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The roles of contextual elements in post-merger common platform development: an empirical investigation

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  • Radhika P Jain
  • Balasubramaniam Ramesh

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With congeneric mergers, which involve firms with interrelated but not identical business lines that develop diverse products and services, a major challenge for organizations is the development of a common platform that fulfills similar business functions across multiple divisions. Through a field study of a post-merger common platform development initiative, we develop a framework that highlights how environmental and organizational contexts shape the process of common platform development (CPD). Our study provides an account of how the focal organization transitioned to a platform-based approach by achieving a balance between stable and flexible aspects of the common platform through negotiations among the divisions acquired through mergers and acquisitions. These negotiations were enabled through various boundary-spanning activities and the guided successive enrichment of boundary objects used in CPD process.

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  • Radhika P Jain & Balasubramaniam Ramesh, 2015. "The roles of contextual elements in post-merger common platform development: an empirical investigation," European Journal of Information Systems, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 159-177, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjisxx:v:24:y:2015:i:2:p:159-177
    DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2014.42
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    1. Jan Frederic Nerbel & Markus Kreutzer, 2023. "Digital platform ecosystems in flux: From proprietary digital platforms to wide-spanning ecosystems," Electronic Markets, Springer;IIM University of St. Gallen, vol. 33(1), pages 1-20, December.

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