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Emerging Problems in the Digital Business Ecosystem
Abstract: The current research and development in the ITC has opened new opportunities and threats for both large corporations and SMEs alike. Many SMEs see the new Digital Ecosystem as a new open frontier where they can enter, innovate and compete with large corporations on an equal footing. This paper examines the role of the large corporations (the keystones) in the digital ecosystem and presents arguments about the emergence of two major problems that if left unanswered will result in creation of major entry barriers for SMEs. It briefly examines the definition and role of the keystones in both the business and digital ecosystems, pointing to the historical tendency of large corporations to try to create entry barriers and hence creating monopolies.The current structure of the scale-free networks in digital ecosystems, if not changed, provides natural environment for the growth of a few super-nodes or hubs that can in time dominate the networks. Similarly, the current proposed frameworks: Business Transaction Protocol and Web Services transaction (WS-Atomic Transactions and WS-Business Activity) lay the foundation not only for the creation of future monopolies or oligopolies, but also for forcing the SMEs to lose their local autonomy.
Keywords: keystone, scale-free networks, service-oriented architecture, coordination, digital ecosystems
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