Customer behavior and adoption · Longitudinal empirical analysis of app-developer performance in iOS and Android; explanatory variables were ecosystem complexity, platform-generational transitions and developer ecosystem-specific experience, with persistence of superior performance as outcome.
Sustaining Superior Performance in Business Ecosystems: Evidence from Application Software Developers in the iOS and Android Smartphone Ecosystems
Rahul Kapoor, Shiva Agarwal (2017). Sustaining Superior Performance in Business Ecosystems: Evidence from Application Software Developers in the iOS and Android Smartphone Ecosystems. Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2017.1122
Plain-English take
Higher ecosystem complexity helped developers sustain superior performance, especially experienced firms; platform transitions made sustained superiority harder, with the adverse effect amplified by complexity.
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Longitudinal empirical analysis of app-developer performance in iOS and Android; explanatory variables were ecosystem complexity, platform-generational transitions and developer ecosystem-specific experience, with persistence of superior performance as outcome.
Application software developers in Apple's iOS and Google's Android smartphone ecosystems.
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Research question
What the authors investigated
What does sustaining superior performance in business ecosystems: evidence from application software developers in the ios and android smartphone ecosystems show about customer behavior or marketing outcomes?
Design
Longitudinal empirical analysis of app-developer performance in iOS and Android; explanatory variables were ecosystem complexity, platform-generational transitions and developer ecosystem-specific experience, with persistence of superior performance as outcome.
Sample and setting
Application software developers in Apple's iOS and Google's Android smartphone ecosystems.
Reported result
What the study found
Higher ecosystem complexity helped developers sustain superior performance, especially experienced firms; platform transitions made sustained superiority harder, with the adverse effect amplified by complexity.
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Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Conservative inference: the two smartphone ecosystems and app-performance context limit direct transfer to other platform types; the publisher abstract does not state a formal limitations list. Full-text methods and correction history were not independently checked.
Possible founder application
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