From Corporates to International Governance: The Coming of the ‘Platform Economy’

... Reform and Development Studies, China. The platform business model is prevalent among the largest global companies such as Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook, Tencent with platform companies accounting for trillions of dollars in market cap and a sizeable part ... ... involved platform strategies. At the level of regional integration arrangements some of the examples of such strategies include the EU’s Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy as well as the Digital Agenda of the Eurasian Economic Union . The use of platforms ...