The platform economy is the embodiment of the activities carried out by its influential players, which by their very nature are new markets, facilitating the matching of suppliers and customers. A new market entails access to or even joint use of underused assets, provision of new working places, and simplification of human life with online transactions and services, which serves the assumption that the platform economy is able to undertake sustainable development and may meet a number of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) introduced in 2015. First, this paper aims to study whether the platform business model entails sustainability as its integral core concept. Second, it attempts to assess if platform companies from two selected industries—ride-sharing services and EdTech—meet SDGs comparably better than their predecessor linear companies in transportation and education. The study carries out an empirical analysis of eight companies. The results indicate that platform companies demonstrate a relatively lower commitment to SDGs compared to linear transnational firms, which can be explained by the level of maturity of platform companies and their still mostly non-public nature.
The main purpose of this paper is to study the influence of home-multinational enterprises on country global competitiveness and to determine how this influence changes with the stage of country competitiveness. Based on the regression model, Variance Inflation Factor test and Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering method, we analyzed the WEF Global Competitiveness Index 2017–2018 of those countries whose multinational firms were included into the Forbes Global 2000 list of 2017. The findings highlighted the important role of home-MNEs as determinants of countries‘ competitiveness, however MNE-related contribution of different pillars and components of the Global Competitiveness Index vary, depending on the stage of competitiveness of the studied 58 countries.
I-business firms are upraising their capitalization compared to traditional pipeline businesses due to value cocreation with other participants -complementors, supply-side and demand-side users -forming a business ecosystem. The paper discusses the concept of value creation for platform firms and analyzes i-firms ' integration in the global value chains under the influence of Industry 4.0. It results in providing the models of contemporary GVCs with i-business firms embedded in them.
This article raises the topical issue of determining the place and relationship of the digital and platform economies. Every year, new research institutes, initiatives, and ratings appear that explore platform companies and their platform business model. The main research directions of foreign and Russian research centers, initiatives that devote their research to the platform economy, platforms and platform business models are considered and systematized. The author solves the task of analyzing the works devoted to the platform economy, determining the formation level of theoretical understanding and explaining the legality of considering the analyzed term as a definition of a system of relationships and a component of a digital economy. The review and critical evaluation of international ratings of the platform economy subjects – platform companies. The instrumental and methodological apparatus of the research is based on the use of qualitative analysis with the application of observation and measurement, a systematic approach, methods and methods of grouping, generalization of theoretical and factual material, modeling and tools for graphical interpretation of conceptual dependencies.
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