Platform ecosystems have become dominant structures shaping a range of markets. Despite the increasing research attention placed on platforms and their ecosystems, the basic model comprising the platform and its sides does not consider the constellation of firms that has emerged to assist...

Racially biased outcomes have increasingly been recognized as a problem that can infect software algorithms and datasets of all types. Digital platforms, in particular, are organizing ever greater portions of social, political, and economic life. This essay examines and organizes current...

Online digital platforms organize and mediate an ever-increasing share of economic and societal activities. Moreover, the opportunities that platform-mediated markets offer not only attract enormous numbers of entrepreneurs, but also support the growth of entire ecosystems of producers, sellers,...