Unpaid Crowd Complementors: The Platform Network Effect Mirage

By Kevin J. Boudreau, Lars Bo Jeppesen. 2015

364 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/aac9b1e0e8d811dd9bedbfbfd276f76e543ad16f

Citations in the corpus

• Crowdfunding models: Keep‐It‐All vs. All‐Or‐Nothing (2019, neutral): “recent research is inconclusive about network benefits arising from the crowd (Bayus, 2013; Boudreau and Jeppesen, 2014), partly because the incentives and motivations among different individuals is heterogeneous (Belenzon and Schankerman, 2015).”
• Understanding platform business models: A mixed methods study of marketplaces (2017, neutral): “…including pricing (Hagiu, 2009), openness (Boudreau, 2010; Gawer, 2015; Casadesus-Masanell & Hałaburda, 2014; Boudreau, 2007), complementor acquisition (Kim et al., 2016; Boudreau & Jeppesen, 2015), and competitive strategies (Hagiu, 2014; Parker & van Alstyne, 2015; Zhu & Iansiti, 2012).”
• Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature (2020, neutral): “Mobile operating systems (Kapoor & Agarwal, 2017), social networking services (Z. Li & Agarwal, 2017), and online video games (Boudreau & Jeppesen, 2015) are but a few examples of industries wherein platforms have become the predominant business model, and firms that successfully operate (in) these…”
• Understanding the intention to buy secondhand clothing on sharing economy platforms: The influence of sustainability, distance from the consumption system, and economic motivations (2020, neutral): “Those studies have dug in depth about the supply side of P2P platforms and how these are increasingly becoming substitutes or complementors vis-a-vis incumbent firms in a number of sectors (e.g., Boudreau & Jeppesen, 2015).”