Structural Characteristics of Stakeholder Relationships and Value Chain Network in Data Exchange Ecosystem
Structural Characteristics of Stakeholder Relationships and Value Chain Network in Data Exchange Ecosystem
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10.1109/access.2021.3070017
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2021
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3.9
通讯作者：
Teruaki Hayashi;Gensei Ishimura;Y. Ohsawa
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作者：
Teruaki Hayashi;Gensei Ishimura;Y. Ohsawa
近年来，数据已被视为经济商品，并开始通过数据交换进入新的生态系统形式。越来越多的人期望数据交换将用于创造新的业务和经济价值，这需要对数据交换生态系统的整体结构和特征有很好的了解。然而，与其他知名的商业生态系统（如金融市场或服务生态系统）不同，数据交换生态系统还不成熟，生态系统中可观察到的交互非常有限。在这项研究中，我们提出了一个新的框架来描述关系和他们的互动作为以利益相关者为中心的价值链（SVC），通过关注利益相关者之间的互动，即，对数据业务感兴趣的业务参与者-作为生态系统的核心组件。我们调查了来自120个数据业务参与者的45个使用SVC的业务，并使用网络分析阐明了一些数据交换的业务结构，这是第一次对数据交换生态系统中利益相关者之间的数据中介业务关系进行全面的实证研究。我们发现，数据业务的集成网络由许多密集连接的集群和众多的低频利益相关者组成，并显示出分散的和分层的轴辐结构。研究结果表明，少数利益相关者垄断了与许多其他利益相关者的联系，并在生态系统中出现了利益相关者的隔离。我们的方法和结果为数据交换生态系统中的所有利益相关者以及那些考虑进入市场的人提供了重要的见解。
In recent years, data have been treated as economic goods, and have begun circulating into new forms of the ecosystem through data exchange. The increasing expectation that data exchange will be used to create new businesses and economic value requires a strong understanding of the overall structure and the characteristics of the data exchange ecosystem. However, unlike other well-known business ecosystems, such as the financial markets or service ecosystems, the data exchange ecosystem is immature and the observable interactions in the ecosystem are quite limited. In this study, we proposed a novel framework for describing the relationships and their interactions as the stakeholder-centric value chain (SVC) by focusing on the interactions among stakeholders, i.e., the business players who have an interest in the data business–as the core components of the ecosystem. We examined 45 businesses using SVC from 120 data business participants and elucidated some of the business structures with data exchange using network analysis, which was the first comprehensive empirical study on the data-mediated business relationships among stakeholders in the data exchange ecosystem. We found that the integrated network of data businesses consists of many densely connected clusters with numerous low-frequency stakeholders and shows the disassortative and hierarchical hub-and-spoke structure. The results suggest that a few stakeholders monopolize links with many others and that a segregation of stakeholders appears in the ecosystem. Our approach and the results provide the important insights for all stakeholders in the data exchange ecosystem and those who consider entering the market.