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Overview

Annabelle Gawer is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom and primarily works in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research focuses heavily on Digital Platforms and Economics, with additional emphasis on Business Strategy and Innovation as well as related areas including the Sharing Economy and Platforms, ICT Impact and Policies, and Digital Economy and Work Transformation.

The scientist's publication record includes work in Strategy and Management, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, Media Technology, and Management Science and Operations Research. This multidisciplinary approach reflects the evolving nature of platform economies and digital business models.

Annabelle Gawer's research contributions are published in various academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Research Policy
  • Information and Organization
  • Long Range Planning

Recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • Digital platforms' boundaries: The interplay of firm scope, platform sides, and digital interfaces (2020, Long Range Planning)
  • Digital platforms for development: Foundations and research agenda (2021, Information Systems Journal)
  • Multisided Platforms as New Organizational Forms (2020, Academy of Management Perspectives)
  • Externalities and complementarities in platforms and ecosystems: From structural solutions to endogenous failures (2023, Research Policy)
  • Can self-regulation save digital platforms? (2021, Industrial and Corporate Change)

Collaborations form an integral part of the scientist's work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Michael A. Cusumano
  • David B. Yoffie
  • Martín Harracá
  • Michael G. Jacobides
  • Georg Reischauer

The main topics addressed by Annabelle Gawer involve deep investigation into digital platform architectures, boundaries, and governance mechanisms. This also extends to understanding platform ecosystems, structural dynamics, and innovation strategies within digital transformation contexts.

Best Publications

  • Towards a Theory of Ecosystems

    Michael G. Jacobides;Carmelo Cennamo;Annabelle Gawer

  • Industry platforms and ecosystem innovation

    Annabelle Gawer;Michael A. Cusumano

  • Bridging Differing Perspectives on Technological Platforms: Toward an Integrative Framework

    Annabelle Gawer

  • Platform Leadership How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation

    Annabelle Gawer;Michael A. Cusumano

  • The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis

    Marcel Bogers;Ann Kristin Zobel;Allan Afuah;Esteve Almirall

  • Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary Markets: Evidence from Intel

    Annabelle Gawer;Rebecca M. Henderson

  • The elements of platform leadership

    M.A. Cusumano;A. Gawer

  • The Rise of the Platform Enterprise: A Global Survey

    PC Evans;Annabelle Gawer

  • The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

    Michael A. Cusumano;Annabelle Gawer;David B. Yoffie

  • Platforms, Markets and Innovation

    Annabelle Gawer

  • How Companies Become Platform Leaders

    Annabelle Gawer;Michael A. Cusumano

  • Institutional Work as Logics Shift: The Case of Intel’s Transformation to Platform Leader:

    Annabelle Gawer;Nelson Phillips

  • Platform leadership

    Annabelle Gawer Gawer;Michael A. Cusumano

  • Digital platforms’ boundaries: The interplay of firm scope, platform sides, and digital interfaces

    Annabelle Gawer

  • Integrating Research on Inter-Organizational Networks and Ecosystems

    Andrew Shipilov;Annabelle Gawer

  • Digital platforms for development: Foundations and research agenda

    Carla Bonina;Kari Koskinen;Ben Eaton;Annabelle Reina Gawer

  • Bridging Differing Perspectives on Technological Platforms: Toward an Integrative Framework

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  • Platform Dynamics and Strategies: From Products to Services

    Annabelle Gawer

  • Platform Dynamics and Strategies: From Products to Services

    Annabelle Gawer

  • Industry architecture as a determinant of successful platform strategies: a case study of the i-mode mobile Internet service

    Richard Tee;Annabelle Gawer

  • Disruption in Platform-Based Ecosystems

    Hakan Ozalp;Hakan Ozalp;Hakan Ozalp;Carmelo Cennamo;Carmelo Cennamo;Carmelo Cennamo;Annabelle Gawer;Annabelle Gawer;Annabelle Gawer

  • Digital platforms and ecosystems: remarks on the dominant organizational forms of the digital age

    Annabelle Gawer

  • Digital Platforms’s Boundaries: The Interplay of Firm Scope, Platform Sides, and Digital Interfaces

    Annabelle Gawer

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel Bogers
Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology
Keld Laursen
Keld Laursen Copenhagen Business School
John Hagedoorn
John Hagedoorn Royal Holloway University of London
Satish Nambisan
Satish Nambisan Case Western Reserve University
Ann Majchrzak
Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California
Frank T. Piller
Frank T. Piller RWTH Aachen University
Mats Magnusson
Mats Magnusson Royal Institute of Technology
Rebecca Henderson
Rebecca Henderson Harvard University

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