Preparing Future Business Data Sharing via a Meta-Platform for Data Marketplaces: Exploring Antecedents and Consequences of Data Sovereignty

Meta-platforms have received considerable Information Systems scholarly attention in recent years. Meta-platforms enable platform-to-platform openness and are especially beneficial to amplifying network effects in highly-specialized markets. A promising emerging context for applying meta-platforms is data marketplaces—a special type of digital...

Standardization for platform ecosystems

A Systems Thinking approach towards Reuse: Digital Platform Ecosystem facilitating building design with recoverable elements

Although the construction industry has made considerable progress in reducing the environmental impacts by waste diversion, the consumption rate of natural resources for construction material is still on the higher side. Hence, there needs to be a higher emphasis on reusing old building components in new construction without down-cycling them...

An open platform centric approach for scalable government service delivery to the poor: The Aadhaar case

The efficient delivery of government services to the poor, or Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP), faces many challenges. While a core problem is the lack of scalability, that could be solved by the rapid proliferation of platforms and associated ecosystems. Existing research involving platforms focus on modularity, openness, ecosystem leadership and...

Launch strategies for multi-sided data analyt-ics platforms

Launching multi-sided platforms is challenging as providers have to gather a critical mass of users in multiple target groups. Various `launch strategies' can be derived from existing platform literature, such as price subsidization, platform openness and coring. However, studies on the utility of these launch strategies for informing design...

Digital innovation in platform-based ecosystems: An evolutionary framework

Creating a digital platform to leverage the potential of an ecosystem is recognized as an effective strategy to optimize innovation efforts in the digital era. In this paper, we analyze how platform-based ecosystems can ensure the commercialization of a constant flow of digital innovations. Our contribution focuses the role of platform-owners...

Platform ecosystems in Mobile for Development

The use of next generation mobile internet is increasing in developing countries and provide end-users in developing countries with access to worldwide mobile services. The consequences for operators are declining revenues per user because of the increased use of mobile internet and decreased use of voice and text services. The declining...