To Row Together or Paddle One's Own Canoe? Simulating Strategies to Spur Digital Platform Growth

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This study provides a novel perspective on digital platform dynamics by applying a stochastic cellular automaton (CA) as a promising instrument of inquiry to investigate the impact of social and technical openness on platform growth. Owing to the dynamism of digital platforms caused by technological complexity, network effects, and developer-level factors, there is limited under-standing of how early-stage platform owners can successfully sustain platform growth. Research suggests two growth strategies: Adjusting the openness of technical platform resources and gov-erning the developers’ accessibility of the distribution channel. Based on experiments that lev-erage a stochastic CA, we show that platform growth can be achieved through three disparate growth strategy configurations. Our paper contributes to research by synthesizing the technolo-gy, market, and individual levels of platform growth analyses through a novel methodological account, and by offering theoretical propositions for future research. Our results can guide platform owners to scrutinize their growth strategies.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationECIS 2019 Proceedings
Place of PublicationAtlanta
PublisherAIS eLibrary
Publication date2019
ISBN (electronic)978-1-73363-250-8
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event27th European Conference on Information Systems: Information Systems for a Sharing Society - ECIS 2019 - Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden
Duration: 08.06.201914.06.2019
Conference number: 27
http://ecis2019.eu/

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