Digitalization has disrupted how organizations collaborate and compete resulting in the
development of new collaborative value-creation networks such as the Digital Business …

Switching costs and network effects bind customers to vendors if products are incompatible,
locking customers or even markets in to early choices. Lock-in hinders customers from …

A handful of digital platforms mediate a growing share of online commerce and
communications. By structuring access to markets, these firms function as gatekeepers for …

The 'sharing economy'is in the process of transforming numerous industries. Among these,
the hotel sector is especially vulnerable to the strategic disruption that sharing platforms …

Research Summary: Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces and
compete against them. Using data from Amazon. com to study Amazon's entry pattern into …

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 …

Abstract Research Summary This paper studies the impact of platform‐owner entry threat on
complementors in platform‐based markets. We examine how app developers on the …

A growing number of digital platforms operate in a dual mode: running marketplaces for third‐
party products, while selling their own products on those marketplaces. We build a model to …

This paper studies two fundamentally distinct approaches to opening a technology platform
and their different impacts on innovation. One approach is to grant access to a platform and …

We study how platform owners' decision to enter complementary markets affects innovation
in the ecosystem surrounding the platform. Despite heated debates on the behavior of …