The resource‐based view is an enduring and impactful mainstay of research within strategic
management and beyond. This editors' introduction to the special issue on “new directions …

Digital business platforms (DBPs) such as eBay, Google, and Uber Technologies have seen
enormous growth; this paper explores their salient characteristics, the role of marketing in …

As downstream actors providing innovations that enhance the value of the core proposition,
complementors have been recognized as indispensable in many definitions of ecosystems …

Abstract Research Summary Digital firms tend to be both narrow in their vertical scope and
large in their scale. We explain this phenomenon through a theory about how attributes of …

Abstract Research Summary Software platforms create value by cultivating an ecosystem of
complementary products and services. Existing explanations for how a prospective …

Social collaborative design rooted in online platforms has emerged as a new paradigm for
product innovation, with open and dynamic design elements bringing about external design …

How should platform managers recognize a sudden ecosystem collapse and prevent it?
While previous studies have focused on the evolution of platform ecosystems, few have …

The theory of platform envelopment rests on network effects as the key mechanism for value
creation, which nonetheless receives mixed support for its efficacy in determining …

As society continues to develop, a growing body of research is focusing on how informal
institutions, such as culture, influence corporate behavior and economic outcomes. The aim …

Research summary How do entrepreneurs on a sharing economy platform (SEP) with a limit
to aggregate output (capacity constraints) respond to a platform design change emphasizing …