The Building Blocks of Software Platforms: Understanding the Past to Forge the Future

He Li, William J. Kettinger
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This study takes a review and theory development (RTD) approach to synthesizing the software platform literature, offering theoretical perspective and research guidance. In doing so, we conceptualize platform and complementary capabilities for software platform owners and complementors. The review indicates that three dimensions reflect platform capabilities: intermediarity, generativity, and ambidexterity, while complementary capabilities include creativity, interconnectivity, and appropriability dimensions. We derive an integrative framework of software platforms, which explains (1) how software platform owners and complementors improve performance by enhancing their capabilities, and (2) how software platform owners, complementors, and the ecosystem environment coevolve. We then discuss how future research can build on and enrich the research framework
软件平台的构建模块:了解过去,打造未来
本研究采用回顾与理论发展(review and theory development, RTD)的方法综合软件平台相关文献,提供理论视角和研究指导。在此过程中,我们为软件平台所有者和互补者概念化平台和互补能力。回顾表明,三个维度反映了平台的能力:中间性、生成性和双灵巧性,而互补能力包括创造力、互联性和适宜性维度。我们推导了一个软件平台的集成框架,它解释了(1)软件平台所有者和互补者如何通过增强他们的能力来提高性能,以及(2)软件平台所有者、互补者和生态系统环境如何共同进化。然后,我们讨论了未来的研究如何建立和丰富研究框架
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