The emergence of the platform economy is reorganizing work, employment and value creation. We argue that the digital platforms are fracturing work itself as the places and types of work are being reorganized into a myriad of platform organized work arrangements with workplaces being potentially...

This essay examines the implications of the evolving environment for the formation and financing new firms. "Unicorn" became an emblem of the newly founded firm that had rapidly grown to a value of a billion or more US dollars. However, there has been a downside, and new dilemmas, with rapidly...

The recent emergence of Chinese digital platform firms whose size rivals that of the US platform giants has attracted much popular interest. Given the size and increasing technical sophistication of these firms, there has been increasing interest in whether they have developed sufficient...