Insights into understanding the perspective of digital platform providers

Organizational transformation is an integral part of implementing, joining, or adopting digital platforms in platform-based ecosystems. Insights into the perspective of digital platform providers presented in this paper aim to contribute to understanding the digital platform providers' intention to implement their solution for supporting platform-based business models and operations. This research is motivated by the scarce existing literature on this matter and based on the application of qualitative data-extraction and assessment methods for identifying concepts that define the role of DP providers. Ten factors describing providers perspective were identified and which are related to previous factors describing other stakeholders' intentions as well. By evaluating their capabilities across the conceptual model presented in this paper, providers can assess their readiness to implement DP and thereby evaluate perceived values and risks impacting their intention to implement a DP.