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of the unique and essential components—the strategic bottlenecks in the system. However, most platforms must also execute … a series of steps which are subject to “flow production” bottlenecks. Finding and fixing these flow bottlenecks is … “disintermediating” platform components. I describe four generic methods of disintermediation: substitution; reverse engineering …
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The purpose of this chapter is to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive theoretical investigation of open platform systems. To do this, we must first recognize that, although there is a strong family resemblance among all platform systems, there are different types of platforms, each with its...
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We consider a software vendor first selling a monopoly platform and then an application running on this platform. He … over to non-software platforms and, partially, to upstream and downstream firms. The model also explains why Microsoft …
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addition, these platforms have not taken significant measures to address "fake-news", bots, trolls, or other malicious software …
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addition, these platforms have not taken significant measures to address "fake‐news", bots, trolls, or other malicious software …
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Multi-sided platforms (MSPs), which bring together two or more interdependent groups of customers, have recently risen to economic and business prominence in many industries. This paper first lays out a simple micro-founded framework which aims to organize academic and managerial thinking about...
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This paper provides a first pass at clarifying the economic tradeoffs between two polar strategies for market intermediation: the merchant mode, in which the intermediary buys from sellers and resells to buyers; and the two-sided platform mode, under which the intermediary enables affiliated...
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This article provides an encyclopedic survey of the platform strategy literature and is organized around launch strategies, governance, and competition. A platform strategy is the mobilization of a networked business platform to expand into and operate in a given market. A business platform, in...
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Studying the US personal computer industry from its inception in 1974 through 1994, we address the following questions. What product technology strategies increase the survival chances of entrants into new, technologically dynamic industries? Does the effectiveness of these strategies differ by...
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