Considering pursuing the differentiation strategy makes enable the organization to earn its success and to create, capture and sustain economic value. Despite this importance, it is relatively absentminded in empirical studies at the conceptual level. In response to this gap, the purpose of this...

We highlight business model innovation as a way for general managers and entrepreneurs to create and appropriate value, especially in times of economic change. Business model innovation, which involves designing a modified or new activity system, relies on recombining the existing resources of a...

To explain the disproportionate success in acquisition strategies, researchers have examined the role of dyadic dynamics (i.e., interactions between the acquirer and the target firm). In this study, we extend this stream of literature by examining the effects of pre-acquisition IT distance...

The metaverse as it is currently envisioned – a persistent and immersive world based on virtual and augmented reality – is an immense business opportunity across all major sectors and industries and will further increase the volume and variety of available data. Those unlimited data streams...

This research examines social media users' value-creation processes and the drivers of a start-up company's successful social media strategy. This research primarily aims to understand start-ups' effective utilization of social media and value co-creation processes. Although utilizing social...

With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating digital transformation, demand for 5G networks is soaring. 5G networks are an indispensable part of infrastructure supporting immersive content, self-driving technologies, the Internet of Things (IOT), remote services, and smart manufacturing....

The long tail phenomenon has been heavily discussed in recent years. What has been neglected so far is its striking relevance for electronic services. Whereas consumers expectations about information goods are often vague and transient, their requirements are pronounced and specific when it...

This paper argues that the technology and economic determinants of value creation in platform businesses need to be better incorporated in the analysis of the conduct of digital platforms. Platforms operate in an environment of extreme interconnectivity, exhibit many externalities and economies...

Building on a unified definition and the main attributes that have been identified for platform business models, this paper aims to devise a unified data value chain and shed a new light on the value creation process within platform business models. To meet the main aim of the paper, the...