Mapping the Literature on Ecosystem Coopetition: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1993-2021

In recent years, researchers have paid close attention to ecosystem coopetition. This paper extracted literature on ecosystem coopetition (1993-2021) from the Web of Science database and analyzed it with CiteSpace. We observed that: (1) The number of ecosystem coopetition literature keeps increasing overall, with a particularly pronounced trend after 2010. Studies are primarily published by institutions in developed countries such as the United States, France, Finland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. (2) Ecosystem coopetition research focuses on two major themes: the management of coopetition strategies and the development of new organizational models for innovation collaboration. Value co-creation and appropriation in ecosystems is an example of specific research topic. (3) Ecosystem coopetition research has evolved through three stages, from an initial emphasis on single-level coopetitive relationships to an emphasis on specific application contexts, with recent research focusing on multi-level coopetitive behaviors and relationships.