Many two-sided platforms (e.g., eBay, Google, iOS, Android, Twitter, Amazon) provide integration tools, such as modular interfaces, interactive development environments, application programming interfaces (APIs), and help desks to reduce the costs and improve the functionality of third party...

Platforms are ubiquitous, and their adoption is on the rise in the business to business (B2B) world. However, economic theory characterizing the drivers their adoption has lagged. In the few cases where B2B platforms have been explicitly examined, it is often assumed that they can be understood...

Managers of emerging platforms must decide what level of platform performance to invest in at each product development cycle in markets that exhibit two-sided network externalities. High performance is a selling point for consumers, but in many cases it requires developers to make large...