Rather than organize as traditional firms, many of today's companies organize as platforms
that sit at the nexus of multiple exchange and production relationships. This chapter …

Next-generation technology provides users with new, advanced functionality that often
renders the past technology obsolete, opening a window of opportunity for challengers …

Social media platforms' digital advertising revenues depend considerably on partnerships.
Business partnerships are endemic and essential to the business of platforms, yet their role …

Research summary User demand affects the emergence and growth of platform ecosystems
through indirect network effects. But how do these effects play out in the strategies of …

Companies across industries are shifting toward a platform ecosystem strategy. By
leveraging cloud computing technologies, companies aim to benefit from collaboration with …

Platform sponsors and complementors co‐create value in digital platform ecosystems. But
how does a digital platform ecosystem emerge in the incipient stage, especially in a situation …

Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions
with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and interact with …

Platform-based technology ecosystems are new forms of organizing independent actors'
innovations around a stable product system. This collective organization is proving superior …

The digital economy has brought about multi-sided platforms as superior configurations for
value co-creation. However, the academic discourse on platforms is scattered across …

The new CGE report, The Rise of the Platform Enterprise: A Global Survey, presents the
results of a year-long research project in which leading scholars and experts from Africa …