---
_id: '35732'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: While the Information Systems (IS) discipline has researched digital platforms
    extensively, the body of knowledge appertaining to platforms still appears fragmented
    and lacking conceptual consistency. Based on automated text mining and unsupervised
    machine learning, we collect, analyze, and interpret the IS discipline’s comprehensive
    research on platforms—comprising 11,049 papers spanning 44 years of research activity.
    From a cluster analysis concerning platform concepts’ semantically most similar
    words, we identify six research streams on platforms, each with their own platform
    terms. Based on interpreting the identified concepts vis-à-vis the extant research
    and considering a temporal perspective on the concepts’ application, we present
    a lexicon of platform concepts, to guide further research on platforms in the
    IS discipline. Researchers and managers can build on our results to position their
    work appropriately, applying a specific theoretical perspective on platforms in
    isolation or combining multiple perspectives to study platform phenomena at a
    more abstract level.
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Bartelheimer, Christian
  id: '49160'
  last_name: Bartelheimer
- first_name: Philipp
  full_name: zur Heiden, Philipp
  id: '64394'
  last_name: zur Heiden
- first_name: Hedda
  full_name: Lüttenberg, Hedda
  last_name: Lüttenberg
- first_name: Daniel
  full_name: Beverungen, Daniel
  id: '59677'
  last_name: Beverungen
citation:
  ama: 'Bartelheimer C, zur Heiden P, Lüttenberg H, Beverungen D. Systematizing the
    lexicon of platforms in information systems: a data-driven study. <i>Electronic
    Markets</i>. 2022;32:375-396. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6">10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6</a>'
  apa: 'Bartelheimer, C., zur Heiden, P., Lüttenberg, H., &#38; Beverungen, D. (2022).
    Systematizing the lexicon of platforms in information systems: a data-driven study.
    <i>Electronic Markets</i>, <i>32</i>, 375–396. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6">https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Bartelheimer_zur Heiden_Lüttenberg_Beverungen_2022, title={Systematizing
    the lexicon of platforms in information systems: a data-driven study}, volume={32},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6">10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6</a>},
    journal={Electronic Markets}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
    author={Bartelheimer, Christian and zur Heiden, Philipp and Lüttenberg, Hedda
    and Beverungen, Daniel}, year={2022}, pages={375–396} }'
  chicago: 'Bartelheimer, Christian, Philipp zur Heiden, Hedda Lüttenberg, and Daniel
    Beverungen. “Systematizing the Lexicon of Platforms in Information Systems: A
    Data-Driven Study.” <i>Electronic Markets</i> 32 (2022): 375–96. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6">https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6</a>.'
  ieee: 'C. Bartelheimer, P. zur Heiden, H. Lüttenberg, and D. Beverungen, “Systematizing
    the lexicon of platforms in information systems: a data-driven study,” <i>Electronic
    Markets</i>, vol. 32, pp. 375–396, 2022, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6">10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6</a>.'
  mla: 'Bartelheimer, Christian, et al. “Systematizing the Lexicon of Platforms in
    Information Systems: A Data-Driven Study.” <i>Electronic Markets</i>, vol. 32,
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022, pp. 375–96, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6">10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6</a>.'
  short: C. Bartelheimer, P. zur Heiden, H. Lüttenberg, D. Beverungen, Electronic
    Markets 32 (2022) 375–396.
date_created: 2023-01-10T10:00:55Z
date_updated: 2024-04-18T12:40:34Z
ddc:
- '380'
department:
- _id: '526'
doi: 10.1007/s12525-022-00530-6
file:
- access_level: closed
  content_type: application/pdf
  creator: dabe
  date_created: 2024-04-18T12:39:00Z
  date_updated: 2024-04-18T12:39:00Z
  file_id: '53573'
  file_name: EM - Lexicon of Platform Terms.pdf
  file_size: 1262427
  relation: main_file
  success: 1
file_date_updated: 2024-04-18T12:39:00Z
has_accepted_license: '1'
intvolume: '        32'
jel:
- L86
keyword:
- Platform
- Text mining
- Machine learning
- Data communications
- Interpretive research
- Systems design and implementation
language:
- iso: eng
page: 375-396
publication: Electronic Markets
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1019-6781
  - 1422-8890
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'Systematizing the lexicon of platforms in information systems: a data-driven
  study'
type: journal_article
user_id: '59677'
volume: 32
year: '2022'
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