Abstract The Video Game Industry (VGI) is a highly innovative and rapidly growing sector
that has become the dominant force in the entertainment industry, with significant economic …

Being successfully applied in business-to-consumer industries for quite some time, digital
platforms only recently have found their way into the industrial business-to-business world …

Digital platforms are expected to have the potential for a multitude of purposes for industrial
enterprises, for instance when integrated within the concept of Industry 4.0. Despite its …

This study outlines the implications of ecosystem governance and positioning regarding the
indirect control of complementors' incremental and radical behaviors in goods development …

Platform sponsors strive to govern their platform ecosystem to be generative in supplying
complementary products abreast of adoption targets. A more comprehensive pool of …

We examine the effect of app developers' product line diversification decision on their
performance and shed light on whether the type of platform ecosystem (open versus closed) …

Technological platforms such as hardware or systems form platform ecosystems, which are
communities orchestrated by platform providers, outside complementors such as software …

Most platform literature focuses on single platforms and their governance, eg concerning
app developers. Yet, platform competition and dynamics are increasingly important as they …

Research into business ecosystems has rarely examined the success of business
ecosystem members. Business ecosystem leaders tend to focus on their own success rather …

Industry 4.0 describes a paradigm shift towards a digital and interconnected future of
industrial value creation (Lasi et al., 2014; Voigt et al., 2018). It is based on the exante …