TY - JOUR
T1 - Platform adoption by mobile application developers
T2 - A multimethodological approach
AU - Song, Jaeki
AU - Baker, Jeff
AU - Wang, Ying
AU - Choi, Hyoung Yong
AU - Bhattacherjee, Anol
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - This paper investigates the factors that influence the adoption of IT platforms by software developers and how those factors differ from those that influence IT adoption by end-users. We take a multi-methodological approach, beginning with an interpretive field study where we interview mobile application developers. In the initial interpretive phase, we identify a comprehensive set of influences on developers' platform adoption, comparing them with the factors that have been identified in previous studies of end-user adoption, noting key differences. In the second phase, we empirically test the factors identified in our interviews. We find several key differences between end-user adoption of IT and developer adoption of IT platforms. Most notably, we observe the importance of network externality considerations when developers make an adoption decision, a consideration that is largely absent for end-users. Our study is among the first to comment on B2B and B2C issues in the adoption phenomenon where developers adopt a platform as technology producers (a B2B consideration) in order to ultimately provide mobile applications to end-users who are technology consumers (a B2C consideration).
AB - This paper investigates the factors that influence the adoption of IT platforms by software developers and how those factors differ from those that influence IT adoption by end-users. We take a multi-methodological approach, beginning with an interpretive field study where we interview mobile application developers. In the initial interpretive phase, we identify a comprehensive set of influences on developers' platform adoption, comparing them with the factors that have been identified in previous studies of end-user adoption, noting key differences. In the second phase, we empirically test the factors identified in our interviews. We find several key differences between end-user adoption of IT and developer adoption of IT platforms. Most notably, we observe the importance of network externality considerations when developers make an adoption decision, a consideration that is largely absent for end-users. Our study is among the first to comment on B2B and B2C issues in the adoption phenomenon where developers adopt a platform as technology producers (a B2B consideration) in order to ultimately provide mobile applications to end-users who are technology consumers (a B2C consideration).
KW - IT platform adoption
KW - Mobile applications
KW - Multi-methodology
KW - Network externalities
KW - Quantitative research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040127184&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.dss.2017.12.013
DO - 10.1016/j.dss.2017.12.013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040127184
VL - 107
SP - 26
EP - 39
JO - Decision Support Systems
JF - Decision Support Systems
SN - 0167-9236
ER -