definition of "platform"

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platform definition

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Cusumano2010staying

The term "platform" first came into wide usage in the management field as a word meaning foundation of components around which an organization creates a related but different set of products (or services).

GawerCusumano2002platform

• an industry platform as aproduct that provides a core technology that can be reused in different product variations that are likely to come from different companies. cited in WaltlEtAl2012IPmodurality

RochetTirole2003platform

to characterize products, services, firms or institutions that mediate mediates transactions between two or more groups of agents

BaldwinWoodard2010architecture

• pp.19: we define as a set of stable components that supports variety and evolvability in a system by constraining the linkages among the other components.
• Most platform definitions focus on the reuse or sharing of common elements across complex pruducts or systems of production.
• "platform architecture" as a modularization which pattitions a system into a set of components the design of which is stable and a complementary set of components which are allowed -- indeed encouraged -- to vary. cited in WaltlEtAl2012IPmodurality

GarudKumaraswamy1993changing

By standards, we mean codified specifications about components and their relatonal attributes.

related papers

TushmanMurmann2002dominant

the system is partitioned into a set of 'core' components with low variety and a complementary set of 'peripheral' components with high variety.
from BaldwinWoodard2010architecture (pp.19)

Kokuryo2000defacto

@incollection{Kokuryo2000defacto,

 title={{オープン・ネットワーク型経営の革新 -プラットフォーム戦略とデファクト・スタンダード-}},
 booktitle={{デファクト・スタンダードの本質: 技術覇権競争の新展開}},
 author={國領 二郎},
 editor={新宅 純二郎 and 許斐 義信 and 柴田 高},
 year={2000},
 page={97-105},
 publisher={有斐閣}

}
國領二郎　「オープンネットワーク型経営の革新 -プラットフォーム戦略とデファクト・スタンダード-」,　新宅純二郎、許斐義信、柴田高編　『デファクトスタンダードの本質』　有斐閣,　2000年,　97-105ページ.