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Genres of Complementary Products in Platform-Based Markets: Changes in Evolutionary Mechanisms by Platform Diffusion Strategies

In: Digital Disruptive Innovation

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  • Yuki Inoue
  • Masaharu Tsujimoto

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Platform and complementary products configure platform-based markets. This study focuses on the genres of complementary products in a platform-based market. We examine differences in the influences of mediating factors on the evolutionary mechanisms of genres, based on different diffusion strategies in the Japanese video game sector: Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable. This study shows that a rapid platform diffusion strategy generates bandwagon effects in the evolution of genres, and, in turn, the excessive evolution of various genres negatively influences the sales distribution of software in the platform-based market, leading to a rapid decline of the platform. Additionally, this rapid decline results in an evolutionary failure of genres at a later stage in the platform’s lifecycle. Thus, we imply that a rapid platform expansion strategy may cause a rapid decline of the platform-based market and may exclude innovations based on undeveloped genres of complementary products.

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  • Yuki Inoue & Masaharu Tsujimoto, 2019. "Genres of Complementary Products in Platform-Based Markets: Changes in Evolutionary Mechanisms by Platform Diffusion Strategies," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Joe Tidd (ed.), Digital Disruptive Innovation, chapter 13, pages 379-415, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781786347602_0013
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Digital Innovation; Disruptive Technologies; Digital Disruption Strategies; Digital Business Model Innovation; Digital Platform Innovation;
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    JEL classification:

    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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