How Companies Become Platform Leaders

By Annabelle Gawer, Michael A. Cusumano. 2008

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City-as-a-Platform: The Rise of Participatory Innovation Platforms in Finnish Cities (2016, background): “Even if the identification of this trend is largely based on observations on successful information technology, Internet, software, e-commerce and social media companies—most notably Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, eBay and Facebook—and can thus be seen as an exaggerated story derived from”
Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation (2013, background): “…by highlighting the complex trade-offs between “open” and “closed” (Eisenmann, Parker and Van Alstyne, 2009; Greenstein, 2009; Schilling, 2009; Gawer and Cusumano, 2008), suggest that while opening up interfaces will increase complementors’ incentives to innovate, it is important to…”
Architectural leverage: putting platforms in context (2014, background): “In addition, the technology system stream explicitly recognizes the importance of the resulting industrial community and surrounding ecosystem to the success of the platform (Cusumano & Gawer, 2002; Gawer & Cusumano, 2008).”
Technology Ecosystem Governance (2014, background): “The core firm’s product has important, but limited, value when used alone, but substantially increases in value when used with complements (Gawer and Cusumano, 2002, 2008).”
Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control (2018, background): “Further, platforms are building blocks serving as a foundation for constructing complementary products and services (Gawer and Cusumano 2002, 2008; Gawer and Henderson 2007), or as systems for matching buyers and suppliers who transact with each other using system resources (Hagiu and Wright 2015)…”
Marketplace or Reseller? (2015, unknown): “Comparing (11) and (12) we obtain: Proposition 2 The M -mode is preferred to the R-mode if and only if Vδ ≥ Vγ + x 2(N−1)(2) 4 .”
Multi-Sided Platforms (2015, unknown): “Thus, such stores along with most other retailers appear to be MSPs according to the definitions above, yet most economists would agree that they are not.”
Towards a theory of ecosystems (2018, unknown): “Gulati et al. (2012) considered ecosystem membership to be “open”—that is, not granted bilaterally between hub and prospective member, but based on self-selection.”
Platform Ecosystems: How Developers Invert the Firm (2017, unknown): “A growing literature has focused on leadership (Gawer and Cusumano 2008), economics (Bresnahan and Greenstein 1999; Farrell et al. 1998), launch (Bhargava et al. 2013), and strategies for managing platforms (Boudreau 2010; Cusumano 2010).”
Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions (2015, background): “These digital infrastructures enable the generativity of the digital platform upon which many organizations are able to innovate (Cusumano 2012; Gawer and Cusumano 2008; Yoo et al. 2012; Zittrain 2006).”
Incumbent Performance in the Face of a Radical Innovation: Towards a Framework for Incumbent Challenger Dynamics (2012, background): “Incumbents manage tradeoffs between controlling product platforms while incentivizing third parties to create complements (Gawer and Cusumano, 2008) in order to sustain an advantage over new entrants without a well-developed complementary ecosystem for their innovation.”
Digital platforms for development: Foundations and research agenda (2021, background): “Traditionally, the digital platform literature refers to a ‘ platform ecosystem ’ (Jacobides et al., 2018) to the broad set of actors that contribute to the functioning of a given platform (Ceccagnoli et al., 2012; Gawer & Cusumano, 2008).”