Platform rules: Multi-sided platforms as regulators

Platforms, Markets and Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 163-191

  Boudreau, Kevin J ^a   Hagiu, Andrei ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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