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Marshall Van Alstyne

Marshall Van Alstyne

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
39
Citations
20293
World Ranking
5457
National Ranking
2572

Overview

Marshall Van Alstyne is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The research topics explored by Van Alstyne include:

  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • ICT Impact and Policies
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Freedom of Expression and Defamation
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Open Source Software Innovations

Van Alstyne has published multiple papers in notable venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Academy of Management Proceedings, Communications of the ACM, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, and Management Science. Their recent publications include:

  • "Digital Platforms and Antitrust" (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Platform Mergers and Antitrust" (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm" (2023), Management Science
  • "How Users Drive Value in Two-Sided Markets: Platform Designs That Matter" (2024), MIS Quarterly
  • "Towards Efficient Information Sharing in Network Markets" (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors of Van Alstyne include:

  • Georgios Petropoulos
  • Geoffrey Parker
  • Bertin Martens
  • Annabelle Gawer

Van Alstyne's publication record shows significant contributions to the analysis of digital platforms, mergers, and network market dynamics, with a total of 27 publications under the Business, Management and Accounting umbrella.

Best Publications

  • Computational Social Science

    David M. Lazer;Alex Pentland;Lada Adamic;Sinan Aral;Sinan Aral

  • Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--and How to Make Them Work for You

    Sangeet Paul Choudary;Marshall W. Van Alstyne;Geoffrey G. Parker

  • Two-Sided Network Effects: A Theory of Information Product Design

    Geoffrey G. Parker;Marshall W. Van Alstyne

  • Opening Platforms: How, When and Why?

    Thomas R. Eisenmann;Geoffrey Parker;Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Platform ecosystems: how developers invert the firm

    Geoffrey Parker;Marshall Van Alstyne;Xiaoyue Jiang

  • Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control

    Geoffrey Parker;Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Strategies for Two Sided Markets

    Thomas R. Eisenmann;Geoffrey Parker;Marshall W. Van Alstyne;Marshall W. Van Alstyne

  • The Diversity-Bandwidth Trade-off1

    Sinan Aral;Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Platform Envelopment

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  • The dark side of the sharing economy … and how to lighten it

    Arvind Malhotra;Marshall Van Alstyne

  • THE STATE OF NETWORK ORGANIZATION: A SURVEY IN THREE FRAMEWORKS

    Marshall W. van Alstyne

  • Global Village or Cyber-Balkans? Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities

    Marshall Van Alstyne;Erik Brynjolfsson

  • The Matrix of Change

    Erik Brynjolfsson;Amy Renshaw;Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Information, Technology, and Information Worker Productivity

    Sinan Aral;Erik Brynjolfsson;Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence

    Sinan Aral;Erik Brynjolfsson;Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Information complements, substitutes, and strategic product design

    Geoffrey Parker;Marshall W. Van Alstyne

  • Why Bitcoin has value

    Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Money models for MOOCs

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas;Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Global Village or CyberBalkans: Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities

    Marshall W. Van Alstyne;Marshall W. Van Alstyne;Erik Brynjolfsson;Erik Brynjolfsson

  • Why not one big database?: principles for data ownership

    Marshall W. Van Alstyne;Erik. Brynjolfsson;Stuart E. Madnick

  • The Diversity-Bandwidth Tradeoff

    Sinan Aral;Marshall W. Van Alstyne;Marshall W. Van Alstyne

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson Stanford University
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Chrysanthos Dellarocas Boston University
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
James H. Fowler
James H. Fowler University of California, San Diego
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University
Michael W. Macy
Michael W. Macy Cornell University
Nicholas A. Christakis
Nicholas A. Christakis Yale University

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