Third-Party Developers' Adoption of APIs and Their Continued New App Development in Software Platform: A Competing Risk Analysis
时间：2017年6月19日（周一）下午 2:00-3:00
地点：体育外围平台APP紫金港校区行政楼1102会议室
主讲人：Dr. Ling Xue, Georgia State University
主持人：黄鹂强副教授，体育外围平台APP
摘要:
In this study, we use the data about a major web browser and its third-party developers to directly test the impact of API adoption by developers on their continued new app development. We develop a joint frailty model and perform a competing risk analysis. We model developers' updates of existing apps as recurrent events, and different types of new app development as competing types of terminal events for development cycles. Our results show that the adoption of platform APIs makes developers more likely to develop new apps both in their existing app categories and in new categories. High-level platform APIs generate a weaker effect than low-level platform APIs in driving new app development. We also find that developer competition strengthens the positive impact of high-level platform APIs on new app development in new categories and weakens the positive impact of high-level platform APIs on new app development in existing categories.
主讲人简介：
Dr. Ling Xue is an Assistant Professor at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research interests include IT-related corporate governance issues, strategic business value of IT, inter-organizational systems, and the digital platform business models. His papers have been published in AMJ, ISR, MISQ,JOM, POMS, JMIS, among others.
