Platform Chronicles

How to tell when data-enabled learning can create defensible competitive positions.

Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

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Relative to regular network effects, data network effects are easier to circumvent, costlier to maintain, and tend to run out of steam faster.

Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

Dec 29, 2020

Why ease of adoption and coordination can undermine network effects and what to do about it

Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

Dec 15, 2020

How to tell whether network effects are actually strong and really create defensible moats.

Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

Dec 2, 2020

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