Amazon, its suppliers, and its customers create a lock-in effect through mutual investments that lead to sunk costs and indirect network effects, making it costly and risky for competitors like Walmart Plus to entice these actors to migrate.

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  Business ecosystems as a way to activate lock-in in business models

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• Business ecosystems as a way to activate lock-in in business models link.springer.com Springer via serper

Referenced by nodes (4)

• lock-in concept
• Amazon entity
• indirect network effects concept
• sunk costs concept