The emergence of large-scale digital platforms such as Facebook, Google Play and Apple App Store around 2008 has created opportunities for independent entrepreneurs to offer their self-developed software applications (“apps”) to large groups of platform users. The development and release of...

Today’s turbulent environment is heralding an increase in organizing in flexible, ad-hoc manners that involve frequent adaptations to opportunities and changes. Research has documented a concomitant rise of temporary organizing principles in and across firms (Bakker, 2010)—ranging from...