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Economic Analysis: Theory and Practice
 

A typology of digital platforms of interfirm interaction

Vol. 19, Iss. 7, JULY 2020

Received: 11 June 2020

Received in revised form: 20 June 2020

Accepted: 1 July 2020

Available online: 30 July 2020

Subject Heading: BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

JEL Classification: L22, L25, М21

Pages: 1231–1248

https://doi.org/10.24891/ea.19.7.1231

Popov E.V. Ural Institute of Management, Branch of RANEPA, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
epopov@mail.ru

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5513-5020

Simonova V.L. Ural Institute of Management, Branch of RANEPA, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
vlsimonova1409@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2814-464X

Grishina V.V. Ural Institute of Management, Branch of RANEPA, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
valeria902010@mail.ru

ORCID id: not available

Subject. The article addresses economic interfirm interaction and processes that form digital platforms in the context of sustainable development of the society.
Objectives. Our aim is to develop an original typology of digital platforms that provide intercompany interaction.
Methods. The study rests on the system comparative analysis of prior research, taking into account our own findings.
Results. We expanded the essence and substance of the definition of the digital platform in the field of interfirm interaction, defined new categories of types of digital platforms in the business by the level of integration and knowledge-intensity. We also considered parameters of the cost of implementation and the level of digitalization of interfirm interaction, generated a typology of digital platforms in interfirm interaction.
Conclusions. The paper defines aspects of further research aimed at developing a methodology for calculating the digitalization coefficient of intercompany interaction. The theoretical significance of the research is in expanding the theoretical apparatus of digitalization of intercompany interaction. The practical significance of the results is in building a mechanism for evaluating the level of digitalization of intercompany interaction.

Keywords: digital platform, intercompany interaction, typology, information technology

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