Introduction-Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age
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This editorial reviews key insights from the literature on digital infrastructures and platforms, present emerging research themes, highlight the contributions developed from each of the six articles in this special issue, and conclude with suggestions for further research.Abstract:
In the last few years, leading-edge research from information systems, strategic management, and economics have separately informed our understanding of platforms and infrastructures in the digital age. Our motivation for undertaking this special issue rests in the conviction that it is significant to discuss platforms and infrastructures concomitantly, while enabling knowledge from diverse disciplines to cross-pollinate to address critical, pressing policy challenges and inform strategic thinking across both social and business spheres. In this editorial, we review key insights from the literature on digital infrastructures and platforms, present emerging research themes, highlight the contributions developed from each of the six articles in this special issue, and conclude with suggestions for further research.read more
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Artificial Intelligence Platforms – A New Research Agenda for Digital Platform Economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have divided the proposed AI platforms research agenda as follows: the first set of questions relate to an overall conceptualization of AI platforms, which need to be investigated in detail to gain understanding that is more complete.
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The architectural design and implementation of a digital platform for Industry 4.0 SME collaboration
Zixu Liu,Pedro Sampaio,Grigory Pishchulov,Nikolay Mehandjiev,Sonia Cisneros-Cabrera,Arnd Schirrmann,Filip Jiru,Nisrine Bnouhanna +7 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors present the architectural design and implementation of DIGICOR, a collaborative Industry 4.0 (I4.0) platform aimed at enabling SMEs to dynamically form supply-chain collaborations so as to pool production capacities and capabilities and jointly address complex supply chain requests.
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The Role of Entrepreneurial Agility in Digital Entrepreneurship and Creating Value in Response to Digital Disruption in the Newspaper Industry
Jahangir Karimi,Zhiping Walter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how entrepreneurial agility can combine or integrate opportunity-and advantage-seeking behaviors for product and business model innovation to pursue digital entrepreneurship, to foster sustainable processes and practices, and to create value in response to digital disruption.
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Capabilities for Digital Platform Survival: Insights from a Business-to-Business Digital Platform
TL;DR: This study investigates digital platforms’ sustained growth—referred to as digital platform permanence in this study—and identifies four key capabilities that reflect the owner’s ability to facilitate value co-creation processes on the service ecosystem level.
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Factors affecting digital technology adoption by small-scale farmers in agriculture value chains (AVCs) in South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, digital technologies enable small-scale farmers to reduce some constraints to participate in Agriculture Value Chains (AVCs). Small-scale farms face significant challenges and barriers to adoptin...
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