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Platforms, markets, and innovation / edited by Annabelle Gawer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2009.Description: xvi, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781848447899
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1. Platforms, Markets and Innovation: An Introduction, Annabelle Gawer PART I: PLATFORMS: OVERVIEW 2. The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View, Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard 3. Platform Dynamics and Strategies: From Products to Services, Annabelle Gawer 4. The Role of Services in Platform Markets, Fernando F. Suarez and Michael A. Cusumano 5. How Catalysts Ignite: The Economics of Platform-Based Start-Ups, David S. Evans PART II: PLATFORMS: OPEN, CLOSED, AND GOVERNANCE ISSUES 6. Opening Platforms: How, When and Why? Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne 7. Platforms Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators, Kevin Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu 8. Protecting or Diffusing a Technology Platform: Tradeoffs in Appropriability, Network Externalities, and Architectural Control, Melissa A. Schilling 9. Open Platform Development and the Commercial Internet, Shane Greenstein PART III: PLATFORMS: MANAGEMENT, DESIGN, AND KNOWLEDGE ISSUES 10. Outsourcing of Tasks and Outsourcing of Assets: Evidence from Automotive Supplier Parks in Brazil, Mari Sako 11. Platforms for the Design of Platforms: Collaborating in the Unknown, Armand Hatchuel, Pascal Le Masson and Benoit Weil 12. Design Rules for Platform Leaders, Stefano Brusoni and Andrea Prencipe 13. Detecting Errors Early: Management of Problem-Solving in Product Platform Projects, Ramsin Yakob and Fredrik Tell 14. The Effect of Technological Platforms on the International Division of Labor: A Case Study of Intel's Platform Business in the PC Industry, Hirofumi Tatsumoto, Koichi Ogawa and Takahiro Fujimoto.
Summary: "Annabelle Gawer presents cutting-edge contributions from 24 top international scholars from 19 universities across Europe, the USA and Asia, from the disciplines of strategy, economics, innovation, organization studies and knowledge management. The novel insights assembled in this volume constitute a fundamental step towards an empirically based, nuanced understanding of the nature of platforms and the implications they hold for the evolution of industrial innovation. The book provides an overview of platforms and discusses governance, management, design and knowledge issues." "With a multidisciplinary approach, this book will strongly appeal to academics and advanced students in management, innovation, strategy, economics and design. It will also prove an enlightening read for business managers in IT industries."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Annabelle Gawer presents cutting-edge contributions from 24 top international scholars from 19 universities across Europe, the USA and Asia, from the disciplines of strategy, economics, innovation, organization studies and knowledge management. The novel insights assembled in this volume constitute a fundamental step towards an empirically based, nuanced understanding of the nature of platforms and the implications they hold for the evolution of industrial innovation. The book provides an overview of platforms and discusses governance, management, design and knowledge issues." "With a multidisciplinary approach, this book will strongly appeal to academics and advanced students in management, innovation, strategy, economics and design. It will also prove an enlightening read for business managers in IT industries."--BOOK JACKET.

1. Platforms, Markets and Innovation: An Introduction, Annabelle Gawer PART I: PLATFORMS: OVERVIEW 2. The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View, Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard 3. Platform Dynamics and Strategies: From Products to Services, Annabelle Gawer 4. The Role of Services in Platform Markets, Fernando F. Suarez and Michael A. Cusumano 5. How Catalysts Ignite: The Economics of Platform-Based Start-Ups, David S. Evans PART II: PLATFORMS: OPEN, CLOSED, AND GOVERNANCE ISSUES 6. Opening Platforms: How, When and Why? Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne 7. Platforms Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators, Kevin Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu 8. Protecting or Diffusing a Technology Platform: Tradeoffs in Appropriability, Network Externalities, and Architectural Control, Melissa A. Schilling 9. Open Platform Development and the Commercial Internet, Shane Greenstein PART III: PLATFORMS: MANAGEMENT, DESIGN, AND KNOWLEDGE ISSUES 10. Outsourcing of Tasks and Outsourcing of Assets: Evidence from Automotive Supplier Parks in Brazil, Mari Sako 11. Platforms for the Design of Platforms: Collaborating in the Unknown, Armand Hatchuel, Pascal Le Masson and Benoit Weil 12. Design Rules for Platform Leaders, Stefano Brusoni and Andrea Prencipe 13. Detecting Errors Early: Management of Problem-Solving in Product Platform Projects, Ramsin Yakob and Fredrik Tell 14. The Effect of Technological Platforms on the International Division of Labor: A Case Study of Intel's Platform Business in the PC Industry, Hirofumi Tatsumoto, Koichi Ogawa and Takahiro Fujimoto.

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