In this paper we study the impact of a radical technological innovation on business models. Do firms react by adjusting their business models incrementally, through iterative steps? Or do such innovations lead, instead, to a big bang of new innovative business models that are all adopted and...

In this paper, we use data from a survey of 151 French record companies to test the “long-tail” hypothesis at the level of the firm. More specifically, we test whether, following the “selling less of more” principle coined by Anderson (<CitationRef CitationID="CR2">2006</CitationRef>), record companies that have adapted to...</citationref>

The effect of the Internet and Information and Communication Technologies on the Record Industry In this paper, we analyze how the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of the Internet affects the record industry. We show that the record industry is impacted in...