Coen (/Koon/) van der Geest (coenvdgeest.com) is a Assistant Professor at the department of Digitalization. Before this he was a PhD Candidate at the KIN Center for Digital Innovation at the School of Business and Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds an MSc in Business Administration (Digital Business and Innovation)(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and an MPhil in Business in Society (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
Coen’s research focuses on the dynamics within and around digital platform architectures, specifically on the development and use of application programming interfaces (APIs) for collaborative innovation, and the effects of IT architecture design on IS complexity. His research is published in the leading journal of California Management Review.
van der Geest, C., & van Angeren, J. (2023). Architectural generativity: leveraging complementor contributions to the platform architecture. California Management Review, 65(2), 71-92.