The concept of a platform describes a set of system components that is strongly
interdependent with most other system components, and that also co-determines the …

Research summary Platform ecosystems have spurred new products and services, sparked
innovation, and improved economic efficiency in various industries and technology sectors …

Purpose The proliferation of industry platforms has disrupted several industries. Firms
adopting a platform business model have experienced a substantial expansion in size and …

This paper brings together the recent literature on industry platforms and shows how it
relates to managing innovation within and outside the firm as well as to dealing with …

This chapter explores how industry platforms can be designed using specific collaborative
relationships that also take the form of platforms. In several sectors, the architecture of …

Over the past 30 years, numerous scholars in economics and management have studied a
phenomenon we now refer to as' platforms'-digital businesses that link multiple market sides …

Business models are becoming more inclined towards platforms, which allow inclusion of
diverse participants to promote leveraged growth and modularity of offerings. Despite being …

Industrial manufacturers increasingly develop digital platforms in the business-to-business
(B2B) context. This emergent form of digital platforms requires a profound yet little …

Digital platforms have gained importance across a wide range of industries because they
enable superadditive value creation in their platform ecosystems. Giant platform operators …

Existing research on digital platforms emphasizes the contexts that enable such platforms–
and their sponsoring firms-to emerge and achieve market dominance. However, this body of …