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Competing for Temporary Advantage in a Hypercompetitive Mobile App Market
MIS Quarterly ( IF 7.0 ) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 , DOI: 10.25300/misq/2022/15079
Tabitha James , Zhilei Qiao , Wenqi Shen , G. Alan Wang , Weiguo Fan

Hypercompetitive mobile app stores are characterized by rapid innovation and intense competition. App firms must vie for temporary competitive advantage through competitive actions such as releasing product improvements. We study how competitive indicators influence a particular competitive action—app updates—in a mobile game app market. Our results reveal that app firms take action to improve or sustain their temporary competitive advantage, updating their apps when there are opportunities to capitalize on popularity (e.g., rank and rating volume are increasing) and when their apps’ advantages are threatened (e.g., customer ratings are decreasing). We also find that app updates are released in response to competitors’ actions—specifically, when competitors update their apps and new competitors enter ranking lists. Moreover, our findings show that app firms release app updates when an app’s customer rating volume is increasing or when an app firm’s portfolio of game apps is less diverse, relative to its competitors. We conduct additional analyses that show that older app firms are responsive to more competitive indicators than younger ones and major updates are primarily used to respond to serious threats to apps’ competitive positions. Overall, our results indicate that app updates are competitive actions used to improve or sustain temporary advantage when competitive indicators reveal opportunities to improve or threats to apps’ competitive positions.

中文翻译:

在竞争异常激烈的移动应用市场中争夺暂时优势

竞争激烈的移动应用商店的特点是快速创新和激烈竞争。应用程序公司必须通过发布产品改进等竞争行为来争夺暂时的竞争优势。我们研究竞争指标如何影响移动游戏应用市场中的特定竞争行为(应用更新)。我们的结果表明,应用程序公司会采取行动来提高或维持其暂时的竞争优势,当有机会利用受欢迎程度(例如,排名和评分量不断增加)以及当其应用程序的优势受到威胁时(例如,客户收视率正在下降)。我们还发现,应用程序更新是根据竞争对手的行为发布的,特别是当竞争对手更新其应用程序并且新竞争对手进入排名列表时。而且,我们的研究结果表明,当应用程序的客户评级量增加或应用程序公司的游戏应用程序组合相对于其竞争对手不太多样化时,应用程序公司就会发布应用程序更新。我们进行的额外分析表明,较老的应用程序公司比年轻的应用程序公司对更多的竞争指标做出反应,并且主要更新主要用于应对对应用程序竞争地位的严重威胁。总体而言,我们的结果表明,当竞争指标显示出改进应用程序竞争地位的机会或对应用程序竞争地位构成威胁时,应用程序更新是用于提高或维持临时优势的竞争行为。我们进行的额外分析表明,较老的应用程序公司比年轻的应用程序公司对更多的竞争指标做出反应,并且主要更新主要用于应对对应用程序竞争地位的严重威胁。总体而言,我们的结果表明,当竞争指标显示出改进应用程序竞争地位的机会或对应用程序竞争地位构成威胁时,应用程序更新是用于提高或维持临时优势的竞争行为。我们进行的额外分析表明,较老的应用程序公司比年轻的应用程序公司对更多的竞争指标做出反应,并且主要更新主要用于应对对应用程序竞争地位的严重威胁。总体而言,我们的结果表明,当竞争指标显示出改进应用程序竞争地位的机会或对应用程序竞争地位构成威胁时,应用程序更新是用于提高或维持临时优势的竞争行为。
更新日期:2023-09-06
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