sharing for efficiency, productivity and sus-tainability are predicated upon the adoption of an online digital platform. The … conundrum is that, as the intermediary, the owner of a successful platform acquires significant power in relationship to the … platform sides. This paper identifies five types of platform business models/ownership arrangements and their benefits and …

platform disruption and a tool to assess its risk, one which can enable executives to identify the threats but also the … opportunities associated with digital platform disruption … offerings can be, and whether there are unexploited heterogeneous customer preferences determine the degree of digital platform …

Motivating buyers and sellers to join an empty platform is thought to be a key challenge for firms attempting to launch …

a two-sided platform business. Consumer behavior is imperfect and, when adopting a platform, consumers only take …

) provide a platform for deployment of web-based services; b) envelop distributed internal resources; and c) present a …. Digitalization enables automation of business processes and facilitates improved management and operating efficiency of organizations …

Purpose - this paper aims to analyse the business efficiency of the Alibaba platform at the beginning and during the … COVID-19 crisis. Methodology/Design - The research is based on the official financial reports of the platform as well as on … the reports of other specialized agencies that monitor the platform industry. The study focuses on an analysis of the …