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 …

Scholarly interest in business platforms has risen consistently in the past 10 years. As a
pervasive topic in the business literature, business platforms are addressed not only in the …

With the rise of online media platforms, intensified competition has forced platforms to
develop their content and even to cooperate with rival platforms. It is worth exploring the …

Network effects are often used to justify platform strategies such as acquisitions and
subsidies that aggregate users to a single dominant platform. However, when users have …

We study an economy in which consumers and merchants (sellers) interact on a two-sided
platform. Consumers can share data about their tastes for different varieties of a single good …

We study how a multisided platform's decision to certify a subset of its complementors affects
those complementors and ultimately the platform itself. Kiva, a microfinance platform …

Although the theoretical inventory literature has studied the impact of transshipments on
inventory, the common assumptions of a small number of products and fixed fill rates in …

Although food platforms are witnessing greater competition and shrinking margins in
emerging markets, consumer multihoming remains an underexplored phenomenon …

The world's most valuable public companies today are built on digital platforms. While
American digital platforms (ADPs) have successfully dominated many international markets …

Traditional information structures within shipping supply chain platforms often grapple with
inefficient decision-making processes, hindering overall efficiency. Blockchain is …