From private digital platforms to public data spaces: implications for the digital transformation

Abstract Technological developments such as Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence continue to drive digital transformation business society. With advent platform-based ecosystems their potential address complex challenges, there is a trend towards greater interconnectedness between different stakeholders co-create services based on provision use data. While previous research mainly focused within organizations, it growing importance understand implications for layers (e.g., interorganizational cooperation platform ecosystems). In particular, conceptualization public data spaces related provide promising opportunities. This special issue contains five papers topic and, with editorial, further contributes by providing an initial spaces' foster innovative progress from management perspective.