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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