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Where Does This Feature Belong to? Locating Business-to-Business Features in a Platform Ecosystem

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The question of how software development needs are channeled into different parts of a platform ecosystem has been addressed by separating owners and complementors and by separating the core and the periphery. This is not necessarily sufficient in business-to-business ecosystems due to their characteristics. Our grounded theory study observes a B2B platform that brings together multiple stakeholders and their software development. This paper describes the location aspect in decision making, what feature gets implemented in which part of the ecosystem and on what grounds. We refer to this decision of implementation location as feature demarcation. We describe the related structures and discuss why the location matters. Our work complements the existing research with an addition to the core-periphery view. In the process of situating a new feature we observe the architectural elements together instead of focusing on distinct entities.

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    Jaakko Vuolasto & Kari Smolander

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Vuolasto, J., Smolander, K. (2022). Where Does This Feature Belong to? Locating Business-to-Business Features in a Platform Ecosystem. In: Carroll, N., Nguyen-Duc, A., Wang, X., Stray, V. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 463. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20706-8_14

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