Social Aspects and How They Influence MSECO Developers

Mobile software ecosystem (MSECO) is a new software development paradigm for mobile technologies, having three main dimensions, namely: Technical, Business and Social. The literature has a considerable number of studies on Technical and business dimensions, but only a few studies focus on the social aspects of MSECOs. However, the literature has enough to provide evidence that the actors involved, such as developers, are crucial to an MSECO. This study aims to complement earlies studies by describing new social factors that influence developers to work in a MSECO. We conducted a systematic literature review in order to identify these new factors, and a field study in which 20 developers were interviewed to understand how these factors can influence them to join or keep participating in a MSECO. We found that developer become more rigorous to continue participating then to adopt a MSECO.