Talking about Platforms

Digital platforms’ boundaries: The interplay of firm scope, platform sides, and digital interfaces Annabelle's Bio: A pioneer of international stature in the field of digital platforms, Prof Annabelle Gawer is Visiting Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Saïd Business School since September 2020. She is Chaired Professor in Digital Economy, Director of the Centre of Digital Economy (CoDE), and Head of the Department of Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation at the University of Surrey Business School. Her most recent 2019 book The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power explains how to build digital platform businesses and clarifies the sources of power of digital platforms. Annabelle was awarded an MSc in Industrial Engineering (Stanford, 1992) and a Ph.D. in Management of Technological Innovation (MIT, 2000). Her first degrees include a Diplôme d’Ingénieur Civil des Mines (Ecole des Mines de Nancy) and an MSc in Applied Mathematics (Université Paris 6). Professional experience included corporate experience in military mobile telecom networks and post-PhD, she has been on the faculty at INSEAD and Imperial College London. Annabelle's Twitter: @AnnabelleGawer Annabelle's University Website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/annabelle-gawer Surrey Centre of Digital Economy (CoDE): https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-digital-economy Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024630120302442

Market Orchestrators: The Effects of Certification on Platforms and Their Complementors Joost's Bio: Joost (/Yoast/) Rietveld is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management. His research interests are at the intersection of technology strategy and innovation management. Joost’s research seeks to understand how inter-organizational dynamics, including platform-complementor relationships, alliances, and mergers and acquisitions, affect product-level outcomes. He is also interested in how digitization facilitates new and innovative ways of doing business including the freemium and platform-based business models. Joost’s research has been published in highly ranked academic journals including Organization Science, Strategy Science, Research Policy, Journal of Management, and the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded finalist in best dissertation competitions organized by INFORMS (TIMES section) and the Academy of Management (TIM Division). Joost has taught courses at various institutions including New York University, the New York Film Academy, and the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University. Joost's Twitter: @gjrietveld Joost's personal website: https://www.strategyguide.nl/gjrietveld/ Link to the paper: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/stsc.2021.0135 Link to the Platform Papers DB: https://platformpapers.com/

Does piracy lead to product abandonment or stimulate new product development?: Evidence from mobile platform-based developer firms Milan's Bio: Milan Miric joined the IS Group within the DSO Department at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations in 2016. His research tries to understand basic questions about how firms can capture and create value in digital industries. In particular, his research tries to understand how the unique structural features of digital industries (network effects, low costs of innovating, non-monetary motivations) influence the process by which firms capture and create value. His work is largely empirical combining large-scale panel datasets with interviews and fieldwork. His research work draws heavily on insights from psychology, economics, and sociology but tries to contribute to the literature on information systems and innovation. Milan's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milanmiric/ Milan's Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LY__IhgAAAAJ&hl=en Link to the Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smj.3208

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