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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

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166: Building Actionable Theories of Ecosystem Harm (12575)

Friday, August 9, 2024
14:00 – 17:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Sheraton: Sheraton Ballroom I
Session Number: 166
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,International,Theme,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/d6KZ8W
Digital platforms and ecosystems have become critically important forms of organization of economic activity, playing an increasingly central and structuring role in the global digital economy. They have created value in novel ways, but also also generated new types of failures and harms. Regulators and policy-makers around the world have become increasingly interested in new regulation focused on ecosystems. The intellectual apparatus used by courts, regulators, and policy-makers has principally come from industrial organization economists, yet there has been a recognition that relying exclusively on I/O approach for competition and innovation within and across ecosystems may be limiting. Insights from management scholars on ecosystems have begun to attract the attention of regulators and policy-makers, but these actors also indicated that they have faced difficulties in applying these insights in an actionable manner. This PDW aspires to expose scholars in the AoM, who do not usually engage with policy-makers, with some key regulators and participants in the critical debate on regulating digital platforms and ecosystems. It also aspires to connect policy-makers with some of the leading scholarly voices and encourage others to develop actionable research whose output will affect the evolution of policy in this critical context. In particular, we aim to make progress on the crucial, recognized issue of how to define and measure firm-inflicted harm that would be specific to the context of digitally connected ecosystems, in a way that complements existing economic theories, and in a way that is actionable for regulators, policy-makers and courts.