Sustaining superior performance in business ecosystems: Evidence from application software developers in the iOS and android smartphone ecosystems

Organization Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 531-551

  Kapoor, Rahul ^a   Agarwal, Shiva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ecosystem; Complementors; Platform; Smartphone ecosystem; Technology transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020549357     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2017.1122     Document Type: Article

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