The evolution of the disruptive ecosystem: a framework integrating disruption, ecosystems, and business models

Abstract

Purpose: This article aims to understand the dynamics between disruptive innovations and innovation ecosystems, using disruption business models as a catalyst.

Design/methodology/approach: This study presents an integrative literature review and a theoretical framework in order to integrate the theories of disruptions and ecosystems.

Findings: The dynamics of disruptive innovation, within an ecosystem, as an essential driver of creating new markets. The effect of creative destruction from a disruption influences business models in a coopetitive dynamic that drives the ecosystem as a whole.

Research limitations/implications: Limited to theoretical research and suggested the application of the proposed model in an empirical study.

Practical implications: Understand the formation of new ecosystems based on the occurrence of a disruption as a way for organisations to prepare for the arrival of this new market.

Originality/value: The contribution of this study is based on joining the literature of disruptive innovation and innovation ecosystem, pointing to a theoretical framework and a flow of Evolution and Adaptation to the Disruptive Ecosystem that integrates this complex dynamic.