Toward a Maturity Model for Digital Business Ecosystems from an IT perspective

The digital transformation affects longstanding business models and leads to competition not only between enterprises but also between supply chains and networks. The concept of digital business ecosystems (DBEs) allows enterprises to concentrate on network co-creation and co-evolution of bundled services and products across enterprise boundaries. This study investigates the status of existing DBEs and their maturity. We interviewed 28 experts, reviewed more than 7,108 publications, and derived a maturity model from the obtained results. This maturity model helps practitioners to identify opportunities for improvement in their collaboration within DBEs and help researchers to assess and compare the current maturity level of existing DBEs.