Nonlinear statistical models
Asset stock accumulation and sustainability of competitive advantage
Management Science
Platform Leadership
Opening the "Black Box" of Network Externalities in Network Adoption
Information Systems Research
Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
Organization Science
Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups
Management Science
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Assessing the value of interorganizational systems to support business transactions
International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special issue: Electronic intermediaries and networks in business-to-business electronic commerce
Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Venture Capitalists and Cooperative Start-up Commercialization Strategy
Management Science
Technology roles and paths of influence in an ecosystem model of technology evolution
Information Technology and Management
Investment in Enterprise Resource Planning: Business Impact and Productivity Measures
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict
Management Science
Issues and Opinions---Information Technologies in Business: A Blueprint for Education and Research
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Designing digital innovation contests
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
Co-opetition Between Differentiated Platforms in Two-Sided Markets
Journal of Management Information Systems
Introducing app stores into a packaged software ecosystem: a negotiated order perspective
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Digital platforms: when is participation valuable?
Communications of the ACM
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It has been argued that platform technology owners cocreate business value with other firms in their platform ecosystems by encouraging complementary invention and exploiting indirect network effects. In this study, we examine whether participation in an ecosystem partnership improves the business performance of small independent software vendors (ISVs) in the enterprise software industry and how appropriability mechanisms influence the benefits of partnership. By analyzing the partnering activities and performance indicators of a sample of 1,210 small ISVs over the period 1996-2004, we find that joining a major platform owner's platform ecosystem is associated with an increase in sales and a greater likelihood of issuing an initial public offering (IPO). In addition, we show that these impacts are greater when ISVs have greater intellectual property rights or stronger downstream capabilities. This research highlights the value of interoperability between software products, and stresses that value cocreation and appropriation are not mutually exclusive strategies in interfirm collaboration.