Firms that own platforms often actively manage firms that offer products through the platform (i.e., platform complementors). To manage complementors, platform owners tend to have fewer tools available at their disposal relative to traditional organizations. Prior work has started examining how...

The objective of this article is to introduce readers to the emerging research stream on business ecosystems, explicating the novelty and the usefulness of ecosystem-based theorizing, and hoping to pave the way for an influential but cumulative body of knowledge. The key tenets within an...

The objective of this article is to introduce readers to the emerging research stream on business ecosystems, explicating the novelty and the usefulness of ecosystem-based theorizing, and hoping to pave the way for an influential but cumulative body of knowledge. The key tenets within an...