The burgeoning digital-platforms literature across multiple business disciplines has primarily
characterized the platform as a market or network. Although the organizing role of platform …

Digital transformation and resultant business model innovation have fundamentally altered
consumers' expectations and behaviors, putting immense pressure on traditional firms, and …

For better or worse, digital technologies are reshaping everything, from customer behaviors
and expectations to organizational and manufacturing systems, business models, markets …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems have become a prominent concept, yet in its current state, the
concept itself represents a paradox. While it draws on a rich intellectual history and provides …

Stakeholders' pressure for environmental sustainability asks firms to develop ecosystem-
based business models (EBMs) driven by a disruptive technology that strategically …

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 are an omnipresent phenomenon that challenges incumbents by changing
how we consume and provide digital products and services. Whereas traditional firms create …

Abstract Research Summary Digitalization has three fundamental characteristics,
reprogrammability infrastructural elementality, and intangibility. Based on these …

Digitalization offers unprecedented opportunities for entrepreneurial small and medium-
sized enterprises (SMEs). However, many entrepreneurial SMEs lack resources and …

Ecosystems—communities of interdependent yet hierarchically independent heterogeneous
participants who collectively generate an ecosystem value proposition—often emerge …