Author(s)

Chenyang Wang ¹, Wenping Luo ¹, Gedong Jiang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China

Corresponding Author

Chenyang Wang

ABSTRACT

With the rapid development of Internet and new technology, "platformization" has become a new trend of enterprise organization. The rise of Google, Amazon, Alibaba, JD and other platforms has different characteristics, development speed and scale from traditional enterprises, and their development and evolution path has attracted academic attention. Combined with Citespace and content analysis method, this paper measured and described the references on the evolution of platform enterprises from 1999 to 2021 in WOS database and made a conclusion: (1) Economics and business are two hot research perspectives. (2) Case analysis and simulation analysis are hot research methods. (3) "Common enterprises in the initial stage—platform enterprises in the growth stage—platform ecology in the mature stage" are the stages of hot spot evolution. Finally, the existing references are integrated and reviewed comprehensively, and the framework model is proposed to clarify the current research status, provide ideas for future research, and put forward prospects for the shortcomings of research.

KEYWORDS

Platform Enterprise, Platform Evolution, Ecosystem, Research Review

CITE THIS PAPER

Chenyang Wang, Wenping Luo, Gedong Jiang, Research Review of Platform Enterprise Evolution from an Ecological Perspective Based on Citespace. Information and Knowledge Management (2022) Vol. 3: 22-30. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/infkm.2022.030103.

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