TY - BOOK
T1 - Business-to-Business relations in the online platform environment.
T2 - FWC ENTR/300/PP/2013/FC-WIFO: Final report
AU - Bas, Patrick de
AU - Batura, Olga
AU - Yagafarova, Anastasia
AU - Gorp, Nicolai van
AU - Kesler, Reinhold
AU - Laitenberger, Ulrich
AU - Bertschek, Irene
AU - Pichler, Eva
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - [Background of the study] Online platforms have dramatically changed the digital economy over the last two decades. They play a prominent role in the creation of 'digital value' that underpins future economic growth in the European Union (EU) and consequently are of major importance to the effective functioning of the digital single market. In a consultation on online platforms, conducted by the European Commission to support its Communication on online platforms, concerns were raised by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and microenterprises that imbalances of bargaining power between online platforms and small businesses lead to potentially unfair business-to-business (B2B) practices. The objective of the study is to provide additional evidence to help the Commission determine the scope, actual scale and impact of potentially unfair B2B trading practices applied by online platforms beyond the application of competition law (in its present state).
AB - [Background of the study] Online platforms have dramatically changed the digital economy over the last two decades. They play a prominent role in the creation of 'digital value' that underpins future economic growth in the European Union (EU) and consequently are of major importance to the effective functioning of the digital single market. In a consultation on online platforms, conducted by the European Commission to support its Communication on online platforms, concerns were raised by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and microenterprises that imbalances of bargaining power between online platforms and small businesses lead to potentially unfair business-to-business (B2B) practices. The objective of the study is to provide additional evidence to help the Commission determine the scope, actual scale and impact of potentially unfair B2B trading practices applied by online platforms beyond the application of competition law (in its present state).
KW - 330
U2 - 10.2873/713211
DO - 10.2873/713211
M3 - Report
SN - 978-92-79-68950-5
BT - Business-to-Business relations in the online platform environment.
PB - European Commission
CY - Brussels
ER -