Business Ecosystem “Reliability”

This paper presents the concept of business ecosystems as a complex system, consisting of three levels of development. The analysis of business ecosystem reliability was done based on the probabilities of its elements to cooperate at suitable parameters. The analysis was based on Markov's Chains Theory and reflects the probability of crossing an item from one state to another in the business ecosystem. From this point of view a previously-developed conceptual model was used and a graph of functioning states of each element based on business ecosystems architecture will be provided. The main outcome of this research is to provide a framework for understanding the importance of actors’ involvement in business ecosystems processes.