Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom? An Early Look at Large Numbers of Software App Developers and Patterns of Innovation

By Kevin J. Boudreau. Organ. Sci., 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature (2020, positive): “…congestion costs that lower a complementor’s incentives to invest in quality and innovation and may result in coordination problems that actually decrease value to consumers (e.g., Boudreau, 2012, 2017; Boudreau & Jeppesen, 2015; Casadesus-Masanell & Hałaburda, 2014; Markovich & Moenius, 2009).”
Unpaid Crowd Complementors: The Platform Network Effect Mirage (2015, positive): “…paid complementors can generate network effects that might only be curtailed after extraordinarily high levels of entry (e.g., Economides, 1996; Augereau et al., 2006; Boudreau, 2012), the theory and evidence presented here indicate a diminished scope for network effects with unpaid complementors.”
Reducing the Barrier to Entry of Complex Robotic Software: a MoveIt! Case Study (2014, background): “Making the accessibility of robotic development more like mobile device development and web development might increase the speed of innovation in robotics, similar to that experienced by phone apps and the Internet [11].”
The digital platform: a research agenda (2018, background): “Digital platforms can be defined as purely technical artefacts where the platform is an extensible codebase, and the ecosystem comprises third-party modules complementing this codebase (Tiwana et al., 2010; Boudreau, 2012).”
Technology Ecosystem Governance (2014, background): “…innovation, governance infrastructures must be developed that embrace entrepreneurial, self-interested motivations, fragmented knowledge, diverse expertise and market contexts, yet simultaneously direct disparate contributions to the greater collective benefits of the ecosystem (Boudreau, 2011).”
Managing technological change in the digital age: the role of architectural frames (2014, background): “For instance, Apple ’ s ﬂ ourishing developer program for the iPhone and iPad has stimulated many third-party application developers, leading in their customer segment, to port, or reproduce, their solution patterns for Apple ’ s devices (cf. Eaton et al. , 2011; Boudreau, 2012).”
Global platforms and ecosystems: Implications for international business theories (2019, background): “This organizational churning process fuels entrepreneurial activities by promoting new venture creation and encouraging their expansion, often on an international scale (Zahra & Nambisan, 2011, 2012).”
Introduction - Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age (2018, neutral): “Expanding the number of developers on a platform can result in congestion and crowding (Boudreau 2012), and consumers’ search costs can increase due to information asymmetry between consumers and developers.”
Embracing Digital Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed Competing Concerns (2017, background): “To foment network effects, they seek to bring numerous developers on board (Boudreau 2012); to increase variation, they strive to mobilize differentiated and uncoordinated audiences (Zittrain 2006, p.”