The emergence of industry platforms is a novel phenomenon impacting most industries
today, from products to services. Industry platforms are building blocks (they can be …

The emergence of platforms, whether used inside firms, across supply chains, or as building
blocks that act as engines of innovation and redefine industrial architectures, is a novel …

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 …

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

In her pioneering book Platform Leadership (with Michael Cusumano), Gawer gave us the
strategy of building coalitions of customers, suppliers, and complementors. Now, she brings …

Product and system designers have long exploited opportunities to create families of
complex artifacts by developing and recombining modular components. An especially …

Numerous factors affect the emergence of a successful platform among competing
alternatives. Some of these influences can be very idiosyncratic or platform-specific …

An integrative framework is proposed to advance management research on technological
platforms, bridging two theoretical perspectives: economics, which sees platforms as double …

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 …

Selecting optimal levels of openness is crucial for firms that create and maintain platforms
(Gawer and Cusumano, 2002; West, 2003; Gawer and Henderson, 2007; Boudreau, 2008; …