Multisided platforms such as Apple's App Store and Valve's Steam become increasingly
dominant when more end users and complement producers join their ecosystems. Despite …

Existing research on digital platforms emphasizes the contexts that enable such platforms–
and their sponsoring firms-to emerge and achieve market dominance. However, this body of …

Extant platform research focuses on how platform owners' governance behaviors directly
affect complementors. This study explicates the multilateral interdependence among …

Platform ecosystems include complementary product markets that are creating
unprecedented business opportunities. Competition within complementary product markets …

Next-generation technology provides users with new, advanced functionality that often
renders the past technology obsolete, opening a window of opportunity for challengers …

Firms can benefit immensely from participating in digital platform ecosystems—specifically,
from the shared technological assets and market opportunities offered by the platform …

As platform owners continue to expand their ecosystems, many of them have started to
provide consumers with their own complementary applications. These moves position the …

Abstract Research Summary This study examines whether “unblocking” competition through
antitrust intervention against a dominant platform can spur complementor innovation in …

While two-sided platforms (eg, video game consoles) depend on complements (eg, games)
for their success, the success of complements is also influenced by platform-level dynamics …

Over the past three decades, platform competition—the competition between firms that
facilitate transactions and govern interactions between two or more distinct user groups who …