Types of Digital Industrial Platforms: Case Study of a Gas Company

Wadim Strielkowski, Victoria Akberdina (), Olga Smirnova (), Alena Ponomareva () and Anna Barybina ()
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Victoria Akberdina: Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Olga Smirnova: Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alena Ponomareva: Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Anna Barybina: Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

A chapter in Digital Transformation in Industry, 2023, pp 125-140 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Following the digital transformation of economic industries, the issue of digital industrial platforms that constitute new market structures and provide value accumulation for participants in industrial ecosystems is becoming relevant. A digital industrial platform represents a hybrid ecosystem that provides efficient networking through the use of end-to-end digital technologies aimed at increasing the competitiveness and innovation/technological development of participants in industrial ecosystems. The aim of this research is to provide a typology of digital industrial platforms according to the criteria of functionality and manageability. The theoretical framework of the study is represented by the market-based, institutional and networking approaches. The period of existence of digital industrial platforms is just over 10 years, thence the data for assessing their functionality and economic efficiency are just in the process of conceptualization. Therefore, to date, the basic method of studying digital platforms in industries is an extended case study. One of the world’s largest gas industry companies, Gazprom, was selected as a case study for validating the typology of digital industry platforms. The research focused on the functionality, architecture and management type of Gazprom’s four digital platforms: the counterparty interaction digital platform, continuous production management digital platform, supply chain management digital platform and technology vision digital platform. As a result, the authors confirmed the typology of digital industrial platforms by the criterion of functionality: type I platform (a digital ecosystem of the interaction of industrial ecosystem participants), and type II platform (a set of end-to-end production technologies forming the business model of the industrial enterprise). The typology was supplemented by a new criterion—the ‘manageability’ of the platform, which made it possible to introduce additional types of digital industrial platforms: centralised, decentralised and mixed. The results stemming from this research are intended to provide a better understanding of the phenomenon of digital industrial platforms and can be used in the development of strategies for the digital transformation of industrial markets.

Keywords: Digital platform; Digital industrial platforms; Gas industry; Ecosystem; Gazprom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30351-7_11

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