Disruptive Platforms

Tymoteusz Doligalski is associate professor in the E-Business Unit at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. His analysis concerns online companies, in particular platforms, from the perspective of business models and customer relationship management. He is the coordinator of a number of programmes, with a focus on E-Business. He was also a supervisor of student teams participating in the Google Online Marketing Challenge (global winners in 2012 and 2014, European winner in 2011). He publishes research notes on his blog: doligalski.net.Michał Goliński is associate professor in the Institute of Information Systems and Digital Economy at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. His research interests focus on the areas of information society, digital economy, digital destruction and transformation, strategic significance of IT, and the influence of information technology development on contemporary civilisation. He is the author of numerous publications on these issues.Krzysztof Kozłowski is associate professor and head of the Institute of International Studies and is currently the Vice Rector for Teaching and Students’ Affairs at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He is interested in East, Central, and South-East Asian Politics and socio-political change.

• 1 Platform canvas: does the platform business model imply disruption and monopolisation?; 2 GAFA: internal innovators and disruptive monopolists; 3 Platforms in supply chain management: disruption or evolution?; 4 Digital platforms’ internationalisation and its disruptive impact on international business; 5 Market monopolisation through e-commerce? Analysis of price behaviours at the Allegro.pl marketplace platform; 6 Analytics platforms in information technologies: a methodological approach; 7 Consumer shopping behaviours on social media platforms: trends, challenges, business implications; 8 Attention as a scarce resource in the platform economy; 9 Web platforms as a tool for financing 2020 election campaigns in the USA; 10 Digital platforms and Chinese state institutional capacity: why digital platforms are essential for the Chinese way