise, common language. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/896 IS - 5 U1 - Carleton University Michael L. Weber is a PhD candidate in the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and he is the undergraduate lab coordinator in Carleton University's Department of Biology He holds a BScH degree in Biology and an MMS degree in Information Technology, also from Carleton University. His primary research interests are in food supply chain security, business ecosystems, and electronic communication and negotiation. He has published in journals including Group Decision and Negotiation and Electronic Markets. U2 - Carleton University Michael J. Hine is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His primary research interests are in online services, online reviews, health informatics and how individual human differences play out in computer-mediated work environments. In addition to BCom and MSc degrees, he holds a PhD in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University. He has published in journals including but not limited to, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Group Decision and Negotiation, and Electronic Markets. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Perceived Environmental Uncertainty for Startups: A Note on Entrepreneurship Research from an Indian Perspective JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Susmita Ghosh A1 - Bhaskar Bhowmick A1 - Kalyan Kumar Guin KW - business environment KW - emerging economies KW - India KW - startups KW - uncertainty AB - In an entrepreneurship environment, understanding uncertainty is critical to startups because it is directly related to the context of decision making. In an emerging country such as India, uncertainties are more predominant due to the very nature of the emerging country, which is characterized by an underdeveloped institutional setup, a lack of protection for legal and intellectual property rights, underdeveloped factor markets, and high transaction costs. In this article, a systematic review of the existing literature on environment and uncertainty in an entrepreneurial, emerging-economy context identifies a gap of a new scale for perceived environmental uncertainty. Three primary contributions are made by this research. First, a literature review for existing uncertainty scales and their evaluation in the context of emerging countries is provided. Second, the research identifies a gap in the uncertainty measurement literature that is relevant to emerging economies. Finally, this study proposes a future research scope that can bridge the identified gap by exploring the factors of uncertainty in emerging countries. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 4 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/820 IS - 8 U1 - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Susmita Ghosh is a Research Scholar at Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral degree in Entrepreneurship, with a research focus on uncertainties in decision making for startups. Her other current research interests include entrepreneurial business incubation and uncertainty in product development. U2 - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Bhaskar Bhowmick is an as Assistant Professor at Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad with a specialization in Business Policy. He has thirteen years of industry experience in sales and marketing. His research interests include strategy-sustenance-succession, leadership strategy, and uncertainty in product development, innovation, and entrepreneurship. U3 - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kalyan Kumar Guin is Dean and Professor at the Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and he is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His teaching interests cover marketing and operations management, and he has a special interest in quantitative modelling of strategic issues in management. ER -