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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Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda
TL;DR: A framework of digital transformation articulated across eight building blocks is built that foregrounds digital transformation as a process where digital technologies create disruptions triggering strategic responses from organizations that seek to alter their value creation paths while managing the structural changes and organizational barriers that affect the positive and negative outcomes of this process.
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Blockchain applications in supply chains, transport and logistics : a systematic review of the literature
TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature finds four main clusters in the co-citation analysis, namely Technology, Trust, Trade, and Traceability/Transparency, and discusses the emerging themes and applications of blockchains for supply chains, logistics and transport.
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From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
TL;DR: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies as mentioned in this paper is an excellent overview of the second machine age and its evolution in the 21st century.
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Digital platform ecosystems
Andreas Hein,Maximilian Schreieck,Tobias Riasanow,David Soto Setzke,Manuel Wiesche,Markus Böhm,Helmut Krcmar +6 more
TL;DR: This Fundamentals article first synthesize research on digital platforms and digital platform ecosystems to provide a definition that integrates both concepts, and uses this definition to explain how differentdigital platform ecosystems vary according to three core building blocks.
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The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View
TL;DR: This paper argues that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms, and describes three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices and layer maps.
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Benefiting from innovation: Value creation, value appropriation and the role of industry architectures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how innovators benefit from value appropriation and creation, and they provide an integrative guide that explains how firms should manage their position along the value chain to capture returns from innovation.
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Using the crowd as an innovation partner.
Kevin Boudreau,Karim R. Lakhani +1 more
TL;DR: After a decade of study, the authors identify when crowds tend to outperform internal organizations (or not) and outline four ways to tap into crowd-powered problem solving--contests, collaborative communities, complementors, and labor markets--and offer a system for picking the best one in a given situation.
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Technology Success and Failure in Winner-Take-All Markets: The Impact of Learning Orientation, Timing, and Network Externalities
TL;DR: In industries characterized by network externalities, a single technology standard often rises to dominance, locking out competing technologies as discussed by the authors, and despite the path dependability of path dependents, the standard often wins out.
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Technical Debt: From Metaphor to Theory and Practice
TL;DR: This paper proposes an organization of the technical debt landscape, and introduces the papers on technical debt contained in the issue.