From Corporates to International Governance: The Coming of the ‘Platform Economy’

... Studies, China. The platform business model is prevalent among the largest global companies such as Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook, Tencent with platform companies accounting for trillions of dollars in market cap and a sizeable part of market cap ... ... country level and across regions as new formats are explored to build new networks and alliances. The emergence of a “platform economy” that engulfs the micro-level of companies and the macro-level of countries and regions may have important implications ...