Industry Platforms: Case Studies to Measure Platform Capabilities for US Unicorns

Large-sample empirical research by Cusumano et. al. found that US privately-held unicorns with platform capabilities command on average 123% premium over non-platforms. However, measuring the extent to which a company is platform or non-platform based is a difficult problem given the complexities of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: AlSadah, Yousif Fayez
Other Authors: Cusumano, Michael A.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152746
http://orcid.org/0009-0008-0615-2482