Table 5 Proposed research directions and future research questions
From: Challenges in platforming and digitizing decentralized energy services
Challenge | Proposed Research Direction and Future Research Questions |
|---|---|
Agility and openness | How does platformization cultivate IS-driven resource-interdependent capabilities to achieve operational agility for energy services providers? |
How can the level of cross-organizational collaboration and networking reflect on the platform openness? | |
Ecosystem management and governance | How can several platforms be integrated into one ecosystem? |
How can the platform architecture and governance facilitate and scale up flexible trading with DSO’s? | |
How do service providers and other energy players build dynamic capabilities for their platform ecosystem? What are the dynamic capabilities required for platform ecosystem well-being in an energy services context? | |
What are the dynamic capabilities required for platform ecosystem well-being in an energy services context? | |
Design | How can platform design facilitate incentives for prosumers? |
What are the socio—technical impacts of transition toward platform - based and digitalized business model for flexibility service providers? | |
Lack of standards | How will future electricity platforms emerge and survive? |
How can appropriate technology standards that enable interoperability and encourage economies of scale to be established? | |
Business models | How do digitalization and platformization disrupt incumbent energy providers’ business models? |
How can organizations have a platform business model that can cope with technological disruption? | |
Contracts and relationship management | How will standards cope with security, scalability, and process integrity issues? |
How can platforms help achieve coordination mechanisms between ecosystem actors? |