Elena Plaksenkova

Elena is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. She received her Bachelor degree from the Moscow State University, MSc degree from Bocconi University, and PhD from HEC Paris.

Elena's research focuses on issues related to value creation and value capture in business ecosystems. She explores how competition over value capture and the nature of the underlying complementarities affects firm's strategies towards the key complements and how this, in turn, affects the evolution of the ecosystem. She looks at the how both for-profit and nonprofit actors may affect this evolution. In her research Elena uses formal models and empirical methods. In particular, she examines the context of the anti-HIV drug market, where the standard treatment is a multi-drug combination.

She also studies value creation and value capture in R&D alliances in biopharmaceutical industry using a novel methodology – a two-sided matching process.

Research interests

• Business ecosystems
• complements
• nonprofit actors
• value creation and value capture
• biform games