Closed or open platform? the nature of platform and a qualitative comparative analysis of the performance effect of platform openness

Wang, Jiexiang; Guo, Bin; Wang, Xiaoyan; Lou, Shuzhen

doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2020.101007

Cited by 12 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 55 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Originating in the automobile industry in the 20th century ( Steinberg, 2022 ), open platforms nowadays provide digital architectures (such as the California State University website above) which others can use on their own account. Platform openness therefore refers to the degree to which public users have access to such platforms or even control over them: Apple is open in allowing access, but closed in retaining strict control ( Boudreau, 2010 ; Wang, Guo, Wang, & Lou, 2020 ). For open platforms, therefore, the importance of access renders at least a basic form of inclusivity as primary, but transparency is typically secondary as being at the platform owners’ discretion while decision rights are marginal as being reserved for these same owners.…”

Section: Domains and Dimensions Of Open Organizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue

Splitter

Dobusch

Krogh

et al. 2022

Organization Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

‘Openness’ has become an organizational leitmotif of our time, spreading across a growing set of organizational domains. However, discussions within these specialized domains (e.g. open data, open government or open innovation) treat openness in isolation and specific to the particularities of those domains. The intention of this Special Issue therefore is to foster cross-domain conversations to exchange insights and build cumulative knowledge on openness. To do so, this Introduction to the Special Issue argues that openness should be investigated as a general organizing principle, which we refer to as Open Organizing. Across domains, we define Open Organizing as a dynamic organizing principle along the primary dimension of transparency/opacity and the secondary dimensions of inclusion/exclusion and distributed/concentrated decision rights. As such, Open Organizing raises an overarching problem of design, which results from more specific epistemic, normative and political challenges.

show abstract

Section: Domains and Dimensions Of Open Organizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue

Splitter

Dobusch

Krogh

et al. 2022

Organization Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…On the one hand, the adoption of this method allows for comparative analysis across cases from a holistic perspective and helps to explore causal complexity issues, such as which configurations of conditional elements cause the occurrence of expected outcomes and which cause the absence or non‐existence of expected outcomes. On the other hand, as a new research area, it is very difficult to collect samples for platform research, and there is still a lack of specialized databases; thus, the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) method applied to small samples (Wang et al, 2020) is very useful in this study.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unleashing the power of big data for platform firms: A configuration analysis

Wang,

Yuan,

2023

Manage Decis Econ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study investigates the impact of big data on platform performance using a multidimensional perspective and the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method. We identify two pathways for platforms to leverage big data to achieve performance improvement: “volume‐centric configuration” and “volume‐talent synergistic configuration.” Our results indicate that big data volume and talent of big data are the core conditions impacting platform performance, but an increase in these factors does not always equate to an improvement in performance. The study makes two substantial contributions: (1) identifying the configurations of big data that lead to high performance of the platform and illuminating the complex interplay of causality between the multidimensional nature of big data resources and their supporting conditions and (2) measuring the multidimensionality of big data resources in platform firms through the utilization of operational data of the app in question. This study has significant practical implications, providing guidance to platform firms on identifying appropriate big data resources to gain a competitive advantage and utilizing supporting conditions to address deficiencies in data assets.

show abstract

“…This work also contributes to the literature on platform retailing (Jiang et al, 2011;Wang et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2020;Wei et al, 2020;Qin et al, 2021). Some studies examine the effects of some important factors on platform retailing, such as the substitutability of two products (Jerath and Zhang, 2010), online product reviews (Kwark et al, 2013;Song et al, 2020), marketing efforts (Hagiu and Wright, 2016), and the degree of competition between platforms (Abhishek et al, 2016).…”

Section: Platform Retailingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retailer's selling mode choice under different competition forms

Wang

et al. 2022

Int Trans Operational Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We examine the online retailer's selling mode choice under different competition forms in an online retailing supply chain. Four models based on two selling modes (i.e., agency selling and direct selling) and two competition forms (i.e., Bertrand and Cournot) are constructed, and the conditions for the online retailer to choose the optimal selling mode are identified. The results show that the online retailer's optimal choice of selling mode is mainly affected by the direct selling cost under Bertrand competition, whereas it is affected jointly by the direct selling cost, competition intensity, and commission rate under Cournot competition. Additionally, in the direct selling mode, both the online retailer and platform can obtain more profits under Cournot competition; however, in the agency selling mode, the online retailer can benefit from Bertrand competition when the commission rate is moderate, and Cournot competition otherwise. Finally, the effects of competition intensity, commission rate, and direct selling cost on the profits of the online retailer and platform are investigated by numerical analysis.

show abstract

Closed or open platform? the nature of platform and a qualitative comparative analysis of the performance effect of platform openness

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue

Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue

Unleashing the power of big data for platform firms: A configuration analysis

Retailer's selling mode choice under different competition forms

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About