Key Members' Impact on Ecosystem Niche Creation: An Empirical Study on Shanzhai Ecosystem

摘要

Keystones, dominators, government are key members in business ecosystem. This paper examines the impact of these key members on niche creation rate in shanzhai business ecosystem. By employing negative binomial regression, this paper analyzed the shanzhai business ecosystem with 9957 registered mobile-communication firms in Shenzhen between 1984-2011. The results show that, keystone company has significantly increasing positive impact on the founding rate of this mobile phone population, while the dominator's effect is decreasing; the technology patent population and the policy also have significantly positive impacts on the founding rate of the population.