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 …

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 …

relevant platform "sides", deciding which fundamental activities to perform and trading off depth against scope of MSP …

intermediation: the merchant mode, in which the intermediary buys from sellers and resells to buyers; and the two-sided platform mode … higher profits than the two-sided platform mode when the chicken-and-egg problem due to indirect network effects for the two …-sided platform mode is more severe and when the degree of complementarity/substitutability among sellers' products is higher …

We consider a software vendor first selling a monopoly platform and then an application running on this platform. He … may face competition by an entrant in the applications market. The platform monopolist can benefit from competition for … three reasons. First, his profits from the platform increase. Second, competition serves as a credible commitment to lower …