Platforms to business relations in online platform ecosystems

Nestor Duch-Brown ()
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Nestor Duch-Brown: European Commission JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
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No 2017-07, JRC Working Papers on Digital Economy from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: This report presents evidence on the relationship between online platforms and businesses using these platforms to reach consumers or conduct their operations. First, we review the literature on vertical relationships both from a classic approach and from a multi-sided market perspective. Second, we use survey data to explain the factors behind firms choice of online channel. Third, we explore the results of a survey passed to firms using platforms to understand their concerns about the behaviour of some of these online gatekeepers. Finally, we offer some conclusions.

Keywords: digital single market; data economy; online platforms; multi-sided markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 K11 K12 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2017-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ict, nep-law, nep-mkt, nep-pay and nep-sbm
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