Internet Companies: Market Concentration, Competition and Power

Dolata, Ulrich

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78414-4_5

Cited by 16 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 32 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…As indicated, they deliver these services through platforms, understood as “multi-sided digital frameworks” (Kenney and Zysman, 2016; also see Gillespie, 2010) that enable and regulate interactions between multiple user groups. Boosted by network effects and first-mover advantages, the purportedly decentralized web has inexorably given rise to a small number of centralized corporate nodes (Dolata, 2018; Haucap and Heimeshoff, 2014). This centralization provides Big Tech platforms with a competitive advantage in the form of continuous access to data (Santesteban and Longpre, 2020).…”

Section: The Digital Economy’s Infrastructural Corementioning

confidence: 99%

“…And how widespread are they? Building on—and updating—studies on the financialization of tech companies (e.g., Dolata, 2018; Froud et al, 2014; Jia, 2018; Jia and Winseck, 2018; Lazonick et al, 2013; Staab, 2019), we contribute to the debate by providing an overview of the financial dynamics of the world’s leading Big Techs: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft (all US-based); and Alibaba and Tencent (based in China).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Augmenting digital monopolies: A corporate financialization perspective on the rise of Big Tech

Klinge

Hendrikse

Fernández

et al. 2022

Competition & Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Building on the notion of corporate financialization, this article analyzes the financial dynamics of the world’s largest digital platforms over the period 2000–2020: Alibaba, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, and Tencent. These “Big Tech” corporations jointly form the infrastructural core of the digital economy. Taking cues from critical media studies and political economy, we probe their financial statements according to three stylized indicators of corporate financialization: (i) expanding financial assets and debt; (ii) augmenting asset structures, with intangible assets in the form of goodwill ballooning alongside tangible capital; and (iii) maximizing shareholder value. Our findings point to commonalities among the ‘avantgarde of digital capitalism’, where feedback loops between mounting market dominance, data extraction, and above-average profits have been successfully leveraged with key tools of corporate financialization to accelerate Big Tech’s infrastructural dominance across economy and society.

show abstract

Section: The Digital Economy’s Infrastructural Corementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Augmenting digital monopolies: A corporate financialization perspective on the rise of Big Tech

Klinge

Hendrikse

Fernández

et al. 2022

Competition & Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Beyond this lowest common denominator, the field becomes quite heterogeneous. Indeed, the various Internet platforms differ significantly from one another not only in terms of classic economic indicators, such as their turnover, profit, market capitalization, or employment, but also in terms of their economic or social reach and significance (Dolata 2018a;Dolata 2019;Van Dijck et al 2018, 12-22).…”

Section: Economic Features and Reachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft have since become major competitors of storage space, computer capacity, and cloud services. Finally, the Internet companies regularly compete for supremacy in new technical trends such as virtual reality, machine learning, or image and speech recognition among themselves (Dolata 2018a;Dolata 2019).…”

Section: Concentration Market Power and Patterns Of Competitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future of Work

Gabriel¹,

Kubat²,

Adili³

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

phrase referring to backlash against the expanding influence of market forces in society-preceded the Covid-19 crisis. 2 And academic workers felt the pinch. Educators forced to teach online soon discovered the practical and pedagogical challenges of interacting with students on screens, often from each other's houses. Qualitative researchers had to rethink their fieldwork strategies in a context of mandatory social distancing and weigh the pros and cons of conducting Skype interviews. International conferences were cancelled, postponed, or moved online. These challenges added to the market-related stresses already facing the new (and not so new) generations of scholars, which have seen job opportunities and the terms of employment deteriorate in recent years (ASSH 2018). In the United States, budget cuts at universities following the lockdown led many graduating and soon-to-graduate researchers to consider employment outside of academia, and several top sociology departments froze admissions into their graduate programs. May the current crisis inspire a rethink of traditional structures and foster a more equitable organization of the field.

show abstract

“…(Noam, 2003). Estudios más recientes (Zukerfeld, 2010;Baladron, 2018a;Dolata, 2018;ISOC, 2019) desmitifican el imaginario en torno a internet y los ecosistemas digitales como espacios horizontales, sin control y con multiplicidad de actores, y destacan una situación de alta concentración en los distintos niveles.…”

Section: Consideraciones Generales Sobre Internet: De La Democratizac...unclassified

La Televisión Pública estatal de Argentina y Chile y su expansión a internet

Rivero¹

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

<p>Esta investigación plantea un análisis de casos comparativo entre las condiciones de producción y las estrategias de distribución de contenidos en internet implementadas por la TV Pública de Argentina y Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) en el período 2009-2019. El estudio se realiza a la luz de los condicionantes internos y más ampliamente en relación a las transformaciones y características actuales del mercado global audiovisual en internet.</p><p>Se parte del supuesto de que el ingreso de la televisión tradicional a entornos digitales, en particular internet, no ocurre sobre un territorio en blanco. Por el contrario, ocurre sobre la base de sus antecedentes, y en particular, en relación a un contexto. Por esto las posibilidades de desarrollo de actividades en la Red están condicionadas por aspectos que hemos distinguido a los fines analíticos como “internos”, referidos a las características de funcionamiento de las instituciones televisivas; “externos domésticos”, referidos en términos generales a las políticas de comunicación y para los medios públicos y a las características del mercado de la televisión abierta en cada país; y “externo global”, que abordamos como una variable que rebasa las capacidades de incidencia de los Estados y sus televisoras pero resulta un componente esencial en la medida que explica las principales transformaciones y lógicas de funcionamiento de la distribución de contenidos audiovisuales en internet en la actualidad.</p>

show abstract

Internet Companies: Market Concentration, Competition and Power

Cited by 16 publications

References 32 publications

Augmenting digital monopolies: A corporate financialization perspective on the rise of Big Tech

Augmenting digital monopolies: A corporate financialization perspective on the rise of Big Tech

The Future of Work

La Televisión Pública estatal de Argentina y Chile y su expansión a internet

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About