How Platform Governance Changes when Customers Become Developers

Platform Ecosystems: How Developers Invert the Firm

For a period starting in 2015, Apple, Google, and Microsoft became the most valuable companies in the world. Each was marked by an external developer ecosystem. Anecdotally, at least, developers matter. Using a formal model of code spillovers, we show how a rising number of developers can invert the firm. That is, firms will choose to innovate using open external contracts in preference to clos...

How to become a professor in epidemiology?

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How Informal Control Modes affect Developers' Trust in a Platform Vendor and Platform Stickiness

Although IS literature is quite rich on analyzing control modes in interorganizational relationships, there exists quite sparse empirical work on the effects of control modes on the relationship between a platform vendor and thirdparty developers in software-based platform ecosystems. Drawing on IS control literature and trust theory, we conducted an online survey with 125 game developers of th...

When management agents become autonomous, how to ensure their reliability?

When and how should new therapies become routine clinical practice?

The process by which new therapies enter clinical practice is frequently suboptimal. Often, ideas for new therapies are generated by clinical observations or laboratory studies; therapies based on those ideas may enter clinical practice without any further scrutiny. As a consequence, some ineffective practices become widespread. This article proposes a six-stage protocol for the implementation ...