Talking about Platforms
Episodes
Value Creation in Digital Platforms with Sabine Baumann
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Digital Optimism with Payal Aurora
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nested Platforms with Elizabeth Altman and Mary Tripsas
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Incumbents, Platforms, and Beliefs with Alessio Cozzolino
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Boundary Resources and Supply Sides with Kimmo Karhu
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
B2B platforms and industrial organizations with Virginia Springer and Krithika Randhawa
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Platform Governance for Established Companies with Maximilian Schreieck
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI Restacking the Knowledge Economy with Sangeet Paul Choudary
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Digital Phoenix Effect with Daniel Trabucchi and Tommaso Buganza
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Platform Revolution with Geoffrey G. Parker
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Platform Classics: Towards a theory of ecosystems
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Industrial and B2B Platforms with Marin Jovanovic
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Platform Classics: Organizing for innovation in the digitized world
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Social Media and Behavioural Impacts with Pinar Yildirim
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Platform Classics: Platform Envelopment
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Crypto Economics and Open Source Platforms with Mariia Petryk
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Platform Classics: A Price Theory of Multi-Sided Platforms
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Data, Organizations, and Platforms with Cristina Alaimo
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Platform Classics: Value Creation in Innovation Ecosystems
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Algorithmic Management with Lindsey Cameron
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Platform Classics: Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This paper brings together the recent literature on industry platforms and shows how it relates to managing innovation within and outside the firm as ...
Platform and Innovation System Design with Kevin Boudreau
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kevin Boudreau discusses his research on platforms, from his early perspectives to his current view of platforms as governed digital ...
Platform Classics: Chicken & Egg
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This influential paper by Caillaud and Jullien from 2003 examines imperfect price competition between intermediation service providers, with a particu...
Platforms' Growth and Data Sharing with Chiara Farronato
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode features Chiara Farronato, a Harvard Business School professor, discussing her research on digital platforms. Farronato defines p...
Platform Classics: Two-Sided Network Effects
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parker and Van Alstyne's seminal paper explores two-sided network effects in information markets, demonstrating how firms can strategically offer prod...
Externalities and Platform Markets with Paavo Ritala
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The discussion begins with positive network externalities, which are broken down into three key factors: accumulation, variety, and utility. Accumulat...
Platform Classics: Design Rules, Volume One
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Baldwin and Clark's "Design Rules, Volume 1" explores how modular design transforms technological innovation. The book reveals how breaking complex sy...
Platforms and Ecosystems with Wim Vanhaverbeke
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode features Wim Vanhaverbeke, a digital strategy and open innovation expert, discussing digital platforms and their impact on open i...
Platform Classics: Foundational works on the Economics of Networks
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we analyze the complex dynamics of markets shaped by network effects. We'll investigate how compatibility decisions and sponsorship influen...
Platform Strategy and Business Models with Andrei Hagiu
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation with Andrei Hagiu explores the power dynamics between platforms and participants, highlighting platform traps where dominant platfor...
Interaction Fields with Erich Joachimsthaler
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Interaction Field, management expert and professor Erich Joachimsthaler explains that the only way to thrive in this environment is through the...
Platform Cooperatives with Trebor Scholz
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Platform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their platform. On this internet, platforms suc...
Business Ecosystems in Asia with Mark Greeven
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Ecosystems represent potentially the best organizational model for the future of organizations." Mark Greeven
Composable process platforms with Michael Perscheid
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise information systems (EIS) have been important enablers of business cross-functional processes since the 1990s. Often referred to as enterpr...
Cities as platforms with Gesa Ziemer
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The CityScienceLab at the HafenCity University Hamburg investigates the urban challenges in the era of digitalization in cooperation with partners fro...
Platform power with Robyn Caplan
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the intersection of platform governance and media policy and examine the impact of inter-and-intra-organizational behavior on platform gove...
Connected digital society with Helena Rong
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about the so-called “Web3” movement that emerges as a reaction against the growing concentration of power to information in the hands of a...
Platforms, blockchain, and the law with Primavera De Filippi
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation about the legal challenges and opportunities of blockchain technology and platform ecosystems, with a specific focus on governance and ...
Digital public infrastructures with David Eaves
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Building identity, payments, and data exchange as infrastructure to scale solutions in agriculture, health, poverty, climate, and other pressing chall...
Platform competition with Shiva Shekhar
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In most platform environments, the exclusive provision of premium content from leading creators (superstars) is used as a strategy to boost user parti...
Platform identity with Panos Constantinides
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Platform governance design with Liang Chen
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The burgeoning digital platforms literature across multiple business disciplines has primarily characterized the platform as a market or network. Alth...
Dimensions of data labor with Hanlin Li
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many recent technological advances (e.g. ChatGPT and search engines) are possible only because of massive amounts of user-generated data produced thro...
Platform ecosystems as meta‐organizations with Tobias Kretschmer
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Research summary Platform ecosystems have spurred new products and services, sparked innovation, and improved economic efficiency in various industrie...
The ERP platform play with Oliver Bossert
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise resource planning upgrades can be expensive and complex—and unavoidable. A product and platform approach can manage costs and improve out...
Introducing season III
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel, Tommaso, and Philip talk about the upcoming season, important changes to the team (welcome, Tommaso!), and Platform Thinking.
Investing in network effects with Sameer Singh
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We end season two of the Talking about Platforms Podcast by bringing on a true expert on applied network effects. Sameer Singh looks back on a long an...
Platform business design with Ted Ladd
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we need platform business design? Today's rise of digital platforms is reshaping our economy leaving traditional business models far behind. Go...
Platform ecosystem emergence with Llewellyn D. W. Thomas
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract of the paper we discuss We investigate patterns in platform ecosystem emergence. We find that the processes of ecosystem emergence—value d...
A common framework for digital platform ecosystems with Andreas Hein
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract Digital platforms are an omnipresent phenomenon that challenges incumbents by changing how we consume and provide digital products and servic...
Decentralized versus distributed platforms with Jean-Philippe Vergne
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract The terms decentralized organization and distributed organization are often used interchangeably, despite describing two distinct phenomena. ...
Workforce ecosystems with Elizabeth J. Altman
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, the research team around Liz, Sloan, and Deloitte focused on opportunity marketplaces: internal platforms that help organizations develop, en...
Platform participation strategies and collective governance with Rebecca Karp
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss during the episode: When platform leaders change the rules guiding who can access and control a platform, the stra...
Will blockchains disintermediate platforms? with Hanna Halaburda
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode: A major result in the study of two-sided platforms is the strategic interdepen...
From early platforms to cloud empires with Vili Lehdonvirta
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the book we discuss with the author during the episode: The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of ent...
Platform professionals and Web3 with Peter C. Evans
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Closing episode for the first season of the TaP podcast. We cover a broad range of topics, starting at the gap between academic research and the diffu...
Trust and platform avoidance with Grace Gu
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode: As a platform improves trust between the two sides of its market to facilitate...
Digital colonization and platform regulation with Pinar Ozcan
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode: Digital platforms have disrupted many sectors but have not yet visibly transfo...
Blockchain-enabled platforms with Tommaso Buganza and Antonella Moretto
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode: The importance of platform‐based businesses in the modern economy is growing...
The impact and the future of platforms with Martin F. Kenney and John Zysman
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode: Online platforms are pervasive and powerful in today's economy. We explore the...
Algorithmic management and platforms with Mareike Möhlmann
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode: Online labor platforms (OLPs) can use algorithms along two dimensions: matchin...
Platform boundaries with Annabelle Gawer
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode This article explores what factors drive digital platform firms to set or modif...
Platforms as market orchestrators with Joost Rietveld
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode We study how a multisided platform’s decision to certify a subset of its comp...
Piracy in the age of platforms with Milan Miric
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode Research Summary With the growth of digital platforms, understanding the role o...
Teaser
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode, Daniel and Philip describe in one minute what Talking about Platforms is all about, what you can look forward to and why you sho...