Platform Ecosystems: Exploring Participation and Performance

Platforms are often seen as the most influential organizational form of our time. Harnessing the strengths of external parties allows for unprecedented innovation (e.g., Facebook, iOS). Platforms aggregate and match participants in fragmented markets (e.g., Craigslist, Marktplaats, Airbnb). As such, platforms often become the epicenters of...

Straws That Tell the Wind: Top-Manager Perception of Distant Signals of the Future

This dissertation was prompted by its author’s amazement that only a handful of financial experts had read the arrival of the 2009 recession in the subprime mortgage problems in the American housing market. Despite hefty confrontations in the media between investment experts during the years leading up to the recession, it took the fall of...

SMEs and supply chain management: A functional perspective