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Co-creation and Fine-Tuning of Boundary Resources in Small-Scale Platformization

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Nordic Contributions in IS Research (SCIS 2016)

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Most research on platform innovation studies the phenomena from a distance due to lack of access. This paper reports from within an action research case of platform development in a small-scale context. The case is based on a regional business initiative with the goal to establish an arena for mobile commerce and stimulate local industry growth. It was conducted in collaboration between researchers and third-party developers. The article shows how the initial phases of platformization are characterized by socio-technical arrangements, co-creation of boundary resources and intimate knowledge communication. The paper contributes to platform research by acknowledging a small-scale context for platform research. It further develops distributed tuning of boundary resources into an intimate fine-tuning process that we illustrate is valid for a small-scale context.

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  1. University West, Trollhättan, Sweden

    Anna Sigridur Islind, Tomas Lindroth, Ulrika Lundh Snis & Carsten Sørensen

  2. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

    Carsten Sørensen

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Islind, A.S., Lindroth, T., Snis, U.L., Sørensen, C. (2016). Co-creation and Fine-Tuning of Boundary Resources in Small-Scale Platformization. In: Lundh Snis, U. (eds) Nordic Contributions in IS Research. SCIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 259. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43597-8_11

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