Abstract : Past decades have seen business platforms proliferate not only as a means to collaborate, but also decrease time-to-market and promote innovation. However, extant literature tends to dichotomise platforms, perceiving them as either strategic resources or technical systems. Applied to digital platforms, we argue that options theory offers a potential means to reconcile the operand and operant perspectives of platform artefacts. We illustrate our point via a case study of a firm that has gradually developed a product that enables mobile communication into a digital platform that provides a wide range of customers with services from several different suppliers. This study contributes to our understanding of digital platforms as it describes how design choices by a provider can affect flexibility and continued development of new services.
Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn; Peter Axel Nielsen. Transfer and Diffusion of IT (TDIT), Jun 2014, Aalborg, Denmark. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, AICT-429, pp.243-260, 2014, Creating Value for All Through IT. 〈10.1007/978-3-662-43459-8_15〉
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Ted Saarikko. Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Considering Options Theory in Digital Platform Development. Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn; Peter Axel Nielsen. Transfer and Diffusion of IT (TDIT), Jun 2014, Aalborg, Denmark. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, AICT-429, pp.243-260, 2014, Creating Value for All Through IT. 〈10.1007/978-3-662-43459-8_15〉. 〈hal-01381190〉
