Engaging firms and populations in ecosystem web: Deploying a multi-paradigmatic construct to resolve pluralism in organizational theory

Singh, Anil Kumar, Chauhan, Rajneesh and Dhingra, Tarun (2024) Engaging firms and populations in ecosystem web: Deploying a multi-paradigmatic construct to resolve pluralism in organizational theory. International Studies of Management & Organization. pp. 1-33. ISSN 0020-8825 (In Press)

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Ecosystems | new organizational forms | organizational ecology | organizational theory
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Economics, Econometrics and Finance > Banking and Finance
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Banking & Finance
Depositing User: Dharmveer Modi
Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2024 05:40
Last Modified: 03 Dec 2024 05:40
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2024.2421658
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/8853

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