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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 …
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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 …
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Motivating buyers and sellers to join an empty platform is thought to be a key challenge for firms attempting to launch …
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Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
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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 …
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This paper addresses adverse consequences of the European Union definition of a "service", especially regarding the Digital Single Market Strategy. After an introduction, the second section analyses through legal texts, its somewhat outdated view, where a "service" covers all intangible items....
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competition problems arising in digital platform markets. Alongside a proposal for ex ante regulation in this arena, the European …
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Digital platforms frequently refer their users to competitors. We show that these references induce a business-sharing effect that may relax competition for users, resulting in lower quality of content. More surprisingly, user surplus may also decrease as the quality effect may overwhelm the...
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This article demonstrates the inner relationship between gatekeepers and their complementors and the impact of information sharing on the overall market competition intensity and the economic surplus allocation. Several competition law-based cases are grounded on the incompleteness and...
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This article provides an overview of the competitive issues surrounding online platforms. The general theme is that while much has been made of the structural features of online platforms there is little hard evidence that these are durable monopolies. Nonetheless, there are concerns about the...
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