Jaakko Vuolasto

Lappeenranta – Lahti University of Technology LUT

To remain vital, a digital platform ecosystem requires governance. In the extant literature a platform ecosystem typically has a single focal actor who is responsible for the governance. We conducted a case study in heavy industry to understand how the responsibilities of a focal actor in governing a business-to-business platform ecosystem are shar...

The field of software ecosystems is rapidly maturing and significant numbers of articles are published each year to further develop our understanding of this concept and support innovation through it. The growth of the field also brings along challenges, such as findability and reusability of research results, coordination of research initiatives,...

The question of how software development needs are channeled into different parts of a platform ecosystem has been addressed by separating owners and complementors and by separating the core and the periphery. This is not necessarily sufficient in business-to-business ecosystems due to their characteristics. Our grounded theory study observes a B2B...

Digital platform research has focused mostly on global platforms, where the users of the platform are consumers. Business-to-business (B2B) digital platforms have received less attention. This study observes and provides an early report on a digital platform for forestry, bringing together forest companies, contractors, and forest machine manufactu...