Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?

By Andrei Hagiu. 2007

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators (2008, unknown): “Perhaps most broadly, metaphors of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ platforms convey something of how restrictive or liberal a platform may be in its dealings with surrounding constituents (Shapiro and Varian, 1998; West, 2003; Hagiu, 2007; Boudreau, 2008a; Parker and Van Alstyne, 2008).”
Competition and Coordination in Online Marketplaces (2012, methodology): “1 Of course, Amazon is also in the business of selling products themselves, i.e., Amazon also plays the traditional “merchant” role, in which it buys goods from suppliers and resells them to consumers (Hagiu 2007).”
Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation (2013, background): “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.”
Why do intermediaries divert search (2009, unknown): “Since (12) is obtained from (3) simply replacing  by  − ∗ and e 1 by e 1 + ∗, we can repeat the analysis in section 3.”
Marketplace or Reseller? (2015, unknown): “…to recent eﬀorts to expand the formal study of strategic decisions made by platforms beyond pricing (see, for example, The importance of the strategic choice between marketplaces and resellers, and some of the tradeoﬀs that can arise are discussed in Hagiu (2007) and Hagiu and Wright (2011, 2013).”