Didier Bonnet, Boyoon Chang, Geoffrey G. Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, and Leonardo Serra describe six strategic decisions that are essential to making any business-to-business (B2B) digital marketplace succeed. They base their recommendations on their extensive research into B2B platforms and illustrate them with several real cases.
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