Dynamics and Impacts of Platforms and Ecosystems
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Item type: Item , Market-Related and Relational Factors in B2B Platform Ecosystems: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda(2024-01-03) Feike, Maximilian; Roesch, Juergen; Neuhüttler, JensDigital platforms have gained in popularity in B2B markets, leading to increased interest from researchers in IS and neighboring disciplines. Transferring findings from the much-studied B2C platforms is difficult as the two environments differ in numerous ways. Therefore, we argue that there is a need for a deeper understanding of the specific characteristics of B2B platform ecosystems in existing literature, especially from market and relational perspective. Conducting a systematic review with a focus on B2B platform literature from IS and neighboring disciplines, we identify and discuss three relational and four market-related dimensions. This paper contributes to the understanding of B2B platform ecosystems by structuring existing research and by providing starting points for future research.Item type: Item , Risk Management of External Resources in Digital Ecosystems(2024-01-03) Koskinen, Kari; Hyrynsalmi, Sonja; Rossi, Matti; Smolander, KariParticipation in digital ecosystems entails the use of externally provided resources such as data, computing capabilities and digital functionalities. Though in many ways useful, these also create dependencies between organizations and pose them to risks that they have little direct control. The question that emerges is how to manage these type of ecosystem risks, which evolve from the digital dependencies created by the digital interconnections between ecosystem actors. By interviewing relevant personnel from companies participating to digital ecosystems and thus utilizing externally provided digital resources, the research evaluates to what extent existing risk management approaches can be utilized to address ecosystem risks. The research finds that risk management in ecosystems rests more upon rationalization than concrete actions to address risks. It further suggests more collective responses to managing ecosystem risks and, among others, highlights the use of alliances of ecosystem resource-takers to counter ecosystem risks.Item type: Item , Decentralized Autonomous Organizations as a Threat to Centralized Platforms: Applying and Expanding Theories of Platform Competition and Disintermediation(2024-01-03) Ladd, Ted; Barlow, Robert; Giannini, Beau; Pflaum, AnnetteMulti-sided platform marketplaces like Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, and the Apple App Store (to name only those beginning with “A”) dominate many industries already, generating growth and profits that make them among the most valuable companies in the world. Yet a new suite of technologies collectively known as Web3, including blockchain and smart contracts, enable a new type of organization labeled a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that could perform many of the same functions as centralized platform companies, perhaps with an even stronger value proposition for the buyers and sellers in a DAO marketplace. This article uses and expands theories of substitutive competition and disintermediation to explain if and how DAOs might displace centralized platforms.Item type: Item , Designing Digital Platforms as Generative Systems Through the Lens of Complex Adaptive Systems Theory(2024-01-03) Kovacevic-Opacic, Lana; Marjanovic, OliveraAs digital platforms continue to gain momentum, there is a pressing need for a better conceptualization of the ways these generative systems emerge through a deliberate, ongoing design. This design, we claim, is very different from more traditional approaches to Information Systems (IS) design with pre-defined requirements and the known end-goal. Instead, digital platforms are continuingly emerging, in response to changes in their organizational and wider contexts, through mutually-shaping co-evolution. Focusing on a lesser-explored research area of intra-organizational digital platforms, in this paper we describe a case study of the emergence of a novel digital platform through deliberate design. Based on our research findings, observed through the lens of the Complex Adaptive Systems theory, we propose a set of design principles for designing digital platforms as generative systems and discuss their practical implicationsItem type: Item , Introduction to the Minitrack on Dynamics and Impacts of Platforms and Ecosystems(2024-01-03) Still, Kaisa; Huhtamäki, Jukka; Rothe, Hannes