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The evolution of platform business models: Exploring competitive battles in the world of platforms

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posted on 2019-07-15, 08:48 authored by Yang Zhao, Stephan Von Delft, Anna Morgan-Thomas, Trevor Buck
In recent decades, multi-sided platform business models have become an important avenue for value creation and capture, but the phenomenon itself remains under-theorized. We address this gap and present new, empirically-driven insights into how platform business models evolve in a context of fierce competition. Through a longitudinal, qualitative study of twelve multi-sided platforms that operate under challenging industry conditions, we discover that success in platform battles can plausibly be explained by a combination of complexity in the business model design, and the simultaneous use of innovation and imitation to create highly intricate systems of activities. We further discuss how our findings open several new avenues for future platform research.

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  • Loughborough University London

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Long Range Planning

Volume

53

Issue

4

Pages

101892

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ZHAO, Y. ... et al, 2019. The evolution of platform business models: Exploring competitive battles in the world of platforms. Long Range Planning, Doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2019.101892

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Elsevier BV © The Authors

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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2019-07-11

Publication date

2019-07-13

Copyright date

2020

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This is an Open Access article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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0024-6301

Language

  • en

Article number

101892

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