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206 gap statements mined from Digital Platforms and Economics papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,846 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • This suggests that ecosystem transformation should be examined not only as a driver of growth but also as a process that may generate adaptation costs and transition risks.

    Algorithmic Dependency and Merchant Vulnerability in Social Commerce Ecosystems: Evidence from TikTok Shop Seller Reviews · 2026 · DOI

  • Asking which employee approved an individual action is insufficient when the relevant economic choice was embedded upstream in a model, API policy, or queue rule.

    Latency as an Economic Constraint in Digital Markets: Temporal Feasibility, Algorithmic Coordination, and Speed Races · 2026 · DOI

  • These results give policymakers an important perspective: they need to do more than just connect people; they need to start capturing value. This strategic change is necessary to mitigate the risks of functional lock-in that peripheral regions encounter in the digital era and to foster genuine digital sustainability and equitable socio-economic development in those areas.

    Platform Governance and Digital Sustainability: A Systemic Functional Dependency Perspective · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could explore the impact of competition among different sellers within the same product market under conditions of demand elasticity on bilateral platforms. Future research could consider introducing other forms of marginal costs, such as assuming ci = 1 2 v2, (i = 1, 3).

    Platform First-Party Product Entry and Pricing Strategy under Cost Differences and Capacity Constraints · 2024 · DOI

  • Regulators should likewise avoid treating the transfer of privacy control rights as universally welfare-improving and should account for the extent to which limited information reduces the quality of services received by consumers.

    Consumer Privacy Control and Targeted Advertisement on Content Platforms: Resolving the Privacy–Personalization Paradox in Data-Driven Marketing · 2026 · DOI

  • The study provides context-specific, perception-based evidence that should be examined further through longitudinal, objective, and comparative research across industries.

    Macro-Contextual Factors Associated with Dominant-Design Formation: Evidence from China’s Electric-Bus Industry · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could examine the proposed relationships using longitudinal data, objective indicators, and comparative evidence from other green-technology contexts.

    Macro-Contextual Factors Associated with Dominant-Design Formation: Evidence from China’s Electric-Bus Industry · 2026 · DOI

  • Furthermore, a ‘win-win’ outcome is most likely when driver supply is scarce but passenger demand is high.

    Competition and coopetition in asymmetric ride-hailing markets · 2026 · DOI

  • However, pricing decisions for these platforms remain underexplored, particularly in the presence of demand volatility and other external risks.

    Pricing strategies for digital freight platforms with risk attitudes: a two-sided market theory-based approach · 2026 · DOI

  • Existing literature predominantly examines value innovation processes or results, while systematic investigations of its key determinants are scarce.

    How Do Complementary Assets Influence the Value Innovation of Service Platform Enterprises? Evidence from a Dual Case Study in China · 2025 · DOI

  • While it is plausible that similar learning opportunities could arise from efforts to resolve other types of market frictions, such as those related to trust, it remains unclear whether addressing these frictions would similarly result in myopic behavior by platform participants.

    Myopic Expansions on Digital Platforms · 2026 · DOI

  • Incentive compatibility and the need to encode enforceable rules for behavioral stability. The challenge of identifying vulnerability dimensions that destabilize markets and distilling design principles that inform governance configuration.

    Architecting Micro-Market Resilience: A Signal–Belief–Decision Framework for E-Commerce Platforms · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of a middle-range theoretical architecture for proactive, consumer-centric design. The need to identify vulnerability dimensions that destabilize markets and distill design principles that inform governance configuration.

    Architecting Micro-Market Resilience: A Signal–Belief–Decision Framework for E-Commerce Platforms · 2026 · DOI

  • Balancing the need for updates with the potential negative impact on demand.

    Updating at the expense of demand? The case of platform apps · 2026 · DOI

  • The incorporation of digital tools is not always correlated with increased satisfaction. Little is known about how digital health insurance platforms affect overall policyholder retention and loyalty.

    IMPACT OF HEALTH INSURANCE PLATFORM ON POLICY HOLDER SATISFACTION AND LOYALTY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COIMBATORE CITY · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research can test the proposed framework empirically. Future research can explore the application of AI in mitigating digital noise.

    Expanding Social Capital with AI: Mitigating Digital Noise for Synergistic Cross-Functional Alignment in Global B2B Platform Ecosystems · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of the impact of information sharing strategies on supply chain management in multi-platform e-commerce markets. The need for effective information sharing strategies that enhance decision-making efficiency and supply chain responsiveness.

    Information sharing strategies and the optimization of supply chain management in multi-platform e-commerce markets · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of transparency and accountability in the design and operation of recommender systems. The need for more nuanced and diverse content on digital platforms.

    The moral in the machine: Rentier mechanisms in content recommender system on digital platforms · 2026 · DOI

  • Applied here, the first is inconclusive, the second works exactly as advertised, and the third leaves the reverse explanation neither supported nor excluded. The forward-versus-backward contrast is the right first test, and it is inconclusive here.

    Faster After a Weak Video: Platform Signals and Upload Timing on YouTube · 2026 · DOI

  • The study recommends that government and financial institutions should improve and expand electronic payment infrastructure to support effective implementation of cashless policy. Businesses and stakeholders should also promote the use of electronic payment platforms through awareness and improved access.

    The impact of cashless police on business transactions in Nigeria · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper's argument remains theoretical and does not claim that AI directly creates social capital or performance.

    Expanding Social Capital with AI: Mitigating Digital Noise for Synergistic Cross-Functional Alignment in Global B2B Platform Ecosystems · 2026 · DOI

  • More specifically, this research fills a significant gap in the literature on platforms and multi-sided markets by evaluating the strategic development of super apps from a multisectoral perspective.

    Unveiling the Dynamics of Super Apps: Adoption Factors and Strategic Insights across Key Industries · 2026 · DOI

  • Moreover, our analysis contributes to the underexplored issue of market segmentation structure under different leadership forms.

    Leadership-Driven Pricing and Customization in Collaborative Manufacturing: A Platform Dynamics Perspective · 2025 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in understanding how network effects and multi-sided platform structures operate across distinct industry contexts. The gap matters because the conditions shaping platform economics vary considerably across sectors.

    How Digital Platforms Create and Capture Value: A Comparative Case Study of Spotify and Uber · 2026 · DOI

  • The application of the moral economy framework to other areas of digital platform research. The development of more nuanced and transparent recommender systems that prioritize user preferences. The study of the impact of regulatory interventions on the promotion of diverse and original content on digital platforms.

    The moral in the machine: Rentier mechanisms in content recommender system on digital platforms · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) Future research could examine the proposed relationships using longitudinal data, objective indicators, and comparative evidence from other green-technology contexts (“Macro-Contextual Factors Associated with Dominant-Design Formation: Evidence…”, 2026); (2) A ‘win-win’ outcome is most likely when driver supply is scarce but passenger demand is high (“Competition and coopetition in asymmetric ride-hailing markets”, 2026); (3) Pricing decisions for these platforms remain underexplored, particularly in the presence of demand volatility and other external risks (“Pricing strategies for digital freight platforms with risk attitudes: a…”, 2026); (4) The lack of a middle-range theoretical architecture for proactive, consumer-centric design (“Architecting Micro-Market Resilience: A Signal–Belief–Decision Framework for…”, 2026); (5) Little is known about how digital health insurance platforms affect overall policyholder retention and loyalty (“IMPACT OF HEALTH INSURANCE PLATFORM ON POLICY HOLDER SATISFACTION AND LOYALTY…”, 2026). 206 gap statements have been mined from Digital Platforms and Economics papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,846 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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