Analysis of the Evolution of Enterprise Strategic Network: From an Ecological Perspective

As a complex system, the strategic network has many similar attributes as the natural ecological system. Drawing lessons from theories and models of ecology, this paper researches on eco-relationship among enterprises, and concludes that the main eco-relationships in the midst of strategic network nodes are cooperation, cooperative competition, and co-existence. At the same time, according to different node relationships, this paper builds up corresponding eco-evolutionary models for the strategic network. By analyzing the models, we get the conditions under which the strategic network nodes achieve stable equilibrium in different inter-node-relationships. The achievement helps us to have a better understanding of the principles in the process of strategic network evolution, sharpening the overall competitive edge of the system.