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标题：How to Create a Software Ecosystem? A Partnership Meta-Model and Strategic Patterns
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作者：Ítalo Belo ; Carina Alves
期刊名称：Information
电子版ISSN：2078-2489
出版年度：2021
卷号：12
期号：6
页码：240
DOI：10.3390/info12060240
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Large keystone organizations use partnership models to manage their software ecosystem partners. Although several partnership models have been developed by platform owners, smaller companies willing to create a new ecosystem may experience difficulties to define the appropriate features of partnership models when switching from an independent software product to an ecosystem. This study proposes a partnership meta-model and four strategic patterns to operationalize it. We adopted the Design Science Research (DSR) method. The partnership meta-model was built in the first cycle of DSR, using a Systematic Mapping Study, and validated through case studies of SAP, Eclipse, and Microsoft Azure ecosystems. In the second cycle of DSR, the strategic patterns were defined through a Multivocal Literature Review and validated by using interviews with professionals. The meta-model presents the key characteristics to define partnership models for emerging software ecosystems. The strategic patterns aim to operationalize the meta-model and, consequently, assist the keystone in defining the features that the partnership model will have and select suitable strategies. The meta-model and the strategic patterns help managers creating and evolving software ecosystems from a software product considering the impact of that transition on the partnership model.
关键词：software ecosystems; partnership models; meta-model; strategic patterns software ecosystems ; partnership models ; meta-model ; strategic patterns