The creation of new products or innovations is often based on enabling technologies such as standardized development tools. Firms often have a choice whether to use these tools, or to create the functionality themselves. In this paper, we study how the use of standardized tools is related to the...

The mobility of highly skilled knowledge and creative workers is an important determinant of innovation. Existing studies have not considered how the growth and diffusion of standardized technologies and tools influence the mobility of individual knowledge workers. We theorize that the diffusion...

Product innovation entails both technological and design innovation, yet our knowledge of determinants of innovation outcomes is limited to technological innovations. This is a significant limitation because design innovation represents an increasingly large share of total innovation activity by...

Multihoming – the decision to design a complement to operate on multiple platforms – is becoming increasingly common in many platform markets. Perceived wisdom suggests that multihoming is beneficial for complement providers as they expand their market reach, but it reduces differentiation...