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Path channeling adds to understanding competitive strategy, including platform envelopment.
“The notion of path channeling adds to our understanding of competitive strategy, including recent insights related to platform envelopment (Eisenmann et al. 2011).”
From Recombination in the open-ended value landscape of digital innovation (2018) · cites this paper as Eisenmann et al. 2011
Platform envelopment is described as a firm leveraging shared relationships from overlapping user bases to envelop an existing provider's service by replicating functionality in a multiplatform bundle.
“Platform envelopment is described in the literature as a firm leveraging the shared relationships created by overlapping user bases to envelop the service offered by an existing provider by, for example, replicating the functionality of their existing platform as part of a multiplatform bundle.”
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- Authors
- Eisenmann, T. R., Parker, G., & Van Alstyne, M. W.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Tulane University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Eisenmann, Thomas R.
- ORCID
- Parker, Geoffrey
- Venue
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1270-1285
- ISSN
- 0143-2095 (ISSN-L)
- 1556-5068
- OpenAlex
- W4252733663
- Semantic Scholar
- 5b5c4cdd9fb0692f7513dda6f1a2b121364dd7a7
- Cited by
- 829
- References
- 65
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- FWCI
- 40.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Strategic Management Journal (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Platforms and Economics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Business Strategy and Innovation
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Merger and Competition Analysis
- Keywords
- platform envelopment, platform markets, network effects, switching costs, user relationships, Schumpeterian innovation, market share capture
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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