An extension of the theses presented in this note can be found in the chapter: Doligalski, T. Platform canvas: Does the platform business model imply disruption and monopolisation?. In Disruptive Platforms (pp. 1-17). Routledge.

!!! The full content of the chapter is available at the publisher website. See also: typology of platforms and communities.

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Among the business models of Internet companies, it is the platforms that attract the most attention from researchers. It is to them that a significant impact on the economy, society and everyday life is attributed. Although platforms have functioned in traditional economies, e.g. in the form of bazaars, their role has increased in the digital economy. This is due to the greater ease of aggregation of sellers and buyers, creators and consumers, or people with the same interests, identities or problems. Platform is defined here as a business model that matches independent agents and facilitates their interactions.
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An extension of the theses presented in this note can be found in the chapter: Doligalski, T. Platform canvas: Does the platform business model imply disruption and monopolisation?. In Disruptive Platforms (pp. 1-17). Routledge.

A platform is a business model that matches independent agents and facilitates their interactions. In this light, the customer is somehow obliged to interact with other subjects to use the platform’s potential. This definition differs from an IT approach, where a product platform is a set of parts, subsystems, interfaces, and manufacturing processes that are shared among a set of products (Meyer and Lehnerd 1997). Here, the customer can use the existing technology to create a product for themselves, without interacting with others. Continue reading →

In 2015, Polish Wikipedia removed a significant number of users from the possibility of page editing without logging in (to be exact: more than half a million IP addresses were blocked – source).

Meanwhile, the definition of public good says that:
– consumption is non-rival,
– it is not possible to exclude anyone from the consumption of a given public good. Continue reading →

Excerpts from the article: T. Doligalski, Internet Business Models in the Consumer Market – a Typological Approach, „Marketing i Rynek”, 12/2018.

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• SSRN (pdf) – Internet Business Models in the Consumer Market 
• ResarchGate (pdf) – Internet Business Models in the Consumer Market

The notion of business model with reference to strategy and revenue model
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Excerpts from the article: T. Doligalski, Internet Business Models in the Consumer Market – a Typological Approach, „Marketing i Rynek”, 12/2018.

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• Journal page
• SSRN (pdf) – Internet Business Models in the Consumer Market 
• ResearchGate (pdf) – Internet Business Models in the Consumer Market

This paper presents characteristics of business models adopted by Internet companies operating in the consumer market. The typology covers online vendors, e-service providers, content providers, multi-sided platforms, and community providers. The business model types are described here, also with respect to selected economic categories. Additionally, the paper discusses the notion of business models from systemic and typological perspectives and compares this term to the notion of strategy and revenue model.

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Below you will find my articles on e-Business Models and Strategies.

Internet Business Models in the Consumer Market – a Typological Approach

What are the internet business models? This is the research question I attempt to answer in this paper. As a result I present five internet business models and describe their characteristics with reference to economic notions. Both, HTML and PDF versions of the article are available.

T. Doligalski, Internet Business Models in the Consumer Market – a Typological Approach, „Marketing i Rynek”, 12/2018.

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• Published as: Tymoteusz Doligalski, Business Models of Internet Companies and Types of Goods Offered, Journal of Business Models (2018), Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 32-36
• Download the pdf: Internet business models (2018).

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The article presents the relations between the business models of internet companies operating in the B2C market and the types of goods they offer (i.e. private, club, common, and public goods). The analysis shows that internet companies provide all four types of goods distinguished in the theory of economics. Continue reading →

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Published as: E. Tomczyk, T. Doligalski, Predicting New Car Registrations: Nowcasting with Google Search and Macroeconomic Data, [in:] Sł. Partycki (ed.),  E-społeczeństwo w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej. Teraźniejszość i perspektywy rozwoju (e-Society in Middle and Eastern Europe. Present and Development Perspectives), Wydawnictwo KUL, Lublin 2015, p. 228-236.

Download the paper as pdf from SSRN:  Predicting New Car Registrations: Nowcasting with Google Search and Macroeconomic Data

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Tymoteusz Doligalski, Emilia Tomczyk, Nowcasting New Car Registrations with Google Search Data and Car Manufacturers’ Website Traffic, paper accepted at the 6th EMAC Regional Conference, Vienna 2015.

• Download the paper as pdf from SSRN: Nowcasting New Car Registrations with Google Search Data and Car Manufacturers’ Website Traffic
• See also: Predicting New Car Registrations: Nowcasting with Google Search and Macroeconomic Data
  
• See also my other articles on e-Business Models and Strategies.

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• This is a conference paper: P. Zaborek, T. Doligalski, S. Sysko-Romańczuk, Value Creation in E-Business and Financial Performance: Researching Polish Online Companies with Amit and Zott’s Model, paper presented at the 4th EMAC Regional Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 25-27, 2013.
• See the augmented journal version of the paper -> P. Zaborek, T. Doligalski, S. Sysko-Romańczuk, Value Creation in e-Business as a Driver of Financial Perfomance: Investigating Business Models of Polish Internet Companies​, “Research on Enterprise in Modern Economy – theory and practice”, 2016 | nr 4 | 101–113.

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The paper presents the outcomes of the survey of the managers of Polish internet companies with the aim of verifying to what extent the e-business value creation model developed by Amit and Zott could be used to explain different profitability levels among firms. The study included 150 businesses with the largest representation of internet retailers and service providers. The major outcome of the study was developing logistic regression model that allowed to establish which variables were statistically significant predictors of operational return on sales ratio. It implied that out of four elements comprising Amit and Zott’s model only Complementarities were closely linked with improved financial performance. The two other elements – Customer Lock-in and Novelty – were not viable predictors while the forth component (Efficiency for Customer) was negatively related to the performance metric.
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• The article was published in Perspectives on Innovations, Economics & Business, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2010.
• Download the full pdf version: Strategies of Value Proposition on the Internet

Abstract: Paper presents strategies of value proposition on the Internet. Author has distinguished and described strategies of efficiency, free values, complete customer solutions, unique values and value co-creation. These strategies are different from traditional strategies of value proposition, which refer values for customers to the level of price.
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