Effect of Release Timing of App Innovations based on Mobile Platform Innovations

Soh, Franck; Grover, Varun

doi:10.1080/07421222.2020.1831763

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“…Recent research highlights that awards can also have a positive impact on the sales performance of other co-listed apps within the same product category. This positive spillover effect persists until approximately the midpoint between the releases of rival and focal apps (Soh and Grover, 2020). This midpoint serves as a focal point of attention, making it more challenging for apps released after this juncture to capture the app store's attention.…”

Section: Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It serves as a measure to assess when the focal entrepreneur introduced a new app. In alignment with prior research (Soh and Grover, 2020), the response time was divided into four quantiles. This division enabled the examination of interactive effects involving explorative changes over four distinct periods following the award date.…”

Section: Dependent Independent and Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation

Kuk

2023

IJEBR

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PurposeThis study explores how app store awards shape the behavior of leading digital entrepreneurs, focusing on their engagement in technological innovation through feedback and re-signaling mechanisms. It aims to reveal the nudging effect of award signals on entrepreneurial behavior.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, data from 349 leading mobile app entrepreneurs in the UK Google Play Store were collected over an extended period from various sources. Functionality novelty and explorative behavior were assessed by analyzing app release date and permission technologies in comparison to both their own prior apps and those of their closest competitors. Hypothesized relationships were tested using accelerated failure time parametric models.FindingsThis study extends the literature on signaling by showing that (1) the top developer award signal served to nudge entrepreneurs to improve the functionality novelty of their apps and those who succeeded were less likely to switch to another product category, (2) the award signal created a window of opportunity for non-award entrepreneurs to respond and those who released new apps around the midpoint of a normal app development cycle significantly improved the likelihood of winning the award in a subsequent round of award-giving, and (3) the effect of functionality novelty on winning the award was more pronounced when non-award entrepreneurs pursued more explorative than exploitative behavior in app development.Originality/valueThe results offer novel insights into an understudied area, specifically the influence of online award signals on nudging entrepreneurs to pursue technological innovation. The research also highlights the crucial role played by the app store as an intermediary signaler.

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Section: Dependent Independent and Control Variablesmentioning

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Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation

Kuk

2023

IJEBR

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“…With many apps available on Google Play Store, there is intense competition between the apps available for the Android platform. Additionally, the competition for user attention results in a winner takes all kind of scenario where successful apps build on network effect benefits and corner a large portion of potential revenue from an app category (Soh & Grover, 2020). The availability of many substitute apps implies that an app developer would need to differentiate their offering through increased innovation and unique features that the app can provide (James, Leiblein, & Lu, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Price -The price of an app is the amount of money required to download an app from the marketplace. We consider the price to download only and no in-app purchases (freemium models) as this presents an important indicator of the value assessment performed by the app developers that the users need to evaluate before deciding to use the app (Soh & Grover, 2020).…”

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“…Especially, as platform owners have increased the scope of APIs covered under the permissions system, the effectiveness of the strategy depends on how app developers respond to this evolution. App developers operate under conditions of intense market competition (Soh & Grover, 2020). Therefore, in this paper, we ask, what app market factors influence the usage of permissions by app developers on a mobile platform.…”

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Effect of App Market Conditions on Permissions Usage by App Developers

Wei,

Mallampalli

2023

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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The common mechanism for controlling security and privacy data on mobile platforms is through the app permissions model. Platform owners evolve the model through changes to the APIs provided to app developers. This however places increased responsibility on app developers to determine the privileges they need to deliver the app's functionality. In this paper, we investigate the factors influencing an app developer to seek permissions for privileged access in the context of the Android mobile platform. We find that the apps facing higher competition in their category or targeted at more mature audiences seek more permissions from users. However, apps charging higher prices for downloads ask for a lower number of permissions. The findings suggest that market conditions incentivize app developers to seek more privileges whereas a revenue stream such as download price does not. Therefore, more control exercised by the platform owner on the conditions of their app market would be more beneficial to the platform from the security and privacy perspective.

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An empirical study of content-based recommendation systems in mobile app markets

Jozani

Liu

Choo

2023

Decision Support Systems

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Effect of Release Timing of App Innovations based on Mobile Platform Innovations

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation

Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation

Effect of App Market Conditions on Permissions Usage by App Developers

An empirical study of content-based recommendation systems in mobile app markets

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