Special Issue Editorial: Strategies for Surviving and Thriving Within and Between Digital Platforms

摘要

We are delighted to introduce our Special Issue on “Strategies for surviving and thriving within and between digital platforms.” This Special Issue includes a set of papers and a framing article split over two editions of the journal (the December and March issues). Below, we briefly describe the process followed for the special issue and summarize the included papers. A more substantive article that frames the issue of platform competition will appear in the March 2022 issue. organizations. The underlying issues are well known, for example, revenue has dropped in many industries, markets are closed or limited, service providers are constrained in their ability to engage at scale, and some key employees are less available. Still, like any crisis, the pandemic has also fast-forwarded changes that will likely have long-term benefits. The implications of these changes are discussed next.