Kazan, E., C.-W. Tan, E. T. K. Lim, C. Sørensen, & J. Damsgaard (Forthcoming): Disentangling Digital Platform Competition: The Case of UK Mobile Payment Platforms. Journal of Management Information Systems Special issue on Financial IS, Underlying Technologies, and the FinTech Revolution. Disentangling Digital Platform Competition: The Case of UK Mobile Payment Platforms Erol Kazan Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School Howitzvej 60, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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[email protected] Carsten Sørensen Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
[email protected] Jan Damsgaard Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School Howitzvej 60, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
[email protected] Last revised: November 26, 2017 __________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Digital platforms confer competitive advantage through superior architectural con- figurations. There is however still a dearth of research that sheds light on the compet- itive attributes which define platform competition from an architectural standpoint. To disentangle platform competition, we opted for the mobile payment market in the United Kingdom (UK) as our empirical