Abstract

The emergence of digital technologies has significantly reduced the economic costs of data—search, storage, computation, transmission—and enabled new economic activities. Over the years, firms able to create a platform-based ecosystem have become a force of “creative construction.” Economic activities (C2C, B2C, B2B) have been reorganized around platform-based ecosystems for value creation and value appropriation, which are orchestrated by multisided platforms via the “digital hand.” To further understanding of the Digital Platform Economy, this paper provides a conceptual framework consisting of three interrelated concepts: digital technology infrastructure, multisided digital platforms, and platform-based ecosystems (users and entrepreneurs). Using a unique database over five decades, we revisit the hypothesis that new firms were needed to introduce digital technologies.

中文翻译：

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全球数字平台经济的演变：1971-2021

摘要

数字技术的出现显着降低了数据的经济成本——搜索、存储、计算、传输——并促成了新的经济活动。多年来，能够创建基于平台的生态系统的公司已成为“创造性建设”的力量。经济活动（C2C、B2C、B2B）已围绕基于平台的生态系统进行重组，以实现价值创造和价值分配，由多边平台通过“数字手”精心策划。为了进一步理解数字平台经济，本文提供了一个由三个相互关联的概念组成的概念框架：数字技术基础设施、多边数字平台和基于平台的生态系统（用户和企业家）。使用独特的数据库超过五年，