Incentive alignment in ecosystems (Chatain & Plaksenkova, 2025) | FT50 SMJ

English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:18:54Hindi Podcast Start at 00:44:38Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️ Where ideas sharpen. Where evidence sings. Where strategy meets the street. 🚦Today, we’re unpacking a fresh gem 📘 “Incentive alignment in ecosystems: The role of complementarity types and multi‐sided bargaining” by Olivier Chatain and Elena Plaksenkova, published online on 15 September 2025 in the prestigious Strategic Management Journal—an FT50 journal—published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 🏛️✨Ecosystems rise when incentives align. They stall when they don’t. Simple. Then complex. In this study, multi-sided bargaining bends alignment in surprising ways, and the type of complementarity makes all the difference. 🔗Multiplicative complementarities? Alignment is typically weak.Additive? Different story, different stakes.Weakest-link? It can snap tight—or snap apart—depending on who’s lagging. 🧩And those starting functionality levels? They matter more than you think. A nudge here. A gap there. Value at risk—or value unlocked. 🚀If you’re a manager, architect, or ecosystem strategist, this is a diagnostic kit: what to look for, where alignment hides, and how much value might be slipping through the cracks. 🧠📈Before we dive in, tap follow and subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify 🔔, and hit up our YouTube home, Weekend Researcher ▶️. We’re also available on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast. And say hi in the chat 💬—tell us where you’re listening from!Now, here’s the spark: as complementarity types and bargaining collide, what hidden levers decide whether partners pull together—or pull apart—and how would your ecosystem look if you mapped those levers today? 🤔 Big thanks to Olivier Chatain, Elena Plaksenkova, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. for this outstanding contribution.ReferenceChatain, O., & Plaksenkova, E. (2025). Incentive alignment in ecosystems: The role of complementarity types and multi-sided bargaining. Strategic Management Journal, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.70012‌‌Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Connect over linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/