Produzierende Unternehmen verkaufen zunehmend nicht mehr nur Produkte, sondern Produkt-Service-Systeme (PSS) - ein integriertes Bündel aus Hardware-, Service- und Softwareelementen, um Kundenprobleme zu lösen. PSS sind zwar nichts Neues, haben aber erst in jüngster Zeit durch das Aufkommen...

Moderne Monopole -- Die strukturbedingte Tendenz digitaler Plattformen zur Bildung moderner Monopole -- Die Personalisierung digitaler Plattformen – Ausgangspunkt einer algorithmenbasierten Marktmachtstellung -- Empirische Identifikation von Nutzerpräferenzen bei Content-Plattformen -- Die...

Digital platforms already dominate the top 10 of the world's most valuable firms. The specific characteristics of their business model, such as quick growth and market power soon after market entry, have provoked public discourse. This paper analyzes digital platforms' business models, the...

Digital platforms controlled by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Tencent and Uber have transformed not only the ways we do business, but also the very nature of people's everyday lives. It is of vital importance that we understand the economic principles governing how these...

Contents: Section 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Digital innovation: Towards a transdisciplinary perspective (Nambisan, Lyytinen, Yoo) -- Section 2: Foundations of digital innovation -- Introduction to section 2 (Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) -- Chapter 2: The new wave of digital innovation: the need...

Introduction -- Contents discourse: a platform prelude -- Platform typology: from hardware to contents -- The Japanese genesis of transactional platform theory -- Docomo's i-mode and the formatting of the mobile internet -- Platforms after i-mode: Dwango's Niconico video -- Conclusion: the...