How Supply Chain Digitalization Accelerates the Evolution of Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem—A Case Study of JD Auto
In the context of digitalization,the entrepreneurial environment for businesses has undergone dramatic changes.Companies are breaking through the constraints of traditional entrepreneurial ecosystem by relying on supply chain digitalization,interacting and alternating with digital ecosystem,which has currently formed digital entrepreneurial ecosystem.Existing research lacks in-depth analysis of the influence mechanism between supply chain digitalization and digital entrepreneurial ecosystem.Based on the theory of ecosystem succession,this article uses JD Auto's supply chain digitalization as an example to conduct a case study focusing on two specific questions:"what businesses do"and"how they do it".The research results show that supply chain digitalization satisfies the development needs of different entrepreneurial ecosystem stages in an interactive and progressive manner.Supply chain digitalization has given rise to digital entrepreneurial ecosystems,which connect different links and enterprises in the supply chain from points,lines,to surfaces,with related entities coexisting with the ecosystem.The formation of a digital entrepreneurial ecosystem is a long-term process that cannot be achieved overnight.It requires the succession of independent,spreading,and integration stages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem before it can be formed.