Abstract:
Platform owners engage third-party developers in their ecosystems by using boundary resources to grant them access to some of the platforms' core functionalities. Although boundary resources are a niche in Information Systems research, many publications from renowned journals and conferences concentrate on mobile platform ecosystems, adopt a generalist viewpoint, or choose other business-to-consumer (B2C) cases. The business-to-business (B2B) context is underrepresented in this focus. B2C ecosystems typically attract third-party developers more easily because they have a larger customer base than B2B ecosystems. To address this gap, the author suggests conducting research on the creation of successful third-party developer ecosystems around B2B platforms.