Evolutionary Competition in Platform Ecosystems

Intraplatform competition has received scant attention in prior studies, which predominantly study interplatform competition. We develop a middle-range theory of how complementarity between input control and a platform extension’s modularization—by inducing evolution—influences its performance in a platform market. Primary and archival data spanning five years from 342 Firefox extensions show that such complementarity fosters performance by accelerating an extension’s perpetual evolution.

• 저널Information Systems Research · 26(2) · 266–281
• 토픽Digital Platforms and Economics · Strategy and Management
• DOI10.1287/isre.2015.0573
• 저자Amrit Tiwana