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Exploiting and Defending Open Digital Platforms with Boundary Resources: Android’s Five Platform Forks

Kimmo Karhu
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Kimmo Karhu
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Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Robin Gustafsson
Robin Gustafsson
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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Kalle Lyytinen
Kalle Lyytinen
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Department of Design and Innovation, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
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Kimmo Karhu

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Kimmo Karhu

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Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland

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Robin Gustafsson

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland

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Kalle Lyytinen

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Department of Design and Innovation, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

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Published Online:14 May 2018https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2018.0786

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Received:September 01, 2016
Accepted:February 13, 2018
Published Online:May 14, 2018

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Kimmo Karhu, Robin Gustafsson, Kalle Lyytinen (2018) Exploiting and Defending Open Digital Platforms with Boundary Resources: Android’s Five Platform Forks. Information Systems Research 29(2):479-497.

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