The Co-evolution between Companies within E-Supply Chain Management in the Era of Digital Economy

Fast development of information and communication technology enables the transformation from traditional supply chain to e-supply chain. In this ever-transforming environment, effectiveness and efficiency of e-supply chain depend on the coherence between characteristics of the environment and relationships among companies. In order to analysis the relationship management among companies in concert with changes of the environment, this paper seeks to adopt a co-evolutionary perspective. By considering the e-supply chain as the ecosystem combined by business and technology ecosystem, a co-evolutionary framework is established to investigate the interactions among companies from both macro-layer and micro-layer. The logistic model is used to analysis the value creation produced in this system when individual company co-evolves with other companies. The co-evolutionary theoretical framework and modeling analysis in this paper discuss the interactions of companies in the e-supply chain, and explore the value creation for companies in the process of co-evolving.