企业管理系学术讲座系列：2022（6）

时间：2022年10月9日（周日） 13:30-15:00

地点：史带楼410室

主持人：卫田教授

主题： Bricks Without Straw: How Resource-constrained Firms Transform Their Roles To Gain an Advantage in Ecosystems

主讲嘉宾： 石先蔚 博士助理教授上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院组织管理系

嘉宾简介：

石先蔚，清华大学学士(2013)，英国剑桥大学硕士(2014)和博士(2019)，曾于2018-2019学年任伦敦帝国理工商学院创新创业系博士后研究员，现任上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院组织管理系助理教授。研究兴趣聚焦在企业和区域的创新与创业生态系统的演化机制、治理模式及竞合关系，主要使用质性案例研究方法。论文已发表在 Research Policy, Management and Organization Review, Small Business Economics等刊物。曾在国际管理学学术会议上获得过多项最佳论文奖励，如战略管理学会(SMS)和欧洲管理学会(EURAM)的最佳论文奖和最佳博士生论文最终提名奖。主持国家自然科学基金青年项目和教育部人文社科青年项目，获得上海市浦江人才计划和上海市晨光计划资助。

摘要：

While superior supply-side resources can lead to a competitive advantage, we know less about how resource-poor organizations become competitive, in particular through leveraging the demand side. Although studies have explored how demand-side value is captured by focal firms through cultivating ecosystems, less attention is accorded to resource-constrained complementors that, unlike focal firms, lack architectural control to set the rules for extracting value. How do such complementors make up for the lack of both supply-side resources and architectural control to gain an advantage? We conducted a longitudinal study of Xiaomi, launched in 2010 as a smartphone software complementor in the Android ecosystem that created a derivative ecosystem to gain architectural control over its offerings, while remaining a complementor within Android. We show how a resource-disadvantaged firm deploys demand-driven strategies to garner supply-side resources by onboarding reputable firms. We extend a “demand-side” view to explain how firms with mundane resources leverage underserved users to co-create value and then use “demand pull” to mobilize key supply-side resources. This complements supply-side mechanisms of value creation through deploying firm-specific or inter-firm resources. Finally, we propose a distributed agency view of an evolving ecosystem structure – shaped not just by focal firms, but also by resource-disadvantaged complementors.