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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Unjustified trust beliefs: Trust conflation on sharing economy platforms
TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-methods, abductive research explores trust conflation by peer consumers who are relatively unfamiliar with a platform, and how this may differ from the trust differentiation of more experienced peer consumers.
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Generativity and the paradox of stability and flexibility in a platform architecture: A case of the Oracle Cloud Platform
TL;DR: This work proposes that generativity also arises from a platform’s three architectural components: the base, the interface, and the add-ons, and reveals how generativity emerges through the paradox of stability and flexibility in a platform's architectural components.
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Crowdsourcing in Sustainable Retail—A Theoretical Framework of Success Criteria
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of crowdsourcing on the sustainable aspects of retailing by applying a theoretical derivation as well as an empirical observation, and constructed a theoretical framework employing the grounded theory approach.
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Moving Consumers from Free to Fee in Platform-Based Markets: An Empirical Study of Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors demonstrate that extending the magnitude of taste differentiation is an effective differentiation strategy and that increasing product differentiation leads to greater perceived value of the service, but undermines fairness perceptions.
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