Abstract
Digital platform owners repeatedly face paradoxical design decisions with regard to their platforms’ generativity and control, requiring them to facilitate co-innovation whilst simultaneously retaining control over third-party complementors. To address this challenge, platform owners deploy a variety of governance mechanisms. However, researchers and practitioners currently lack a coherent understanding of what major governance mechanisms platform owners rely on to simultaneously foster generativity and control. Conducting a structured literature review, we connect the fragmented academic discourse on governance mechanisms with each aspect of the generativity-control tension. Next to providing avenues for prospective digital platform research, we elaborate on the double-sidedness of governance mechanisms in fostering both generativity and control.
DOI
10.17705/1CAIS.05137
Recommended Citation
Staub, N., Haki, K., Aier, S., & Winter, R. (2022). Governance Mechanisms in Digital Platform Ecosystems: Addressing the Generativity-Control Tension. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 51, pp-pp. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.05137
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