Distributed Governance of a Complex Ecosystem: How R&D Consortia Orchestrate the Alzheimer’s Knowledge Ecosystem
研究了46个由企业、非营利组织和政府组成的研发联盟，发现三种无需集中控制即可协调生态系统的模式，对管理复杂生态系统有启发。
Orchestrating an ecosystem requires coordination to create value, but prior research has tended to emphasize centralized ecosystem control over solutions involving distributed governance. By studying multilateral public-private collaborations to develop scientific knowledge to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, we identify a new model of ecosystem control—indirect and distributed governance using R&D consortia. We report archival and interview data on 46 consortia with overlapping corporate, nonprofit, and governmental membership. We find three models of consortia that allow member organizations to jointly orchestrate an ecosystem without centralized control. We discuss the broader implications of this model for orchestrating ecosystems.