Platform ecosystems: How developers invert the firm

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 255-266

  Parker, Geoffrey ^a   Van Alstyne, Marshall ^b   Jiang, Xiaoyue ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundling; Intellectual property; Network effects; Network externalities; Open innovation; Platform; Platforms; R D spillovers; Sequential innovation; Standard setting organizations; Two sided markets; Two sided networks; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

BUNDLING; NETWORK EFFECTS; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; OPEN INNOVATION; PLATFORM; PLATFORMS; SEQUENTIAL INNOVATIONS; STANDARD SETTING ORGANIZATION; TWO-SIDED MARKETS; VERTICAL INTEGRATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 85016324951     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2017/41.1.13     Document Type: Article

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