Control Modes On Mobile Software Platforms: Empirical Studies On The Importance Of Informal Control
by Tobias Goldbach /
2016 / English / PDF
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This work highlights the importance of informal control modes on
software platforms regarding their positive effects on
third-party developers’ behaviors and outcomes. The author
presents studies in the mobile software industry, demonstrating
how self-control and clan control positively affect developers’
outcome performance, app quality and intentions to stay on
software platforms. Moreover, the studies’ findings shed light on
the underlying explanatory mechanisms of why informal control
modes can be exercised effectively on software platforms and how
especially clan control may be facilitated through developers’
social capital.
This work highlights the importance of informal control modes on
software platforms regarding their positive effects on
third-party developers’ behaviors and outcomes. The author
presents studies in the mobile software industry, demonstrating
how self-control and clan control positively affect developers’
outcome performance, app quality and intentions to stay on
software platforms. Moreover, the studies’ findings shed light on
the underlying explanatory mechanisms of why informal control
modes can be exercised effectively on software platforms and how
especially clan control may be facilitated through developers’
social capital.
