TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gleiß, Alexander
A1  - Degen, Konrad
A1  - Knoth, Alexander
A1  - Pousttchi, Key
A1  - Lucke, Ulrike
T1  - Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform
JF  - Public policy and administration
N2  - The educational sector currently faces a massive digital transformation with various digital offerings entering the market. To provide some orientation in this transforming space, a national digital education platform (NDEP) is under development in Germany as part of a nationwide flagship project. On the one hand, in efficiently connecting the relevant stakeholders to each other and to value-adding education-related offerings, various benefits emerge. On the other hand, monopolising the educational sector and influencing the respective market through a state-controlled platform bears potential regulatory risks from misuse of power by the platform to malpractice by the users. Against this background, we aim to identify and systematise these potential drawbacks prior to the platform’s actual development and implementation. We pursue a qualitative, interpretivist approach for policy analysis, based on ten elite interviews and two workshops. Our results are threefold: (1) We capture the consolidated NDEP architecture; (2) We categorise the range of relevant functions and value propositions of the NDEP; (3) We derive 23 regulatory areas of conflict across the three building blocks that result from the potential ecosystem and function scope configurations of the NDEP. As a contribution to research, we shed new interdisciplinary light on the governance and infrastructure of public-private platforms that enable innovation and collaboration while integrating respective market segments. As a contribution to practice, we provide clear guidance for policy-makers in strategizing the development and governance of and through national digital platforms in education.
KW  - education
KW  - information and communication technologies
KW  - governance
KW  - platform
KW  - policy making
KW  - regulation
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767231202327
SN  - 0952-0767
SN  - 1749-4192
SP  - 1
EP  - 31
PB  - Sage
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pousttchi, Key
A1  - Gleiß, Alexander
T1  - Surrounded by middlemen - how multi-sided platforms change the insurance industry
JF  - Electron Markets
N2  - Multi-sided platforms (MSP) strongly affect markets and play a crucial part within the digital and networked economy. Although empirical evidence indicates their occurrence in many industries, research has not investigated the game-changing impact of MSP on traditional markets to a sufficient extent. More specifically, we have little knowledge of how MSP affect value creation and customer interaction in entire markets, exploiting the potential of digital technologies to offer new value propositions. Our paper addresses this research gap and provides an initial systematic approach to analyze the impact of MSP on the insurance industry. For this purpose, we analyze the state of the art in research and practice in order to develop a reference model of the value network for the insurance industry. On this basis, we conduct a case-study analysis to discover and analyze roles which are occupied or even newly created by MSP. As a final step, we categorize MSP with regard to their relation to traditional insurance companies, resulting in a classification scheme with four MSP standard types: Competition, Coordination, Cooperation, Collaboration.
KW  - Multi-sided platforms
KW  - Insurance industry
KW  - Value network
KW  - Digitalization
KW  - Customer ownership
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-019-00363-w
SN  - 1019-6781
SN  - 1422-8890
VL  - 29
IS  - 4
SP  - 609
EP  - 629
PB  - Springer
CY  - Heidelberg
ER  -