This work highlights the importance of informal control modes on software platforms regarding their positive effects on third-party developers' behaviors and outcomes. The author presents studies in the mobile software industry, demonstrating how self-control and clan control positively affect developers' outcome performance, app quality and intentions to stay on software platforms. Moreover, the studies' findings shed light on the underlying explanatory mechanisms of why informal control modes can be exercised effectively on software platforms and how especially clan control may be facilitated through developers' social capital.

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Autorentext

Tobias Goldbach wrote his dissertation at the Chair of Information Systems and E-Services at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

Inhalt
Mobile Application Quality and Platform Stickiness under Formal vs. Self-Control An Experimental Study.- Informal Control Modes and the Mediating Role of Third-Party Developers' Intrinsic Motivation.- Social Capital and Clan Control to Enhance App-Developers' Performance and Success.