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What is Platform Model

Chapter 14
Handbook of Research on Emerging Business Models and Managerial Strategies in the Nonprofit Sector
it is enhanced by technologies that create efficiencies in social networking and demand aggregation that help social networks to expand. Platforms offer a higher average value when attracting more participants. The larger the network, greater scale generates more value, which attracts more participants, which creates more value, and thus forming another virtuous feedback loop that produces monopolies.
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New Perspectives: Not-for-Profit Organizations in the Advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution
Albena Antonova (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2537-0.ch014
Abstract
As social and environmental struggles intensify, the raising economic and social role of not for profits will continue to expand globally. Not for profit organizations have the potential to mobilize digitally-enabled communities and to work on various global challenges, overcoming the limitations of governmental institutions, local and short-term perspectives of public administration and private interests of business organizations. The present research aims to reassess the business models and value creation behind NFP operational models, their role for social innovation, the impact of the new technologies and the characteristics of the emerging digital communities. Further, there will be discussed the new perspectives for NFP development as innovative instruments, protecting social interests between government and private organizations, and contributing to solve increasing social problems.
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Blind User Interfacing: Requirements, Models and a Framework
Model that contains information about the capabilities, constraints and limitations of the target platform.
Published in Chapter: Blind User Interfacing: Requirements, Models and a Framework; From: Handbook of Research on Personal Autonomy Technologies and Disability Informatics
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