Externalities and complementarities in platforms and ecosystems: From structural solutions to endogenous failures
研究了平台和生态系统如何通过解决特定市场失灵（如外部性）来创造价值，并分析了它们自身可能产生的内生性功能与分配失败，对经济学和管理学实践有启示。
Platforms and ecosystems provide structures for constellations of economic actors to engage and interact as they seek to create and capture value. We consider how the constructs of platforms and ecosystems relate and explore why they have become more ubiquitous by focusing on the nature of their value-add. We propose that they emerge as a response to distinct market failures, which we identify, and we explain which specific externalities they help overcome. We also identify post-hoc endogenous functional and distributional failures that platforms and ecosystems, in turn, generate. We discuss implications for theory and practice.