Introduction -- Part 1: The Platform Economy -- Chapter 1: The Rise of Digital Platforms and their Legal Regulation in ESG Perspective -- Chapter 2: Solovtsov A.O. Factors of Development & Success of Digital Platforms -- Chapter 3: Evolution of Digital Platforms to Ecosystems: Is the Digital...

Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Studying Digitalization Across Levels: An Overview and Introduction -- Part 2. Outsourcing and Multi-party Projects: Reflections and Experiences -- Chapter 2. The Early History of It Outsourcing – a Personal Reflection -- Chapter 3. How to Ensure Collective...

Part I. Theoretical Foundations -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Sandro Mezzadra) -- Chapter 2. Operations of Platforms. A Global Process in a Multipolar World (Sandro Mezzadra) -- Chapter 3. The process of valorization in the platform capitalism (Andrea Fumagalli) -- Chapter 4. Out of the Standard....

"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the areas of e-commerce and the collaborative economy or sharing economy, offering a comprehensive perspective on the platform economy by connecting both the e-commerce and the collaborative economy...

Emerging out of the collaborative work conducted within the Working Group “Mechanisms to activate and support the collaborative economy” of the COST Action “From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy”, the book questions the varied set of...

This dissertation studies problems of managing the operations in online platforms, especially when the behavior of agents on the platform is leveraged by users/platform managers to make better decisions. We study three distinct online platforms with unique challenges: in online crowdfunding...