This article examines two main strategic tradeoffs a platform firm may face when structuring its content offer. First, we study whether maximizing the amount of content released in exclusivity to the platform complement a strategy aimed at maximizing the content size and variety. Second, we...

We consider the merits of the recent EU’s Digital Markets Act from the perspective of innovation and value creation. We conceptualize innovation as new interactions being created by the digital platform leading to ‘value creation’, in contrast to facilitating existing interactions or...

The Digital Markets Act makes clear choices about important tradeoffs in value to constrain the arbitrary power and dominance of gatekeepers over digital markets and guarantee a more equitable distribution of value with business users. We argue that the extent those objectives will be realized...

Platform-based technology ecosystems are new forms of organizing independent actors' innovations around a stable product system. This collective organization is proving superior to traditional, vertically integrated systems in many sectors because of greater “generativity” – the...