The Co-Evolution of Digital Ecosystems
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چکیده
Digital ecosystems continue to evolve, as new external APIs continue to enter into it. Not all new APIs, however, have the same fate: some are successfully connected with existing APIs and spark major changes in the ecosystem, while others are simply ignored. Particularly, some of the components end up playing a major role in shaping the structure of the ecosystem. To systematically explore what determines the fate of different APIs, we hypothesize how the network property and non-network property of external APIs affect the probability of the APIs becoming a part of the core in the structure of a digital ecosystem. For the empirical test, we used plug-in source code data collected from Wordpress.org from January 2004 to December 2014. Using a survival analysis, we found that external APIs as cores are more influential than components offered by a focal platform system in the growth of a digital ecosystem.
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