Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors

The authors gratefully acknowledge the thoughtful feedback from conference and seminar audiences at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Strategic Management Society Conference, Platform Strategy Research Symposium at Boston University, Technology and Innovation Community Meeting at the Rotterdam School of Management, and the internal seminar series of the KIN Center for Digital Innovation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The authors thank John Eklund, Marco Giarratana, Jaemin Lee, and Hakan Ozalp for helpful input on earlier versions of this paper. The paper benefitted greatly from the many constructive comments and suggestions by senior editor Abhinav Gupta and three anonymous reviewers. Ajay Singh provided excellent research assistance. Both authors contributed equally.