Understanding platform transformation from internal to external: A resource orchestration perspective

Xiaoying Chen and Miao Cui

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, vol. 182, issue C

Abstract: The phenomenon of transformation from an internal platform to an external platform has attracted increasing research attention. However, the transformation process is still unclear. This study aims to uncover how internal platforms transform into external platforms. By adopting a case study method and taking resource orchestration as a theoretical lens, our findings generate a three-stage process model, which specifies the relationships among strategic sense-making of platform owners, resource orchestration, and capability in the path breaking, path creation, and path dependence stages. This study contributes to understanding the transformation process from an internal platform to an external one and thus bridges the literature on internal platforms and external platforms.

Keywords: Platform transformation; Internal platform; External platform; Strategic sense-making; Resource orchestration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162522003924
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:182:y:2022:i:c:s0040162522003924

DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121868

Access Statistics for this article

Technological Forecasting and Social Change is currently edited by Fred Phillips

More articles in Technological Forecasting and Social Change from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().