Many services and applications run on platforms, such as operating systems, Web service
platforms, and video game consoles.“Lock-in customers and locking-out competitors” is an …

Many digital platforms have accrued enormous power and scale, leveraging cross-side
network effects between the sides they connect (eg, producers and consumers or creators …

This dissertation explains new phenomena in platform industries such as wireless
communication, video game, online video streaming, e-commerce, mobile app, and etc. It …

Platform owners occasionally enter third-party providers' markets with similar offerings. This
study investigates the influence of such platform-owner entry on third parties' commitment to …

Online platforms, such as Google, Facebook, or Amazon, are constantly expanding their
activities, while increasing the overlap in their service offering. This paper asks, is expansion …

Platform owners have exerted an increasing level of influence on their complementors,
sometimes even competing with them. However, little is known about these coopetitive …

For two-sided platforms, the utility of users on one side of the platform depends in part on the
number of users on the other side of the platform, a phenomenon called indirect network …

Abstract Research Summary Platform owners often use endorsements to actively manage
complementor firms. We argue that the direct network effects of complementors' products …

Technology is an important factor underlying the value propositions of intermediary
platforms in two-sided markets. Here, we address two key questions related to the effect of …