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Governance Mechanisms in Digital Platform Ecosystems: Addressing the Generativity-Control Tension

2022 , Staub, Nicola , Haki, Kazem , Aier, Stephan , Winter, Robert

Digital platform owners repeatedly face paradoxical design decisions with regard to their platforms’ generativity and control, requiring them to facilitate co-innovation whilst simultaneously retaining control over third-party complementors. To address this challenge, platform owners deploy a variety of governance mechanisms. However, researchers and practitioners currently lack a coherent understanding of what major governance mechanisms platform owners rely on to simultaneously foster generativity and control. Conducting a structured literature review, we connect the fragmented academic discourse on governance mechanisms with each aspect of the generativity-control tension. Next to providing avenues for prospective digital platform research, we elaborate on the double-sidedness of governance mechanisms in fostering both generativity and control.

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Taxonomy of Digital Platforms: A Business Model Perspective

2021 , Staub, Nicola , Haki, Kazem , Aier, Stephan , Winter, Robert

Digital platforms (DPs) – technical core artifacts augmented by peripheral third-party complementary resources – facilitate the interaction and collaboration of different actors through highly-efficient resource matching. As DPs differ significantly in their configurations and applications, it is important from both a descriptive and a design perspective to define classes of DPs. As an intentionally designed artifact, every classification pursues a certain purpose. In this research, the purpose is to classify DPs from a business model perspective, i.e. to identify DP clusters that each share a similar business model type. We follow Nickerson et al.’s (2013) method for taxonomy development. By validating the conceptually derived design dimensions with ten DP cases, we identify platform structure and platform participants as the major clustering constituent characteristics. Building on the proposed taxonomy, we derive four DP archetypes that follow distinct design configurations, namely business innovation platforms, consumer innovation platforms, business exchange platforms and consumer exchange platforms.

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PLATFORM OVER MARKET – WHEN IS JOINING A PLATFORM BENEFICIAL?

2021 , Schmid, Marius , Haki, Kazem , Tanriverdi, Hüseyin , Aier, Stephan , Winter, Robert

Firms struggle to meet dynamically changing customers’ needs. One challenge is to navigate a complex search space to find resources needed for innovations that meet customers’ needs. Another challenge is to acquire the resources at lower costs than revenue opportunities to yield profitability. Digital platforms promise to address these challenges better than the market by providing search matching capabilities and modular, reusable resources. We examine whether platforms improve innovation performance and profitability of firms better than the market, as assumed. Using agent-based modeling and simulation, we find that firms perform better in the market when environmental complexity is low. As environmental complexity increases, firms start to perform better on the platform than in the market, specifically when the platform owner remarkably invests in search matching and modularity capabilities. The study advances our understanding of the environmental conditions under which platforms could be superior or inferior to the market.

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Taming Complexity in Business Ecosystems: Investigating the Role of Platforms

2021 , Schmid, Marius , Haki, Kazem , Tanriverdi, Hüseyin , Aier, Stephan

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Implementation of Platform Governance Mechanisms: Insights from a B2B Platform Ecosystem

2023 , Staub, Nicola , Za, Stefano , Winter, Robert , Lazazzara, Alessandra

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Towards an Understanding of the Platform Phenomenon: An Agent-based Simulation Approach

2022 , Schmid, Marius

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Acquisition of Complementors as a Strategy for Evolving Digital Platform Ecosystems

2021-12 , Staub, Nicola , Haki, Kazem , Aier, Stephan , Winter, Robert , Magan, Adolfo

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Evolution of B2B Platform Ecosystems: What Can Be Learned from Salesforce?

2021 , Staub, Nicola , Haki, Kazem , Aier, Stephan , Winter, Robert , Magan, Adolfo

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Digital Nudging for Technical Debt Management: Insights from a Technology-driven Organization

2021-01-05 , Buchmann, Lorena , Haki, Kazem

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Developing Design Principles for Digital Platforms: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

2020 , Schmid, Marius , Haki, Kazem , Aier, Stephan , Winter, Robert