TY - CHAP
T1 - Lead users' innovative work behavior in digital platform ecosystems
T2 - 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019
AU - Schaarschmidt, Mario
AU - Stol, Klaas Jan
AU - Walsh, Gianfranco
AU - Bertram, Matthias
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Application developers constitute an important part of a digital platform's ecosystem. Knowledge about psychological processes that drive developer behavior in platform ecosystems is scarce. We build on the lead userness construct which comprises two dimensions, trend leadership and high expected benefits from a solution, to explain how developers' innovative work behavior (IWB) is stimulated. We employ an efficiency-oriented and a social-political perspective to investigate the relationship between lead userness and IWB. The efficiency-oriented view resonates well with the expected benefit dimension of lead userness, while the social-political view might be interpreted as a reflection of trend leadership. Using structural equation modeling, we test our model with a sample of over 400 developers from three platform ecosystems. We find that lead userness is indirectly associated with IWB and the performance-enhancing view to be the stronger predictor of IWB. Finally, we unravel differences between paid and unpaid app developers in platform ecosystems.
AB - Application developers constitute an important part of a digital platform's ecosystem. Knowledge about psychological processes that drive developer behavior in platform ecosystems is scarce. We build on the lead userness construct which comprises two dimensions, trend leadership and high expected benefits from a solution, to explain how developers' innovative work behavior (IWB) is stimulated. We employ an efficiency-oriented and a social-political perspective to investigate the relationship between lead userness and IWB. The efficiency-oriented view resonates well with the expected benefit dimension of lead userness, while the social-political view might be interpreted as a reflection of trend leadership. Using structural equation modeling, we test our model with a sample of over 400 developers from three platform ecosystems. We find that lead userness is indirectly associated with IWB and the performance-enhancing view to be the stronger predictor of IWB. Finally, we unravel differences between paid and unpaid app developers in platform ecosystems.
KW - Digital platform ecosystem
KW - Innovative work behavior
KW - Lead userness
KW - Structural equation modeling
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85114902253
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85114902253
T3 - 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019
BT - 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019
PB - Association for Information Systems
Y2 - 15 December 2019 through 18 December 2019
ER -