期刊
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
卷 68, 期 11, 页码 8249-8260出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2022.4545
关键词
platform; revenue-sharing; platform regulation; ecosystem design
资金
- Google Apigee
This study explores the impact of revenue-sharing designs on the ecosystem of digital platforms. It shows that a small-business oriented differential revenue sharing design can increase total welfare and outputs on the platform, benefiting smaller producers. However, under certain conditions, larger producers may also benefit. Interestingly, the study finds that platforms are the most likely winners under a differential revenue sharing scheme, as it serves their own interests better.
Many digital platforms have accrued enormous power and scale, leveraging cross-side network effects between the sides they connect (e.g., producers and consumers or creators and viewers). Platforms motivate a diverse spectrum of producers, large and small, to participate by sharing platform revenue with them, predominantly under a linear revenue-sharing scheme with the same commission rate regardless of producer power or size. Under pressure from society, lawsuits, and antitrust investigations, major platforms have announced revenue sharing designs that favor smaller businesses. We develop a model of platform economics and show that a small-business oriented (SBO) differential revenue sharing design can increase total welfare and outputs on the platform. Although smaller producers almost always benefit from the shift in revenue sharing design, spillover effects can also make large producers better off under some conditions. More interestingly, we show that platforms are the most likely winner under a differential revenue sharing scheme. Hence, an intervention that ostensibly offers concessions and generous treatment to producers might well be self-serving for platforms and good for the entire ecosystem.
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