Understanding ex-ante Disruptive Innovation in Platform-Mediated Networks

_Peer-to-peer or multi-sided platform has created disruptions in various industries in the past few years. In this matter, the crowd within the platform has significant role to create disruption. However, there are limited studies in disruptive innovation theory that examines the ex-ante disruptive innovation in platform-mediated networks since it still conducts the perspective of linear product-market supply and demand. By using entrepreneurial opportunities (discovery vs creation) and dynamic capabilities (aggregating vs integrating) theory, this research proposal wants to examine the antecedents of disruptive innovation trajectory (low-end vs new-market) that contributes to new Internet venture growth. Hence, it can contribute to the prediction of disruptive innovation trajectory through entrepreneurial perspective in the platform-mediated networks firm context._ _Keywords: crowd resources, peer-to-peer platform, platform disruption, disruptive innovation, network effect, entrepreneurial opportunities, discovery, creation, dynamic capabilities, aggregation, integration  _