Collaborative Modelling and Visualization of Business Ecosystems: Insights from two Action Design Research Case Studies

Abstract

This thesis addresses challenges associated with analyzing a specific business environment of interest, which we refer to as business ecosystem, by providing a tool-supported iterative process for collaborative modeling and visualizing of these ecosystems. The developed and evaluated prototype provides interactive and tailored visualizations and interacts with a meta-model based information system that allows the continuous adaptation of the ecosystem model.