Abstract
Uber and Airbnb have advanced into emblematic cases in debates in which the new digital capitalism is framed in terms of the so-called sharing economy. While this strand of inquiry has produced a wealth of insights into the workings and impacts of peer-to-peer platforms, the digital transformation of business-to-business interactions has so far attracted less attention. The present Exchange confronts this challenge by juxtaposing platform conceptions with a pre-eminent framework to conceptualize business-to-business relations: global production networks (GPN). Specifically, this Exchange addresses challenges posed by the platform approach for the GPN framework in the four dimensions: value (from owning assets to granting access), governance (from make-or-buy to employ-or-enable), management (from back-end to front-end) and labour (from jobs to gigs).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1005-1016 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Environment and Planning A: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Apr 2020 |
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