Evolutionary Competition in Platform Ecosystems
Information Systems Research · 2015 · Volume 26 · Issue 2
Abstract
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.
Keywords
platforms, ecosystems, evolution, modularity, input control, platform governance, Garen, endogeneity, apps, platform extensions
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