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Comino, Stefano, Manenti, Fabio M. and Mariuzzo, Franco 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4604-1054
(2019)
Updates management in mobile applications: iTunes vs Google Play.
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 28 (3).
pp. 392-419.
ISSN 1058-6407
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Abstract
This paper focuses on a specific strategy that developers of mobile applications may use to stimulate demand: the release of updates. We develop a theoretical analysis that shows that developers have incentives to release updates when experiencing a drop in performance. The predictions of the model are then tested using an unbalanced panel of top 1,000 apps in iTunes and Google Play for five European countries. We estimate that while in iTunes the release of an update stimulates a 26% increase in download growth, in Google Play updates play a less significant role. This difference is partly due to systematic differences in apps and in developers operating in the two stores (“selection effect”), and partly to a lack of quality control on apps and updates in Google Play (“quality check effect”). These findings highlight the crucial importance of an appropriate management of updates as well as the relevance of institutional char- acteristics of the app stores.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | mobile applications,updates,downloads,itunes,google play,quality check,buzz,multihoming,multi-homing, mobile applications, quality check, updates,economics and econometrics,business, management and accounting(all),management of technology and innovation,strategy and management ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Industrial Economics |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2018 10:34 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2023 16:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68300 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jems.12288 |
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