From primordial soup to platform-based competition: Exploring the emergence of products, systems, and platforms

We use an agent-based NK model to explore the conditions under which standard platforms emerge among competing products. Our findings were inconclusive. We find that the usual Darwinian conditions needed for the emergence of complexity are sufficient to yield a limited reliance upon platforms with a...

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Main Authors: WOODARD, C. Jason, CLEMONS, Eric K.
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3525
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4526/viewcontent/PrimordialSoup_2011.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English