Platforms are ubiquitous, and their adoption is on the rise in the business to business (B2B) world. However, economic theory characterizing the drivers their adoption has lagged. In the few cases where B2B platforms have been explicitly examined, it is often assumed that they can be understood...

book 1. Accounting: Introducing financial statements ; Reporting profit or loss in the income statement ; Reporting financial condition in the balance sheet ; Reporting cash sources and uses in the statement of cash flows ; Reading a financial report -- book 2. Operations management: Designing...

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...