Business and IT Capabilities for Cloud Platform Success

Christopher Hahn; Jan Huntgeburth; Till J. Winkler; Ruediger Zarnekow

Business and IT Capabilities for Cloud Platform Success

Christopher Hahn, Jan Huntgeburth, Till J. Winkler, Ruediger Zarnekow

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Abstract

The growing proliferation of cloud platform ecosystems demands a deeper understanding of the capabilities that help existing and emerging platform providers to be successful by creating and appropriating value. This multiple case study of four cloud platform providers (three large, one SME) instantiates Rai and Tang’s (2014) framework of dyadic IT and network IT capabilities for a cloud platform context and extends it by exploring previously undertheorized cloud platform business capabilities. We further build on this extended framework by employing a configurational perspective to elucidate the complementary role of the three proposed business capabilities (incentives and rules, ecosystem marketing and sales, partner development and support) for relevant value creation and appropriation mechanisms. In addition to providing a capability framework catered to the cloud platform context, our findings are summarized in a set of four propositions that jointly contribute to emerging cloud platform research in IS.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICIS 2016 Proceedings
Number of pages	20
Place of Publication	Atlanta, GA
Publisher	Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date	2016
ISBN (Electronic)	9780996683135
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016: Digital Innovation at the Crossroads - University of Limerick, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 11 Dec 2016 → 14 Dec 2016 Conference number: 37 https://icis2016.aisnet.org/

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Conference	2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016
Number	37
Location	University of Limerick
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	11/12/2016 → 14/12/2016
Other	Thirty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems
Internet address	https://icis2016.aisnet.org/

Series	Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems
Volume	37

Keywords

Cloud platform ecosystems
Value creation
Value appropriation
IT capabilities
IT-enabled business models
Exploratory multiple case study

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Hahn, C, Huntgeburth, J, Winkler, TJ & Zarnekow, R 2016, Business and IT Capabilities for Cloud Platform Success. in ICIS 2016 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), Atlanta, GA, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, vol. 37, 2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016, Dublin, Ireland, 11/12/2016. <http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1189&context=icis2016>

Business and IT Capabilities for Cloud Platform Success. / Hahn, Christopher; Huntgeburth, Jan; Winkler, Till J. et al.
ICIS 2016 Proceedings. Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2016. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Vol. 37).

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