Review on the Evolution of Platform Research from the Perspectives of Management and Economics

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.210712.012How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Platform economics, Platform structure, two (multi)-sided markets

Abstract

The rising of platform economy provokes intense interests of scholars to do exhaustive research on it, which lasts 30 years and be viewed as the frontier of industrial economics and management. Although the research of platform originated from two areas and each of them developed on different practices and theories, the two research approaches demonstrated intercrossing with the development of research gradually. In this paper, it lists the paths of evolution on platform research and the fruits of both by documentary analysis. The intersects and integration between management and economics have been found, after comparing each of their approaches to research and results, on which based the future research on platform economics has been pointed out in the end. No matter in management or economics perspectives, this paper could provide a useful basis that may invoke inspiration for further study on the platform.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xin Jiang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/12
TI  - Review on the Evolution of Platform Research from the Perspectives of Management and Economics
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Economic Development and Business Culture (ICEDBC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 63
EP  - 70
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210712.012
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210712.012
ID  - Jiang2021
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