… platform providers and complementors as the ecosystem evolves? We study how user
preferences for ecosystem innovativeness (complement novelty and quality) and ecosystem size (…

… That is, firms will choose to innovate using open external contracts in preference to closed
vertical … We use stylized facts from multiple platform firms to illustrate our theory and results. …

… , when customer preferences are homogenous, network externalities lock out rivals and
tip the market in favour of one platform; however, in case of heterogeneous user preferences, …

… digital platform ecosystem to change form to align with changing consumer preferences and
… In the next stage of theorizing, we use the service system design framework to propose how …

… ability to react to subtle changes in consumer preferences and possibly serve niche …
remain about what strategies platforms use to manage within-platform competition. For example, …

… in platform ecosystems. This paper contributes to the understanding of platform ecosystems
in … platform owner, the complementor or the end-user (Table 3). The platform owner runs the …

… problems worsen as the platform ecosystem matures and average user satisfaction degrades
because of underlying greater dispersion in users’ preferences and evaluations of how …

… Drawing upon the literature on ecosystem ecology and socio-… platform ecosystems. This
evolutionary framework identifies three key components of the service platform ecosystem: (a) …

… platform ecosystems… platforms and digital platform ecosystems to provide a definition that
integrates both concepts. Second, we use this definition to explain how different digital platform …

… : “a software ecosystem consists of a software platform, a set … This is the definition that we
will use in this paper as it clearly … developers’ preferences towards ecosystems are influenced …