Author(s)

Bo Song, Weiming Chee

City University of Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.

Amid the Internet economy, the platform economy has become one of the most valuable topics for research at present. Physical enterprises also embrace the opportunity brought by the development of “Internet Plus” with the popularity of the Internet technology, trying to operate on Internet platforms. According to the existing research, there are few studies on the value source of Internet platform, and there is a lack of description of the original driving force for the expansion of Internet platform. This paper first introduces the development stage of Internet technology. The change in Internet technology has brought about the rapid expansion of the scale of Internet platform. Then the paper makes literature research on transaction expenses, scale economy, and dialectical relationship between market and enterprise. Finally, through model analysis, the valuable sources of the Internet platform are identified as follows: the saving of transaction costs by the Internet platform and the allocation of resources by the Internet platform.

Internet Platform, Transaction Expenses, Internet Technology

Song, B. and Chee, W.M. (2022) The Source of Value for Internet Platforms. Open Access Library Journal, 9, 1-13. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1108884.