Platform Legitimacy

Platform Legitimacy is a construct in platform entrepreneurship that denotes the perceived validity and acceptability of a digital platform’s governance, value proposition, and institutional standing within its ecosystem, distinguishing it from other legitimacy forms by its focus on multi-sided trust, regulatory alignment, and stakeholder recognition in digitally mediated exchange environments.

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Authors

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Institutions

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2017–2026

74

Authors

170

  1. JV
    José van Dijck

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    3 publications · 167 citations

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  2. VL
    Vili Lehdonvirta

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 135 citations

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  3. TB
    Torsten Bornemann

    University of Stuttgart, Germany

    2 publications · 115 citations

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  4. PS
    Philipp Sandner

    Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany

    2 publications · 115 citations

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  5. KF
    Koen Frenken

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    2 publications · 149 citations

    2

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Venues

  1. Technological Forecasting and Social Change

    4 publications · 395 citations

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  2. Information Communication & Society

    ICS · 1 publications · 21 citations

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  3. European Journal of Communication

    2 publications · 74 citations

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  4. Information & Management

    3 publications · 129 citations

    3

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  5. Journal of Cultural Economy

    2 publications · 84 citations

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