How Catalysts Ignite: The Economics of Platform-Based Start-Ups

By David S. Evans. 2009

145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1fbb0635646384c5207ed01500260dadb953ecd1

Citations in the corpus

• Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom? An Early Look at Large Numbers of Software App Developers and Patterns of Innovation (2012, unknown): “Strong network effects can also create a “chicken and egg” problem, whereby a platform may have difficulty attracting members to get off the ground (Eisenmann and Hagiu 2008, Evans 2009, Evans and Schmalensee 2009).”
• Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation (2013, unknown): “In a welcome development, however, Evans (2009) focuses on start-up platform strategies, while Hagiu (2007b), Eisenmann et al. (2009), and Boudreau and Hagiu (2009) focus on the importance of non-price mechanisms for the governance of platform ecosystems.”
• Failure to Launch: Critical Mass in Platform Businesses (2010, unknown): “Finally, as Evans (2009) and the brief case studies herein indicate, a variety of tactics have been employed during the launch of platform businesses.”