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Ghazawneh, Ahmad and Henfridsson, Ola (2015) A paradigmatic analysis of digital application marketplaces. Journal of Information Technology, 30 (3). pp. 198-208. doi:10.1057/jit.2015.16 ISSN 0268-3962.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jit.2015.16
Abstract
This paper offers a paradigmatic analysis of digital application marketplaces for advancing information systems (IS) research on digital platforms and ecosystems. We refer to the notion of digital application marketplace, colloquially called “appstores,” as a platform component that offers a venue for exchanging applications between developers and end-users belonging to a single or multiple ecosystems. Such marketplaces exhibit diversity in features and assumptions, and we propose that examining this diversity, and its ideal types, will help us to further understand the relationship between application marketplaces, platforms, and platform ecosystems. To this end, we generate a typology that distinguishes four kinds of digital application marketplaces: closed, censored, focused, and open marketplaces. The paper also offers implications for actors wishing to make informed decisions about their relationship to a particular digital application marketplace.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mobile apps | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Information Technology | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0268-3962 | ||||
Official Date: | 19 May 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 30 | ||||
Number: | 3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 11 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 198-208 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1057/jit.2015.16 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 February 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 May 2016 |
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