Does Platform Owner’s Entry Crowd Out Innovation? Evidence from Google Photos

Information Systems Research - Tập 29 Số 2 - Trang 444-460 - 2018
Jens Foerderer1, Thomas Kude2, Sunil Mithas3, Armin Heinzl1
1Business School, University of Mannheim, 68131 Mannheim, Germany
2ESSEC Business School, 95021 Cergy-Pontoise, France
3Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742; and Muma College of Business, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620

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We study how platform owners’ decision to enter complementary markets affects innovation in the ecosystem surrounding the platform. Despite heated debates on the behavior of platform owners toward complementors, relatively little is known about the mechanisms linking platform owners’ entry and complementary innovation. We exploit Google’s 2015 entry into the market for photography apps on its own Android platform as a quasi-experiment. We conclude based on our analyses of a time-series panel of 6,620 apps that Google’s entry was associated with a substantial increase in complementary innovation. We estimate that the entry caused a 9.6% increase in the likelihood of major updates for apps affected by Google’s entry, compared to similar but not affected apps. Further analyses suggest that Google’s entry triggered complementary innovation because of the increased consumer attention for photography apps, instead of competitive “racing” or “Red Queen” effects. This attention spillover effect was particularly pronounced for larger and more diversified complementors. The study advances our understanding of the effects of platform owner’s entry, explicates the complex mechanisms that shape complementary innovation, and adds empirical evidence to the debate on regulating platforms.The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2018.0787 .

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Information Systems Research

Tập 29 Số 2

444-460

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