Abstract: With the development of open innovation paradigm and innovation ecosystem, the enterprise-centered open innovation ecosystem (OIE) becomes the new trend of theory research and industry development. This paper conducts an exploratory multi-case study to explore the formation mechanism of different types of construction logic of the enterprise-centered OIE. The case selected comes from the innovation ecosystem of the locomotive innovation ecosystem led by CRRC Dalian, the bearing innovation ecosystem led by ZWZ Group, and the construction machinery innovation ecosystem led by Sany. This paper finds that the construction logic of the enterprise-centered OIE includes opportunity logic, leverage logic and position logic. Their process mechanism of “organizational goal - core development path-strategic action method” is as follows: the opportunity logic has the process mechanism of “identify opportunities to achieve market capture-rapid action-goal-oriented improvisational behavior”; the leverage logic has the process mechanism of “identify and utilize superior resources to achieve transformational upgrade-build a combination of superior resources and complementary resources-collect and supplement complementary resources”; the position logic has the process mechanism of “determine enterprise positioning to achieve differential development-meet the needs of users-piecing together viable resources for a coordinated response”. The three types of construction logic have common characteristics including their organizational goal of differentiating from competitors; the core development path is featured by externality or focusing on external resources; the strategic action method is essentially about jointly using both internal and external resources. These construction logics are influenced by different combinations of 14 kinds of concrete manifestation characteristics of the construction motivation on six hierarchies of the external context and the internal context.

Key words: open innovation ecosystem, enterprise-centered, construction logic, case study