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BUSINESS HORIZONS
Volume 60, Issue 6, Pages 747-758Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2017.07.002
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Value co-creation; Business model innovation; Multi-sided platforms; Online entrepreneurship
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The internet is fertile ground for multisided platforms that articulate the production of goods or the execution of services between third parties, thus relying on value co-creation as their core business model mechanism. However, an understanding of co-creation that underlies dynamics and implications for business model design and innovation is still dispersed and fragmented along a number of literature streams. This article aims to provide an understanding of the value co-creation process in web-based multisided platforms. A conceptual framework is proposed based on the combination of an analysis of a comprehensive systematic literature review, interviews with academics and entrepreneurs, and an analysis of secondary data on representative cases of multisided business models based on value co-creation. We offer a model of value co-creation in multisided platforms and advance a number of propositions regarding value dynamics, including the role of the focal firm in defining and maintaining value creation, propositions, and capture structures with consequences to monetization schemes and actors' contributions and motivations for value co-creation. This article contributes to the understanding of the co-creation phenomenon, especially in multiple actor interaction regimes, and raises a number of suggestions for future research. (C) 2017 Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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