The ongoing and ubiquitous digital transformation challenges the raison d'être of firms and
forces managers to rethink business strategies and operations and academics to reconsider …

Over the past three decades, platform competition—the competition between firms that
facilitate transactions and govern interactions between two or more distinct user groups who …

The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

This article explores what factors drive digital platform firms to set or modify their boundaries.
Building on economics, strategic management, and information systems research, I suggest …

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 …

Digitalization and digital transformation have long fascinated scholars, but the recent
explosion in the adoption of digital technologies in all types of organizations brought the …

Blockchain technology and smart contracts are catalysts for decentralization and
disintermediation. These new technologies reduce transaction costs, agency costs, and offer …

Online digital platforms organize and mediate an ever-increasing share of economic and
societal activities. Moreover, the opportunities that platform-mediated markets offer not only …

Abstract Research Summary While the notion of ecosystems has become prominent in
scholarly and practitioner strategy literature in recent years, more can be done to bridge …

The terms decentralized organization and distributed organization are often used
interchangeably, despite describing two distinct phenomena. I propose distinguishing …