A collaborative approach to resilient and antifragile business ecosystems

Turbulence and unexpected disruptive events are showing with an increasing frequency and growing impact, which represent major challenges for sustainability of businesses. Therefore, finding how organizations can strive and even improve or gain benefits in disruptive environment scenarios became a relevant research area, for which resilience and antifragility represent two significant approaches. This paper argues that collaboration in business ecosystems is a promising approach to cope with disruptions. A brief overview of existing strategies as potential building blocks for resilience and antifragility is presented. Then, in order to study the strategies that can better apply, a modelling and simulation framework based on multi-agents and system dynamics is introduced, and the main modelling issues are discussed considering the context of Industry 4.0.