Toward a network dynamic view of the platform
department or school: Business, Sauder School of
department or school: Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, Division of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Ma, Dennis George
issued: 2023-07-21T19:37:17Z
issued: 2023
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Platforms are increasingly the nexuses of economic activity and social organization; making them important sociologically and managerially. The strategic management and organizations literature remains concerned with inter-platform competition, which is viewed as being determined by platforms’ underlying network size—the core tenet of extant platform theory. Emerging research increasingly challenges longstanding assumptions underlying dominant platform views; suggesting that network organization supersedes the determinance of network size. Although we know platform network organization matters, current literature remains absent theory to formalize this critical element of platform dynamics. This dissertation extends network ecology approaches to formalize a framework for analyzing platforms’ network activity dynamics to address the research question: how is platform activity organized? I initialize a network dynamic view of the platform by centering on the organization of platform activity from a topological perspective while embracing heterogeneity in platform environments and network configurations. Specifically, this dissertation focuses on the relationship between platforms’ activity integration and growth. I develop a platform network theory of connectance, centralization, clustering, centralized clustering, and cross-functionality. These five Cs provide an initial representation of network organization under a long-due framework for activity-oriented network dynamic platform analysis. Using latent growth modeling with comprehensive fixed effects on complete and granular Ethereum Metropolis blockchain network data from October 17, 2017 to January 1, 2020 drawn from the 200 highest activity contracts, this dissertation empirically examines the relation of the five network properties on platform activity growth. The results show nuanced support for network organization increasing activity growth. This dissertation lays the groundwork for a network dynamic platfor…
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note: TOWARD A NETWORK DYNAMIC VIEW OF THE PLATFORM by Dennis George Ma A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Business Administration – Organizational Behaviour) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) July 2023 © Dennis George Ma, 2023ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: TOWARD A NETWORK DYNAMIC VIEW OF THE PLATFORM submitted by Dennis George Ma in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration – Organizational Behaviour Examining Committee: Marc-David Seidel, Associate Professor, Business Administration, UBC Supervisor Danielle van Jaarsveld, Associate Professor, Business Administration, UBC Co-supervisor Gene Moo Lee, Associate Professor, Business Administration, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Ning Nan, Associate Professor, Business Administration, UBC University Examiner Chen Feng, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, UBC (Okanagan) University Examiner Kim Bates, Associate Professor, Business Administration, TMU External Examiner Additional Supervisory Committee Members: David Walker, Assistant Professor, Management, UBC (Okanagan) Supervisory Committee Member Chris Rowell, Principal, Performance Frontiers Supervisory Committee Member iii ABSTRACT Platforms are increasingly the nexuses of economic activity and social organization; making them important sociologically and managerially. The strategic management and organizations literature remains concerned with inter-platform competition, which is viewed as being determined by platforms’ underlying network size—the core tenet of extant platform theory. Emerging research increasingly challenges longstanding assumptions underlying dominant platform views; suggesting that network organization supersedes the…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2023-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0434265
language: eng
degree discipline: Business Administration - Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Seidel, Marc-David
contributor: van Jaarsveld, Danielle Dorice
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85294