Evolutionary Competition in Platform Ecosystems

Amrit Tiwana ()
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Amrit Tiwana: University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602

Information Systems Research, 2015, vol. 26, issue 2, 266-281

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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