Open Platform Strategies and Innovation

Boudreau, K. (2010). Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access vs. Devolving Control. Management Science, 56(10), 1849-1872.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2010

Volume

56

Issue

10

Pages

1849-1872

DOI

10.1287/mnsc.1100.1215

DOI registrant

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Link

https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1100.1215

Cited from

computer_science, economics_finance, engineering_design, mathematics, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

8 citations across 8 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Decomposition
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Design for Lifecycle Adaptability

  • This source(Bibliography-only — uncited in body; platform-strategy contamination.)

• Interface
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Modularity
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Platform Design
  • The balance between openness (enabling diverse third-party applications) and governance (maintaining platform quality, security, and coherence)

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Boudreau's abstract supports the access-versus-control half of the openness dimension and its innovation effects, but says nothing about governance for quality, security, or coherence.

    “One approach is to grant access to a platform and thereby open up markets for complementary components around the platform. Another approach is to give up control over the platform itself.”

    Read by an automated reader; not a human review. How support was checked

• Specialization
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Substitutability
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Mechanisms

• Integration or API Tooling
  • By making integration cheap, it recruits the complementors whose add-ons make the network more valuable than the operator alone ever could.

    This sourceFinds that opening platform access to independent complement developers can sharply accelerate complementary-product innovation.

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