This research deals with the process of business model innovation in services. Definitions and explanations of both general innovation terminologies as well as specific service related once will be given and discussed. Moreover, reasons and implementation strategies will be identified and...

In 2010, General Electric launched an investigation into how multi-national corporations (MNCs) were adapting to rural emerging markets. A team of 33 executives and three academics examined models ranging from Toyota's vehicle servicing program in East Africa to Nokia's localized mobile handset...

It makes no doubt that the development of innovative products benefits from being considered under the perspective of networks and communities. Lead User's theory (LUT) focused mainly on the process by which user innovation may be transformed into commercial product. However, when LUT...

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...

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....

Face à la montée en puissance du concept de Business Model dans la littérature académique, cet article souligne la pertinence de cette notion dans le domaine de l'information financière. Il rend compte d'une étude empirique menée sur l'ensemble des textes fixant les obligations...

Abstract : Suggested by the rise of the concept of business model in the academic literature, this article highlights the relevance of this concept in the field of financial reporting. It reports an empirical study conducted on all the texts setting out the accounting and financial obligations...

An industry's dominant logic is the general scheme of value creation and capture shared by its actors. In high technology fields, technological discontinuities are not enough to disrupt an industry's dominant logic. Identifying the factors that might trigger change in that logic can help...