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We sincerely thank Wilhelm Klat for his contribution to an earlier version of this paper. This work was partially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Collaborative Research Centre “On-The-Fly Computing” (SFB 901).

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  1. Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Innovations- und Technologiemanagement, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Christian Stummer

  2. Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Digitale Märkte, Department Wirtschaftsinformatik, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Paderborn, Warburger Straße 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany

    Dennis Kundisch

  3. Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Marketing, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Reinhold Decker

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Stummer, C., Kundisch, D. & Decker, R. Platform Launch Strategies. Bus Inf Syst Eng 60, 167–173 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-018-0520-x

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