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Platform Revolution

How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You

Marshall W Van Alstyne author Geoffrey G Parker author Sangeet Paul Choudary author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:10th Oct '17

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Facebook, PayPal, Alibaba, Uber—these companies have upended entire industries by harnessing a single phenomenon: the platform business model. Platform Revolution delivers the first comprehensive analysis of how platforms match producers and consumers in a multi-sided marketplace, unlocking hidden resources and creating new forms of value.

Platform Revolution explores the what, how and why of this revolution and provides the first “owner’s manual” for creating a platform marketplace. It provides the essential guide to unlocking the potential of an economic landscape transformed.

"Thorough and often provocative." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Platform Revolution... is not the first book on the subject. But its clarity and fact-based analysis have made it a business bestseller for 2016." -- The European Magazine
"... a number of options for entering the platform age." -- Summer reading list – 10 books you mustn’t miss! - Business Digest

ISBN: 9780393354355

Dimensions: 211mm x 140mm x 25mm

Weight: 273g

352 pages