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This work highlights the importance of informal control modes on software platforms regarding their positive effects on third-party developers´ behaviors and outcomes. The author presents studies in the mobile software industry, demonstrating how self-control and clan control positively affect developers´ outcome performance, app quality and intentions to stay on software platforms. Moreover, the studies´ findings shed light on the underlying explanatory mechanisms of why informal control modes can be exercised effectively on software platforms and how especially clan control may be facilitated through developers´ social capital.

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Mobile Application Quality and Platform Stickiness under Formal vs. Self-Control - An Experimental Study.- Informal Control Modes and the Mediating Role of Third-Party Developers´ Intrinsic Motivation.- Social Capital and Clan Control to Enhance App-Developers´ Performance and Success.

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Tobias Goldbach wrote his dissertation at the Chair of Information Systems and E-Services at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

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