{"id":18821,"date":"2026-05-03T21:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finteqc.ca\/?post_type=finteqc_paper&#038;p=18821"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:22:41","slug":"15875","status":"publish","type":"finteqc_paper","link":"https:\/\/finteqc.ca\/index.php\/papers\/15875\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Industry Structure: Designing Competition in AI-Driven and Financialized Digital Ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital infrastructure markets increasingly function as financialized ecosystems in which algorithmic pricing systems, regulatory design, and platform orchestration co-determine competitive outcomes alongside traditional industry structure. Yet dominant strategic frameworks remain grounded in static structural assumptions that underperform in AI-mediated, institutionally engineered environments. This paper develops a theoretically integrated Adaptive Strategy Framework (ASF) to explain competition in regulated digital ecosystems, using Canada\u2019s mobile telecommunications sector (2019\u20132025) as a structured analytical case. Through conceptual synthesis of ecosystem theory, dynamic capabilities, digital competition scholarship, and regulatory political economy, the study identifies systematic blind spots in structure-based analysis. These are formalized in the BLINDS diagnostic. Building on this, the proposed ASF integrates dynamic capabilities, ecosystem orchestration, stakeholder integration, and algorithmic pricing capability as core drivers of competitive adaptation. The framework explains how firms compete through AI-enabled segmentation, embedded financing mechanisms, pricing architecture engineering, and regulatory positioning rather than through static price rivalry alone. By reframing competition as algorithmically mediated and institutionally co-produced, the paper contributes to emerging debates on digital market governance, fintech competition, and pro-competitive institutional design in financialized, AI-driven markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-18821","finteqc_paper","type-finteqc_paper","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finteqc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/finteqc_paper\/18821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finteqc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/finteqc_paper"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finteqc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/finteqc_paper"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finteqc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}