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This paper examines the role of technology ecosystems in shaping national economies and their impact on economic growth rates. It defines ecosystems as companies organizing multilateral markets across industries and investigates their association with economic growth using econometric analysis. Drawing from literature on multilateral markets and platform economics, the study finds a positive correlation between ecosystem presence and economic growth rates, highlighting their role in fostering innovation and increasing labor efficiency. However, challenges remain in measuring the full extent of ecosystem exports' cross-national effects. The findings emphasize the importance of ecosystem regulation and its potential to drive economic growth and national welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Internationalization is seen as a commercial opportunity and, in some circumstances, necessary for many firms' resilience in today's volatile and unpredictable global marketplace. Most exporting organizations must cope with various emergent e-commerce digital platforms, given the rising importance of digital and technological transformation of modern international trade and its related strategic challenges. The spread of third-party multi-sided platforms (TPMPs) and established actors such as Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba, has led research to overlook evaluations involving other types of multi-sided e-commerce platforms, such as content management systems (CMSs). Nevertheless, these other platforms are evolving by leaps and bounds and changing the rules of the game for e-commerce website development. This study draws on the transaction cost economics perspective and theory of boundary choices to shed light on the differences in manufacturing firms' internationalization performances from the reliance among CMSs and TPMPs. The study retrieves data from a survey of 263 manufacturing firms' managers and executives relying on structured equation modeling. The findings outline that adopting CMSs partially mediates the relationship between e-commerce strategic commitment and internationalization performances. In contrast, TPMPs negatively moderate the relationship between e-commerce commitment and CMS and between e-commerce commitment and internationalization despite directly partially enhancing internationalization performances. Finally, the study reveals an inverted U-shaped relationship between e-commerce commitment and TPMP reliance. • Manufacturers' e-commerce commitment positively relates to internationalization. • CMSs positively mediates the e-commerce commitment-internationalization relationship. • TPMPs negatively moderates the e-commerce commitment-internationalization relationship. • TPMP negatively moderates the e-commerce commitment-CMSs adoption relationship. • There exist an inverted U-shaped relationship between e-commerce commitment and TPMPs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mobile network operators have long played an essential role in the Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment ecosystem. In most implementations, the SIM card has been the main technical component to secure payments. Currently, mobile payment providers are increasingly planning to place the Secure Element (SE) for authentication in the handset or cloud, rather than on the SIM card. This paper unveils factors that influence stakeholder preferences for the SE location. To structure the analysis, we use a multi-level framework based on concepts borrowed from multi-sided platform theory. Using interviews with stakeholders, we elicit themes and preferences for each level of the framework (provider, technology, and user). Our findings explain why mobile network operators, despite their superior technology, will likely lose the battle for control in the mobile payment ecosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planners increasingly propose mobility hubs linking trunk and feeder transport services to achieve service efficiency, liveability, and accessibility gains in peripheral areas. However, trunk-feeder complementarity at these hubs remains uncertain. This paper aims to enhance understanding of the stakeholder interactions at peripheral mobility hubs through the concept of multi-sided platforms. For the Netherlands, we conducted a Fuzzy Delphi study (n = 59) with representatives of public transport companies (trunk), shared mobility providers (feeder), and asset owners (platform) for the reciprocal evaluation of potential strategies to increase ridership. The data show that trunk and feeder service providers are complementary at the hub to a limited extent. However, platform providers can encourage public transport and shared mobility services to develop their services by improving bike access and providing EV-charging infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online platforms have the characteristics of a particular type of market known as ‘multi-sided’. These businesses create value by bringing advertisers and users together. Access to user data is critical to this process. On the basis of economic literature, the features of multi-sided platforms will be discussed. It will be argued that the characteristics of multi-sided platforms increase the likelihood that successful companies become dominant due to the existence of indirect network effects. In these circumstances, dominant platforms may foreclose competition by raising barriers to entry in the large collections of user data. This may give rise to access problems for competitors and new entrants that need access to data gathered by dominant platforms in order to provide competing or complementary services. A comparative legal analysis will be used to assess the standards that are applicable in the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) for finding liability for refusals to deal under antitrust or competition law. The private antitrust cases that have already occurred regarding access to user data in the US show that the scope of applicability of the US essential facilities doctrine is very limited after the judgment of the Supreme Court in Trinko . Although the European Commission and the European Court of Justice seem to be willing to accept liability for a refusal to deal more easily than their US counterparts, high legal hurdles still have to be met under the essential facilities doctrine in the EU. Nevertheless, there are scenarios in which liability for refusals to give access to data will likely be accepted in the EU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]