Connecting the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems
Summary. Digital innovation ecosystems bring together diverse autonomous actors across organizational boundaries to create innovations of significant social and economic value. This paper develops an information ecology theory explaining how digital technologies integrate the efforts of independent parties into coherent wholes. The theory identifies key functions digital technologies serve in providing information to support interactions and tasks across ecosystems of varying scales, offering insights into managing part-whole relations and multilevel interactions.
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Wang, P.. (2021). Connecting the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems. MIS Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.25300/misq/2021/15864
Wang, Ping. “Connecting the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems.” MIS Quarterly, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25300/misq/2021/15864.
Wang, Ping. 2021. “Connecting the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems.” MIS Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.25300/misq/2021/15864.
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journal = {MIS Quarterly},
year = {2021},
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- DOI
- 10.25300/misq/2021/15864
- Countries
- United States
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- North America
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- innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-28