From Corporates to International Governance: The Coming of the ‘Platform Economy’

... combination of businesses – phone and app store – is worth more than the sum of its parts. In fact this is the rationale behind Apple’s decision to stop reporting hardware sales. They want analysts to start assessing them on the health of their ecosystem ... ... involved platform strategies. At the level of regional integration arrangements some of the examples of such strategies include the EU’s Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy as well as the Digital Agenda of the Eurasian Economic Union . The use of platforms ...