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Formation Path of Unfair Competition of Platform Enterprises Based on the Perspective of Configuration
International Journal of Crowd Science 2025, 9(3): 181-189
Published: 26 August 2025
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Competition among platform enterprises is a contest of value creation behaviors by multiple groups and is one of the important manifestations of the crowd science in the field of platform economy. However,the frequent unfair competition among platform enterprises has hindered the healthy and rapid development of the platform economy. Clarifying the source of unfair competition is an important prerequisite to regulate this behavior, and the unfair competition behavior between platform enterprises has a complex generation path. In order to clarify this path, this paper explores the source of unfair competition in the platform economy from the perspective of configuration by qualitative comparative analysis. The results of this paper show that unfair competition among platform enterprises is the result of five factors, such as business difference, enterprise scale difference, innovation ability difference, profitability difference, and regulatory environment. These factors combine with each other to form four configuration paths of unfair competition among platform enterprises. Finally, from the perspective of reducing unfair competition in the industry, this paper puts forward specific ideas to standardize the development of platform economy, including respecting the law of platform development, reducing excessive market intervention, and trying to construct the proactive regulatory model with expected nature.

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Negative externalities in the sharing economy: sources, paths and recommendations
International Journal of Crowd Science 2018, 2(2): 149-163
Published: 13 November 2018
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Purpose

This paper aims to clarify the complex path of negative externalities in the sharing economy and proposes corresponding policy recommendations.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper aims to establish an analytical framework for the negative externalities of the sharing economy and to extract the main factors that produce negative externalities, and then, through qualitative comparative analysis method find out how these factors interact to form a negative externality.

Findings

Negative externalities in the sharing economy come from the joint effect of the sharing degree of the product or service and constraint mechanism, and the current main modes of the shared economy increase the possibility of negative externalities.

Originality/value

The paper proposes a complex path resulting from negative externalities in the shared economy.

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Research on market power and market structure: A direct measure of market power of internet platform enterprises
International Journal of Crowd Science 2017, 1(3): 210-222
Published: 04 September 2017
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Purpose

This paper aims to clear whether the monopoly structure of the internet industry has produced market power and discussed the welfare change of the internet industry monopoly.

Design/methodology/approach

By using new empirical industrial organization methods and taking the e-commerce market as an example, the authors measured market power and economies of scale of the internet platform companies.

Findings

Internet platform enterprises have formed scale economy, but it has not had market power, and the industry still maintains high levels of competition; also, the emergence of large enterprises may increase the welfare of consumers.

Originality/value

The conclusion of this paper clarified actual competition status of internet industry and provided a new foothold for regulation and ideas for the traditional industry to crack the Marshall Conflict.

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