Contents Introduction.4 Chapter 1: Strategic enterprise related developments.5 Chapter 2: Positioning Business Services (BS comprise of F&A, HR, SCM, IT).6 2.1 Business Services.6 2.2 Business Services critique (Text be be described) .7 2.
3. Multisourcing (Text to be adjusted).7 Chapter 3: Literature review.9 3.1. Digital Business Ecosystems (text to be described) .9 3.2.
Resource Orchestration Theory (text to be adapted).9 3.3. Dynamic capabilities (text to be described) .10 Chapter 4: Development of hypothesis.11 4.1. Method for factors influencing business services.
11 4.2 Development of Hypothesis.12 Chapter 5: Quantitative Research.15 5.1 Method.15 5.1.1 Measurement Model.
15 5.1.2 Sampling strategy.15 5.2 Data Analysis and Results .16 5.2.1.
Context.16 5.2.2. Common Method Bias.17 5.2.3.
Structural Model Analysis.18 5.2.4. Mediation and Moderation Effects.18 5.3. Discussion .
21 5.4. Conclusions.21 Chapter 6: Business Services Configurations.23 6.1 Research methodology.23 6.1.
1. A configurational approach.23 6.1.2. Measurement model, sample selection and data collection.23 6.2 Analysis.
24 6.2.1. Calibration.24 6.2.2. Necessary and sufficiency analysis .
24 6.2.3. Truth-table.24 6.2.4. Solution sets.
25 6.3. Results.25 6.3.1. Illustration of the fsQCA results.25 3 6.
3.2. Analysis of sufficiency for business services implementation.25 6.4. Discussion .27 6.5.
Theoretical implications .28 6.6. Practical implications .28 6.7. Conclusions.29 6.
8. Limitations and future research.29 Chapter 7: Case study Decentral organizational structure .31 Chapter 8: Case study organizational structure.32 Chapter 9: Case study federated organizational structure .33 Chapter 10: Cross case study .34 Chapter 11: Conclusions, limitations.35 Chapter 12: Outlook: The future of orchestrating a digital enterprise ecosystem.
36 Appendix A: Research methodology.37 Appendix B: Overview of Interviewees, interview excerpts.38 Appendix C: Interview questions .39 Appendix D: Survey questions (cover letter, glossary, questionnaire) .40 References @to be further updated.44.