The ecosystem perspective on innovation and business are becoming critical for organizational innovation, but there is a lack of theoretical consistency concerning the terminology of innovation ecosystem. To remedy this research gap, we introduce the innovation ecosystem in the international business (IB) context and enrich the research about innovation ecosystems. To fulfill our research goals, we conducted a systematic literature review of articles published in ABS journals during the period 1991–2018. Based on a systematical review of a total of 100 articles, we identified thematic differences within the literature related to how culture influences innovation in the IB context (e.g. antecedent/driver, output and commercialization of innovation) and proposed the concept of an innovation ecosystem. In addition, our study also finds that cultural factors run through every link of the innovation ecosystem in the IB context, which lays out the future research agenda.

关于创新和业务的生态系统视角对于组织创新变得至关重要，但关于创新生态系统的术语缺乏理论一致性。为了弥补这一研究空白，我们在国际商业 (IB) 背景下引入了创新生态系统，并丰富了对创新生态系统的研究。为了实现我们的研究目标，我们对 1991-2018 年期间发表在 ABS 期刊上的文章进行了系统的文献回顾。基于对 100 篇文章的系统回顾，我们确定了与文化如何影响 IB 背景下的创新（例如，创新的前因/驱动因素、产出和商业化）相关的文献中的主题差异，并提出了创新生态系统的概念。此外，