How Platforms Create Value Through Coring and Implications for Market Definition

In business school, we teach that platforms create value through coring. Coring is the steps a digital platform takes to make sure that interactions between different user groups go well, and that as a consequence they wish to return to the platform and use it again. As such, platforms typically take on a governance role and actively manage interactions between different user groups. This article discusses two implications of this business school concept for competition economics: Market definit