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Joost Rietveld

@gjrietveld.bsky.social

UCL School of Management. Posts about technology, strategy, innovation, platforms, big tech, video games. #platformpapers

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Joost Rietveld @gjrietveld.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Academic research has long focused on how platforms have enabled innovation & economic growth, while accumulating immense power. But what happens when that power is wielded inconsistently? Annabelle Gawer & Martin Harraca discuss in the latest #PlatformPapers blog. open.substack.com/pub/platform...

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Joost Rietveld @gjrietveld.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Excited to announce the 2024 EU-DPRN, European digital platforms research conference at UCL SoM on June 27 & 28! This is the second EU-DPRN conference, which is co-organized by Carmelo Cennamo, Panos Constantinides, and myself. More information and submission form: forms.gle/m4BxY3hmLweV...

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Joost Rietveld @gjrietveld.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Mobile app stores are the new "canonical" setting in platform competition research. These are the two most popular empirical contexts with 33 (consoles) and 30 (mobile apps) studies in the platformpapers.com database, but the trends show that mobile is replacing console.

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