Over the past three decades, platform competition—the competition between firms that
facilitate transactions and govern interactions between two or more distinct user groups who …

Research summary: A substantial and burgeoning body of research has described the
influence of platform‐mediated networks in a wide variety of settings, whereby users and …

We analyze the role and effect of ecosystem leadership understood as the exercise of effort
towards others with the purpose of establishing and maintaining an ecosystem around a …

Over the past decade, the rise of blockchain technology has led to the emergence of a
growing number of decentralized platforms that are governed less by platform owners and …

The concept of an 'innovation ecosystem'is increasingly used to describe collectives of
heterogeneous, yet complementary organizational actors who jointly create some kind of …

Platform sponsors typically have both incentive and opportunity to manage the overall value
of their ecosystems. Through selective promotion, a platform sponsor can reward successful …

Platform-based technology ecosystems are new forms of organizing independent actors'
innovations around a stable product system. This collective organization is proving superior …

Multisided platforms such as Apple's App Store and Valve's Steam become increasingly
dominant when more end users and complement producers join their ecosystems. Despite …

Innovation is one of the most important issues in business research today. It has been
studied in many independent research traditions. Our understanding and study of innovation …

This paper examines the relative importance of platform quality, indirect network effects, and
consumer expectations on the success of entrants in platform‐based markets. We develop a …