Platforms, Markets and Innovation

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Annabelle Gawer
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2011 - Business & Economics - 416 pages
In her pioneering book Platform Leadership (with Michael Cusumano), Gawer gave us the strategy of building coalitions of customers, suppliers, and complementors. Now, she brings together a number of the leading researchers in the area of platform strategy
 

Contents

an introduction
1
Overview
17
a unified view
19
from products to services
45
4 The role of services in platform markets
77
the economics of platformbased startups
99
Open Closed and Governance Issues
129
how when and why?
131
9 Open platform development and the commercial Internet
219
Management Design and Knowledge Issues
249
evidence from automotive supplier parks in Brazil
251
collaborating in the unknown
273
12 Design rules for platform leaders
306
management of problem solving in product platform projects
322
a case study of Intels platform business in the PC industry
345
Index
371

multisided platforms as regulators
163
tradeoffs in appropriability network externalities and architectural control
192

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Edited by Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey, UK

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