The rapid rise, expansion, and growing asymmetric power of online platform firms towards other businesses, labor and even the state itself occurred in a context of minimal regulatory oversight. In many respects, because the existing legal system was handicapped in understanding and regulating...

The rise of the platform economy marks the latest phase in the ongoing digital revolution. Indeed, the platform is to this digital era what the factory was to the industrial era, both a symbol and an organizing mechanism. Gernot Grabher and Jonas König (2020) used Karl Polanyi’s analysis of...

The COVID crisis is showing exactly how powerful and resilient the platform giants are and they become even more clear winners in terms of adoption and value capture. Even as the platforms are showing their centrality to society and resilience, the COVID crisis is leading to mass bankruptcies...