Innovation and Policy Support for Two-Sided Market Platforms: Can Government Policy Makers and Executives Optimize Both Societal Value and Profits?

Dawoon Jung
Dawoon Jung
Research Center for Smarter Supply Chain, Dongwu Business School, Soochow University, 215000 Jiangsu, China;
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Byung Cho Kim
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Byung Cho Kim
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6328-873X
Department of Logistics, Service and Operations Management, Korea University Business School, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea;
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Myungsub Park
Myungsub Park
Department of Logistics, Service and Operations Management, Korea University Business School, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea;
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Detmar W. Straub
Detmar W. Straub
Institute for Business and Information Technology, Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
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Research Center for Smarter Supply Chain, Dongwu Business School, Soochow University, 215000 Jiangsu, China;

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Byung Cho Kim

Department of Logistics, Service and Operations Management, Korea University Business School, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea;

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Myungsub Park

Department of Logistics, Service and Operations Management, Korea University Business School, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea;

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Detmar W. Straub

Institute for Business and Information Technology, Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122

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Published Online:29 Aug 2019https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2019.0851

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