Jul 2026· Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research· Vol 78· 0 citations· 108 references
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Over the past decade, multiple governance failures in market-leading platforms have caused severe criticism from partners, customers, and regulators. This has led to the formation of an alternative concept called platform cooperatives, which are jointly owned and democratically controlled by partners and aim to create a more just and social alternative to dominating market leaders. Using a comparative multi-case study of six matching pairs of platforms across different industries, this study explores how governance differs between platform types and how this impacts platform strategies. The results show that platform governance varies strongly between platform cooperatives and traditional platforms across the four governance dimensions investigated: values, economics, authority, and cooperation. These differences directly limit the strategic option space available for platform cooperatives and decrease the feasibility of success when competing with well-established players. Our findings contribute to the understanding of platform governance and platform cooperatives and can pave the way for future research in this field.
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Meral Dülger Taşkın· Journal of Applied and Theor...· 0 citations
As platform-based market entities that integrate distributed resources within the new power system, electricity aggregators have become a key enabler for achieving high-proportion renewable energy grid integration and flexible demand-side regulation. However, issues such as disputes over revenue distribution and high r...
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The 15th National Games of the People’s Republic of China, jointly hosted by Guangdong Province, Hong Kong, and Macao in November 2025, represents the first instance in which multiple provincial-level administrative regions co-hosted a National Games under the “one country, two systems” framework. This study asks how c...
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The ambiguity surrounding the impact of digital transformation on banking sustainability is an aggregation artifact. Analyzing 250 banks across 25 emerging markets (2015–2024) using fixed effects, we demonstrate that digitalization exerts opposing forces on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) pillars that can...
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This is a field-defining open access playbook for identifying and responding to the global regulatory challenges created by large digital platforms, and pushes scholarly, practitioner, and policymaker communities to address the global nature of this challenge.
Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) has been widely used in international marketing, particularly for foreign market entry and expansion. However, existing applications largely focus on traditional firms engaged in dyadic transactions and overlook the structurally distinct nature of sharing economy platforms such as Uber...
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