Opening the floodgates: the implications of increasing platform openness in crowdfunding
Opening the floodgates: the implications of increasing platform openness in crowdfunding
Michael Wessel,Ferdinand Thies,Alexander Benlian
2017 · DOI: 10.1057/s41265-017-0040-z
Journal of Information and Technology · 108 Citations
TLDR
It is found that increasing platform openness for third-party offerings can destabilize a platform’s ecosystem, and the literature on platform openness and on the implications of policy changes on platform ecosystems is extended.