Platforms · Longitudinal qualitative study

Sustaining complementor engagement in digital platform ecosystems: Antecedents, behaviours and engagement trajectories

Information Systems Journal · 2023

Martin Engert, Julia Evers, Andreas Hein, Helmut Krcmar

Original paper ↗

Summary

Complementor engagement includes generating, networking, and other observable behaviors that change over time.

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Possible founder application

Instrument partner engagement behaviors, not merely sign-ups or API calls.

Reported result

What the study found

Complementor engagement includes generating, networking, and other observable behaviors that change over time.

Research question

What the authors investigated

How does the study’s stated design explain its reported outcome in this setting?

Design

Longitudinal qualitative study

Sample and setting

Enterprise software complementors

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

Qualitative trajectories and enterprise context.

Research sources

abstract_only

Study strength

3.5/5 Abstract-level evidence is useful for framing questions; verify full methods before transfer.

How this was assessed

The 1–5 evidence-check score is a practical reading aid, not a formal peer review or a probability that a conclusion is true. It combines design strength (2 points), sample reporting (1), comparison/control clarity (1), and how much of the paper could be checked (1). Access affects how confidently this directory can assess a study, not the study's underlying quality. Blinding is reported separately because it is not relevant to every design.

Design transparency · 2/2

Based on the reported study design in the retrieved source.

Sample and setting · 1/1

The sample context is stated; a numerical count is preserved only when reported.

Outcome clarity · 1/1

The finding is summarized from publisher or article metadata.

Access for checking · 0.5/1

Only abstract or bibliographic access was confirmed.

Double-blind? The retrieved publisher record does not establish whether participants or outcome assessors were blinded.