Research on industrial organization in the regional industrial ecosystem: Interactive co-evolution of enterprises

Based on ecological perspective, correlative enterprises in the same region constitute a regional industrial ecosystem. Analysis on industrial organization of the regional industrial ecosystem focuses mainly on interactive co-evolution of these correlative enterprises. This paper considers that the modes of interactive co-evolution of enterprises include reciprocal cooperation, adherent dependence and vehement competition, according to the analogy between operation of organizations in the economic system and species activities in the natural ecosystem. By qualitative analysis of differential equation and numerical simulation for these different modes of interactive co-evolution between enterprises, the paper demonstrates that reciprocal cooperation is beneficial to both sides of enterprises, adherent dependence is helpful to growth of small enterprises, and one-side-benefit vehement competition is contributed to development of large enterprises. In the end, results further reveal the mechanism of interactive co-evolution among enterprises and help forecast the evolution about industrial organization in the regional industrial ecosystem.