Business model research often reflect unlimited flexibility in how firms can renew their business. We present a multiple case study of 21 companies in the Danish container sea freight sector to show how firms located in highly integrated supply chains experience business model lock-in due to...

In this conceptual paper, we employ business model configuration theoretical lenses to explore how firms re-internationalise. Specifically, we discuss various reasons for firms strategic choices to de-internationalise, and put forward, using a business model configuration perspective, respective...

Through business model theoretical lenses, we explore the impact of de-internationalization on firms and their industries and challenges in re-configuring their business models and re-thinking their value propositions in response to de-internationalization. This is a conceptual paper. We put...

This study presents a framework for assessing and classifying Business Model Transformation (BMT) of established firms. Using Teece's definition of interlinked BM dimensions, we propose a diamond model to describe a change in a given firm's BM based on the following four dimensions: Target...

The main idea of the article says that the concept BM imitation (BMIm) has not been developed adequately in the strategic management field, even though it has been greatly used recently by researchers. Therefore, the aim of our research is to propose a definition of BMIm and to highlight the...

During the past quarter of a century the academic business and management literature has placed an increased premium on incorporating theory within contributions to it. Coincidentally this is the same time period during which the study of the business model domain has occurred. For the most...