Two-Sided Network Effects: A Theory of Information Product Design

By Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne. Management Sciences, 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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The Role of IS Capabilities in the Development of Multi-Sided Platforms: The Digital Ecosystem Strategy of Alibaba.com (2015, background): “Parker & van Alstyne (2005) Empirical Firms can give away products if it can cover the cost through complementary products.”
Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature (2020, positive): “…Brynjolfsson & Kemerer, 1996; Gupta, Jain, & Sawhney, 1999; Zhu & Iansiti, 2012); pricing strategies for multisided platforms (e.g., Hagiu, 2006; Parker & Van Alstyne, 2005; Rochet & Tirole, 2003); the effective governance of platforms (e.g., Huber, Kude & Dibbern, 2017; Rietveld, Schilling, &…”
Understanding the intention to buy secondhand clothing on sharing economy platforms: The influence of sustainability, distance from the consumption system, and economic motivations (2020, positive): “Thus, they are complementing extant economic theories of multi-sided and two-sided platforms (Casadesus-Masanell & Hałaburda, 2014; Eisenmann, Parker, & Van Alstyne, 2011; Parker & Alstyne, 2005; Parker, Van Alstyne, & Choudary, 2016; Rochet & Tirole, 2003, 2006).”
Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation (2015, background): “Closer to our work is the burgeoning literature on multi-sided platforms, pioneered by Caillaud and Jullien (2003), Rochet and Tirole (2003), Parker and Alstyne (2005), and Armstrong (2006).”
Introduction to the Special Issue - Social Media and Business Transformation: A Framework for Research (2013, background): “Prior work has examined platform competition (Eisenmann et al. 2006), platform openness and innovation (Boudreau 2010), and platform pricing and product design in two-sided markets (Parker and Van Alstyne 2005).”
Elucidating Individual Intention to Use Interactive Information Technologies: The Role of Network Externalities (2008, background): “, increased availability of buyers/sellers or airlines) have driven the growth of initial e-commerce sites such as eBay and Expedia, latergeneration e-commerce sites such as MySpace and Second Life are driven almost entirely by network considerations [31, 43].”