In the enterprise software industry, large platform vendors have established partner networks with smaller providers of complementary solutions. This study takes the perspective of these complementors. How do they coordinate their partnerships with platform vendors? What are the circumstances under which different coordination mechanisms lead to partnership success? Based on existing theories and the findings from extensive qualitative research, a new explanatory model is developed. The study contributes to theory building efforts in the Information Systems discipline as well as in adjacent...

The research on software ecosystems still is a young and emerging field. We created the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems to bring together the research community from all over Europe and to share, present and discuss their latest research with business experts from the software industry A big thank you to the many people who supported this workshop and the proceedings.