The recent complex set of interactions between companies and industries can be viewed as a type of "ecosystem," given the dynamic environment and the diverse goals of each entity. This collection of twelve essays by contributors from the UK, the US, and Europe examine the "ecosystems" and the parties' participation in them, give analytical perspectives, and take an interdisciplinary look at linkages and antecedents. Their topics include collaborating with competitors, evolving an open ecosystem, building ecosystem support for global health innovations, setting an ecosystem's "clockspeed" perspective, figuring out how product architectures affect ecosystems, struggling with innovation, synchrony development, networking in Silicon Valley, marking the beginning and end of the port commodity chain, working towards a network perspective on organizational decline, and explaining the attacker's advantage. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)