Monopolization and competition under platform capitalism

Analyzing transformations in the computing industry

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12656049
AutoresDevika Narayan (0009-0002-3059-3356, University of Oxford, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume25
Fascículo2
Páginas287-306
Data de publicação2023-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448221149939
OpenAlexW4321602711
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas26

Cross-disciplinary scholarship on platform-mediated transformations is growing rapidly. Large-scale data centers that aggregate hardware resources are an important element shaping the expansion of platform economies. The impact of this configuration of hardware on the dynamics of software development is still unclear. Data centers aggregate and centralize computing capacity and in turn enable the growth of globally distributed and organizationally decentralized corporate ecosystems. Scholarship in this area is beginning to examine the relations between dominant technology corporations and their networks of users and third-party companies. I contribute to literature on platform ecosystems by examining changing organizational and market dynamics introduced by cloud computing within the corporate computing sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews with managers of software startups in India, I focus on falling barriers to entry, new organizational forms, and emergent transnational dimensions. Using this case, I theorize monopolization as being embedded in competitive ecosystem dynamics

Business · Capitalism · Cloud computing · Competition (biology · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Industrial organization · Market economy · Monopolization · Monopoly · Political science · Scholarship · Computer Science · Digital Platforms and Economics · ICT Impact and Policies · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Ecology