From Point to Path, The Role of Innovation Trajectory in Application Development

Yusheng Zhou; Jiantao Zhu; Bingqing Xiong; Eric T.K. Lim; Chee-Wee Tan

From Point to Path, The Role of Innovation Trajectory in Application Development

Yusheng Zhou, Jiantao Zhu, Bingqing Xiong, Eric T.K. Lim, Chee-Wee Tan

Department of Digitalization

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Abstract

Digital innovation research rarely examines the effects of innovation through the lens of application innovation as an evolutionary process. By scrutinizing the performance of applications in a highly competitive market, we classify application innovations and investigate their effects on performance in an application market. Advancing the concept of innovation trajectories whereby each innovation is regarded as a state and that continuous update to the same application constitute a state transition, we distinguish among four types of application innovation trajectories and put forth hypotheses regarding their varying effects on application performance metrics such as downloads and ratings. Insights derived from this study can be harnessed by app developers to differentiate themselves in a highly competitive marketplace through purposeful calibration of their innovation trajectory.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PACIS 2023 Proceedings
Editors	Patrick Chau, Jack Jing, Mikko Siponen, Andrew Burton-Jones, Chuan-Hoo Tan, Bo Sophia Xiao
Number of pages	9
Place of Publication	Atlanta, GA
Publisher	Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date	2023
Article number	202
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	The 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. PACIS 2023 - Nanchang, China Duration: 8 Jul 2023 → 12 Jul 2023 Conference number: 27 https://pacis2023.aisconferences.org/

Conference

Conference	The 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. PACIS 2023
Number	27
Country/Territory	China
City	Nanchang
Period	08/07/2023 → 12/07/2023
Internet address	https://pacis2023.aisconferences.org/

Keywords

Digital innovation
Application updates
Innovation trajectories
Application performance

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Zhou, Y., Zhu, J., Xiong, B., Lim, E. T. K., & Tan, C.-W. (2023). From Point to Path, The Role of Innovation Trajectory in Application Development. In P. Chau, J. Jing, M. Siponen, A. Burton-Jones, C.-H. Tan, & B. S. Xiao (Eds.), PACIS 2023 Proceedings Article 202 Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2023/202/

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Zhou, Y, Zhu, J, Xiong, B, Lim, ETK & Tan, C-W 2023, From Point to Path, The Role of Innovation Trajectory in Application Development. in P Chau, J Jing, M Siponen, A Burton-Jones, C-H Tan & BS Xiao (eds), PACIS 2023 Proceedings., 202, Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), Atlanta, GA, The 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. PACIS 2023, Nanchang, China, 08/07/2023. <https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2023/202/>

From Point to Path, The Role of Innovation Trajectory in Application Development. / Zhou, Yusheng; Zhu, Jiantao; Xiong, Bingqing et al.
PACIS 2023 Proceedings. ed. / Patrick Chau; Jack Jing; Mikko Siponen; Andrew Burton-Jones; Chuan-Hoo Tan; Bo Sophia Xiao. Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2023. 202.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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