The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Data Network Effects for Creating User Value
研究了平台经济中除直接和间接网络效应外的第三种类型：数据网络效应，即平台从用户数据中学习越多，对用户的价值越大，并分析了AI能力与用户价值的关系及调节因素。
Some of the world’s most profitable firms own platforms that exhibit network effects. A platform exhibits network effects if the more people that use it, the more valuable that it becomes to each user. Theorizing about the value perceived by users of a platform that exhibits network effects has traditionally focused on direct and indirect network effects. In this paper, we theorize about a third type of network effects—data network effects—that has emerged from advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and the growing availability of data. A platform exhibits data network effects if the more that the platform learns from the data it collects on users, the more valuable the platform becomes to each user. We argue that there is a positive direct relationship between the AI capability of a platform and the value perceived in the platform by its users—a relationship that is moderated by platform legitimation, data stewardship and user-centric design. \n \n