By integrating organizational theory and business ecosystem perspectives, authors propose a meta-theoretical construct to navigate diverse organizational forms amidst disruptive environments.
Authors
Anil Kumar Singh, FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India
Rajneesh Chuhan, FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India
Tarun Dhingra, Professor, Jindal School of Banking & Finance (JSBF), O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India
Summary
Strategic management theorists, organizational ecologists, organizational theorists, and ecosystem theorists deploy different perspectives to theorize, model, and analyze organizational forms. Organizational constructs, independent of the unitary or aggregate level, can be seen along the duality of social determinism and free will.
The four configurations of organizational forms, namely, system structure, strategic choice, natural selection, and collective action view, adapted from organizational theory literature, are modeled from the business ecosystem perspective. Disruptive forces in the environment warrant organizational forms that can withstand the disruption.
Deploying business ecosystems as an integrative organizational theory construct can provide meaningful insights in the form of a novel architecture that can consolidate multi-paradigmatic perspectives appropriate for all organizational forms. This study leverages the power of analogy, transverses the conceptual underpinning of the term business ecosystem, reveals the intricacies of firm and population behavior, and explains relationships across various organizational forms within the ecosystem construct.
Toward the end, the authors propose a business ecosystem as a multi-paradigmatic, meta-theoretical construct to map and navigate diverse organizational forms, thereby guiding the thoughts and actions of thinkers and practitioners in organizational theory.
Published by: International Studies of Management and Organization
To know more about the article, please click here.
