The Capabilities of Digital Platforms as the Maintenance of Conventional Equilibrium: The Cases of Uber and Blablacar

Les capacités des plateformes numériques comme maintien de l’équilibre conventionnel: les cas de Uber et Blablacar

Mathilde Abel

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Abstract: This article analyses the capabilities of digital platforms from an economics of convention perspective. This approach allows us, on one hand, to consider two-sided markets as exchange conventions arranged by platforms through a triangulation process, and on the other hand, to define their capabilities as being cognitive and based on socio-technical devices. Based on two case studies from the passenger transport sector, Uber and Blablacar, we show that the search for a level of equilibrium and a test of this level constitute, jointly, the conditions for the exploitation of two-sided markets, and that the organizational control of these conditions forges the capabilities of digital platforms. We built a taxonomy of capabilities and detail the two organizations capabilities. JEL Codes: L22, D25, L86, L91

Keywords: Plateforme numérique; Marché biface; Effets de réseaux; Economie des conventions; Capacités numériques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09-07
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Published in Innovations - Revue d’économie et de management de l'innovation, 2022, n° 69 (3), pp.15-42. ⟨10.3917/inno.pr2.0132⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/inno.pr2.0132

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