This book sheds light on the digital transformation in commerce with a particular emphasis on platforms, applications and supporting technologies. Digitalization has now appeared as a real necessity for all companies, large and small, in all sectors from manufacturing to services... [The Handbook of Research on the Platform Economy and the Evolution of E-Commerce] investigates the platform and e-commerce from a variety of perspectives... – Prof. Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC), School of Management, Swansea University, UK & Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Symbiosis International University (Deemed), Pune, India)