The software industry is changing as a result of the rising influence both of packaged and of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), but the change trajectory of the industry is still not well understood. This article aims to contribute to clarifying software industry evolution through a...

This paper has the objective of measuring the market power of Microsoft in the software industry. We develop a two tier arguent. Firstly we estimate the scale economies within the industry. We then make the crude hypothesis that a firm's success in this industry is linked to its size, based on...

The software industry is changing as a result of the rising influence both of packaged and of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), but the change trajectory of the industry is still not well understood. This article aims to contribute to clarifying software industry evolution through a...

Jamendo is a website for the legal, free downloading of music. This platform of "free" online music, the biggest in the world, operates on the basis of Creative Commons licences. The survey presented here was carried out on a sample of 767 artists (solo musicians or groups) who are members of...

Malgré un usage répandu dans le secteur du commerce, le concept de business model (BM) reste largement à préciser. L'objectif de cet article est donc de mettre en évidence les éléments constitutifs d'un BM dans la distribution puis d'en dresser une première typologie. Nous sommes amenés...

Cet article a pour objet de montrer la manière dont le modèle 4C développé par Miller et Le Breton Miller (2010) complète l'approche de la stratégie par le business model. L'approche par le business model permet d'appréhender la stratégie à un niveau intermédiaire entre les grandes...

Research states that the success of a specific innovation cannot be predicted. As a consequence, the value of such an innovation can only be stated very late in the development process, or even in retrospect. Our empirical research shows that professionals directly engaged in the design process...

The deployment of urban logistics solutions is one of the main pending questions in the field of urban goods transport research and practice. Indeed, although several solutions and projects have been tested in the last years, only few of them reach an operational phase and remain viable in time....

L'objectif de ce papier est de mettre la théorie des parties prenantes au cœur du débat sur le concept du business model. Ces dernières ont été souvent ignorées ou implicitement citées dans les travaux académiques. Nous donnons ainsi une nouvelle fonctionnalité du business model. Notre...

Technological innovation projects must be accompanied by upstream strategic analysis on the related value creation model. It can be shown that generally successful technological innovations have also involved business model innovation. Exploration of new business models is however particularly...