关键词: 二次商业模式创新, 共演, 后发企业, 快速追赶, 阿里巴巴集团, secondary business-model innovation, co-evolution, latecomer firms, fast catch-up, Alibaba group

Abstract: the e-business enterprises from china successfully attained a fast catch-up with the leading ones from developed countries in the past decade through establishing their own local framework of technology and market. How can they achieve it in the specific context of china? A co-evolution model between the secondary business-model innovation and technological innovation could be explored in the case of Alibaba. The secondary business-model innovation evolves from the introduction of fundamental technologies, then co-evolves with the local technologies through the cycling of “secondary business-model innovation – market structure – competitive strategy – technological innovation – secondary business-model innovation”, and finally accelerates the development and catch-up of the local technologies through the three co-evolution phases of “fundamental technology introduction – indigenous technology innovation – emerging technology guidance”. This co-evolution model enriches the catch-up theory from a combined perspective of the secondary business-model innovation and technological innovation, having positive implications for innovation practices of late-comer firms.