Multi-sided platforms must make decisions on both pricing and engineering investment and must continually adjust them as the platform scales over its lifecycle. Engineering investments can be allocated to features that improve a platform’s standalone value, social features to take advantage of...

As the number and scope of platform companies grow, platform-specific talent and leadership demands have grown. This paper explores the growing demand for platform professionals and leadership competencies. The authors collected and analyzed over 11,080 platform job postings over one year by...

Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. Alle diese Unternehmen revolutionierten die Märkte. Heute sind sie Branchenführer. Was ist das Geheimnis ihres Erfolgs? Diesen innovativen Unternehmen liegt das Plattform-Geschäftsmodell zugrunde. Ob Plattformen Verkäufer und Käufer zusammenbringen,...

Electricity market design in the United States is increasingly dominated by locational marginal pricing (LMP) of energy and transmission. LMP markets are typically coupled with periodic auctions of financial transmission rights (FTRs) to hedge transmission price risks. While LMP designs offer...

This article describes six common challenges of design, incentives, and governance that arise in establishing platform businesses. It also proposes solutions. It considers, for example, how to open a platform to decentralized innovation yet still earn a return; how to incorporate best-of-breed...

Annabelle Gawer presents cutting-edge contributions from 24 top international scholars from 19 universities across Europe, the USA and Asia, from the disciplines of strategy, economics, innovation, organization studies and knowledge management. The novel insights assembled in this volume...