Emerging platform governance: antitrust reform and non-competitive harms in digital platform markets

Popiel, Pawel

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2023.2174791

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“…The analysis even extends to the future, as we note legitimate apprehension over BT's possible use of AI to further enhance their alleged anticompetitive and collusive practices. It also extends to the past, where many peers have noted that the mostly 'hands-off' attitude towards regulation of the BT firms has not spurred more competition (Popiel 2023), and raised questions over whether it has actually damaged innovation on the whole (e.g., Bloom et al 2019;Thatchenkery and Katila 2023) 12 . Peers have also suggested that CP should be extended to consider 'new' and 'wider' effects on consumers outside of 'more immediate' harms like higher prices or less variety, so as to take into account harms in the form of invasions of privacy, exposure to psychologically hurtful content, and damages to political and other institutions that consumers rely upon for services and verified information, security, and safety (Furman 2019).…”

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Big Tech, Competition Policy, and Strategic Management: An Alternative Perspective to Teece

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Teece asserts that competition policy is so outdated that it now significantly degrades the ability of Big Tech firms to bring socially beneficial innovations to market. He suggests that strategic management research is essential in the struggle to update such policies. We counter that none of these assertions are accurate, let alone backed by evidence. While the larger goal of improving laws and policies through scientific research is a worthy one, the specific focus on doing so to aid a set of powerful firms that have allegedly caused—directly or indirectly—great societal damage is quite unappealing. To balance his pro-Big Tech perspective, we provide logical and theory-based arguments and evidence that indicates Big Tech has often been bad for innovation and society while their regulation has been good, and that more oversight—specifically tailored to digital platforms—would be better. We then offer three alternative paths for us, as management scholars, to take that leverage our distinctive skills and that fulfill our ethical and professional mandates, in the pursuit of improving the strategic decisions and actions that policymakers and firms take.

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“…Digital platforms break traditional governance frameworks through digital technology innovation, bringing great uncertainty to established governance systems 1 , leading to governance issues such as algorithmic discrimination, monopolies, and improper competition 2 . The governance of digital platforms is receiving high attention from Chinese academia.…”

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A Review of Research on Digital Platform Governance in China: Hotspots, Characteristics, and Frontiers

Luo,

Tang,

Cai

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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Digital platforms have brought new challenges to traditional governance systems. Since 2020, there has been a sharp increase in research achievements in the field of digital platform governance in China, and it is necessary to systematically review these studies. This article used CSSCI as the data source and utilizes the CiteSpace software, a bibliometric visualization tool, to quantitatively analyze 346 literature from 2011 to 2022, systematically sorting out the overall trends, research hotspots, and research frontiers in the field of digital platform governance. This article finds that research on digital platform governance in China can be divided into three stages: the embryonic stage, the exploratory stage, and the explosive stage, and presents the following characteristics: focusing on the two core elements of data and algorithms; Focusing on monopoly issues; Mainly focused on ultra large digital platforms; Staged development with practical development as the background; The key concepts are diverse and not yet unified. The research on digital platform governance in China has different frontiers in terms of governance subjects, governance objects, and governance systems.

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Sources of the European Union's regulatory influence on digital platform firms: Lessons from three Google antitrust cases

Yoshizawa

2024

Contemporary European Politics

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Various studies have highlighted the considerable regulatory influence of the European Union (EU) on digital platform (DP) firms. However, the role of stakeholders in individual competition cases remains underexplored. To fill this gap, this article draws on the conceptual framework of Market Power Europe and contends that the main sources of the European Commission's influence in this field are not only the EU's market size and regulatory capacity but also relevant market information provided by stakeholders such as consumer groups, business associations, and the target firm's competitors. Market information helps the Commission alleviate the problem of information asymmetry and effectively regulate complex and fast‐moving areas such as DP markets. A close analysis of three Google antitrust cases concluded between 2017 and 2019 provides initial empirical evidence supporting this conclusion. Overall, this study contributes to the literature on EU competition policy and greater understanding of the global political economy in relation to DP firms.

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Emerging platform governance: antitrust reform and non-competitive harms in digital platform markets

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Big Tech, Competition Policy, and Strategic Management: An Alternative Perspective to Teece

Big Tech, Competition Policy, and Strategic Management: An Alternative Perspective to Teece

A Review of Research on Digital Platform Governance in China: Hotspots, Characteristics, and Frontiers

Sources of the European Union's regulatory influence on digital platform firms: Lessons from three Google antitrust cases

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