Building the Platform Economy: How Digital Entrepreneurship Can Support Economic Growth and Address Social and Environmental Challenges

This book aims to highlight the social, environmental, and economic challenges of the platform economy while providing interdisciplinary solutions from the fields of management, law and regulations, economics, and technology. The book will be organized into three sections. In Section 1, the authors explain the managerial strategies of digital entrepreneurship in the platform economy aimed at fostering economic growth and addressing social and environmental challenges. Section 2 considers how industry-specific solutions within the platform economy contribute to economic growth and help address social and environmental challenges. Section 3 provides an explanation of the institutional framework, along with a set of scientific and methodological developments and practical recommendations for improving regional governance of economic growth, as well as for more comprehensively and effectively addressing social and environmental challenges in the contemporary platform economy.