Influencing Collaboration in Sustainable Business Ecosystems.

Nowadays, to address societal challenges, collaboration is more and more critical in order to survive in a world exposed to increasingly disruptive causes. In the business world, in particular, business ecosystems require sustainable collaboration to ensure more cohesive and resilient organisations when facing attacks/disruptive events. This article proposes a performance assessment and adjustment model (PAAM) to establish and analyse simulation scenarios based on real data provided by IT organisations collaborating in the same business ecosystem, to measure and influence collaboration, leading to a more sustainable collaborative business ecosystem. To validate the model, workshops were conducted with focus groups of top managers of the organisations who provided the data to validate PAAM. The achieved results are presented and discussed.