Sustaining Superior Performance in Business Ecosystems: Evidence from Application Software Developers in the iOS and Android Smartphone Ecosystems

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Organ. Sci.

• Publication date

  2017-04-26

• Fields of study

  Business, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/orsc.2017.1122
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