Generic or Specialized? Dependence Asymmetry and PFI -- A Case Study of iPhone Innovation Ecosystem

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10.2991/ssmi-19.2019.72How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Innovation ecosystem; appropriability mechanism; dependence.

Abstract

This paper integrates the of Resource Dependence Theory and Profit from Innovation to explicate the determinants of how innovation profit distributed between focal firm and the complementary firms. The types of the complementary firms are divided into four new type--positive dependence, negative dependence, interdependence, limited dependence, according to the symmetry and strength between focal firms and complementary firms. The case study of iPhone ecosystem helps us figure out and reorganize the relationship between the dominant design, the appropriability mechanism and the complementary assets. As a result, in the industries which is in the post dominant paradigm era, the generic complementary enterprises with strong appropriability will evolve as a bottleneck of the ecosystem, therefor the generic firm will appropriate additional profit from other actors in the ecosystem.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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