Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions
Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions
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平台经济中的外部化：社会平台和机构。
DOI：
10.1057/s41267-022-00506-w
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发表时间：
2022-03-07
影响因子：
11.6
通讯作者：
Yang, Yang
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作者：
Chen, Liang;Li, Sali;Yang, Yang
日益增长的平台经济重新引发了关于内化理论在当代语境中适用性的争论。在推进这场辩论的过程中，我们借鉴了混合动力研究和产权理论的见解，以补充内部化学派。我们的核心贡献在于将平台重新定义为一种混合组织形式，使平台所有者和互补者之间能够交换产权。本文以社交平台为例，提出东道国知识产权保护水平的提高会提高跨国平台的内部化水平，而平台企业的治理能力可能会削弱制度对其运营模式的影响。我们的理论分析产生了新的见解，超越了公认的国际化观点，建立在内部化的专有资源的假设。我们的结论是，内部化理论，作为一个总体范式在IB，仍然适用于新的组织形式在数字经济。
The growing platform economy has revived the debate on the applicability of internalization theory in contemporary contexts. In moving this debate forward, we draw on insights from hybrids research and property rights theory to complement the internalization school. Our core contribution lies in a reconceptualization of platforms as a hybrid organizational form enabling the exchange of property rights between platform owners and complementors. Using social platforms as an example, we propose that improvement in a host country's intellectual property protection will increase the multinational platform's (MNP) level of internalization, and that the platform firm's governance capabilities may weaken the effect of institutions on its operation mode. Our theoretical analysis yields new insights beyond the received view of internationalization that builds on the assumption of internalized proprietary resources. We conclude that internalization theory, as an overarching paradigm in IB, remains adaptable to new organizational forms in the digital economy.