Symbiotic Strategy and Organizational Growth in Complex Business Ecosystems

This book addresses the growth ceiling confronting incumbent firms mired in stock-market saturation and technological disruption and explores how to pivot from a "zero-sum competitive logic" to a "logic of ecological co-growth."

This book addresses the growth ceiling confronting incumbent firms mired in stock-market saturation and technological disruption and explores how to pivot from a "zero-sum competitive logic" to a "logic of ecological co-growth." Its distinctiveness lies in moving beyond conventional strategic frameworks: it reconceives the external environment as a three-dimensional ecological space defined by reach, richness, and rejuvenation; sets out three basic types of symbiotic strategy and four modes of implementation; and introduces an original value co-creation formula incorporating symbiotic emergent value (O), a VCEE four-dimensional model, and an AI-native pathway for the evolution of human–machine organizations—offering a new theoretical paradigm for commercial civilization in the digital-intelligent and AI era. The book serves both scholars and doctoral students in strategic management seeking to extend the research frontier and executives and practitioners navigating transformation. Readers gain not only an ecological worldview that breaks cognitive boundaries, but also a practical toolkit comprising the "five core capabilities" and the "ecological-niche potential scorecard," equipping organizations to transcend involution and achieve adaptive, exponential carbon–silicon growth.