How Does an Incumbent News Media Organization Become a Platform? Employing Intra-Firm Synergies to Launch the Platform Business Model in a News Agency
Jääskeläinen, Atte; Yanatma, Servet; Ritala, Paavo (2021-10-22)
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Jääskeläinen, Atte
Yanatma, Servet
Ritala, Paavo
22.10.2021
Journalism Studies
Taylor & Francis
School of Business and Management
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021102652268
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021102652268
Tiivistelmä
Digital platforms have disrupted traditional news organizations, with new platform-based models gaining ground. However, the incumbents can defend their positions and reap the benefits of multi-sided market structures by establishing a platform business model themselves. We examine a case study of the Austrian News Agency (APA), which gradually formulated a strategy that resulted in a platform-based business model. Platform features were strategized and innovated over time and in phases, with the intent of creating value for customers on both sides of the platform. We found that APA’s platform transformation was enabled by a visionary value proposition backed by a trusted institution’s legitimacy and a co-operative organizational model that provided added incentives for the participating news media companies. The strategy and the business model emerged on the basis of external developments and internal realizations concerning the feasibility of the new platform strategy. Based on our results, we develop a framework for an incumbent strategy formation process towards a platform business model. This framework demonstrates the incumbent organization’s emergent, as well as deliberate, strategic ability to introduce platform features into its business model, based on unique intra-firm synergies with established parts of the business, and highlighting a potential for “incumbent advantage.”
Lähdeviite
Atte Jääskeläinen, Servet Yanatma & Paavo Ritala (2021) How Does an Incumbent News Media Organization Become a Platform? Employing Intra-Firm Synergies to Launch the Platform Business Model in a News Agency, Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2021.1979426
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