An Approach to Digital Business Ecosystem based on process models

The Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) is an organizational approach which allows even competitive enterprises to cooperate each other. The industrial system is interested in the realization of such new approach and European policies promote such realizations. In fact there are already new DBE realizations in different production areas. Now it is necessary to put aside the operating realizations to formalize this new approach in order to build up a theory to ground the empirical experimentation on, and obtaining those evidences which can promote the acquisition of this approach in the current state and as a good practice for the enterprises of all sizes and of all productive areas. This work is a contribute to the formalization with the goal to understand how competitive enterprises with heterogeneous organisations and belonging to different areas, can coexist in a same DBE. The formalization proposed has a logical reading based on processes models. Thanks to the use of the process models it is possible to organise some tools which allow to carry out quickly platforms for DBE management and governance and to make this flexible to comply with the different operating modes foreseen by the management of the enterprises which participate to the DBE.