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Designing new business models: blue sky thinking and testing

Wrigley, Cara; Bucolo, Sam; Straker, Karla - In: Journal of Business Strategy 37 (2016) 5, pp. 22-31

Purpose In what is going to be an uncertain and rapidly evolving global economic landscape, it is clear that firms will have to become more adaptive and responsive to changes within their marketplace. To do this, businesses will not only need to engage in business model experimentation but also...

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Business cooperatives: when does sharing become a drawback?

Roux, Benoît; Plé, Loïc - In: Journal of Business Strategy 38 (2017) 4, pp. 11-20

Purpose Cooperatives are relatively understudied compared with investor-owned companies, yet their economic impact makes them important to consider. This study is to focus on business cooperatives that gather firms or entrepreneurs that share the same social and economic motivations and need to...

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Customers as creative resources: their influence on firm freedom

Plé, Loïc; Lecocq, Xavier - In: Journal of Business Strategy 36 (2015) 4, pp. 11-22

Purpose – Researchers and practitioners usually consider that integrating customers in firms’ business models comes with positive consequences. However, customer integration may also detrimentally influence firms by limiting their strategic and operational latitude, which, in this context,...

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Another failed M&A: misaligned business models as culprit

Le Floc’h, Gaël; Scaringella, Laurent - In: Journal of Business Strategy 38 (2017) 5, pp. 18-26

Purpose Literature on business models (BMs) has grown ve ry rapidly since the beginning of the twenty-first century, and although the theoretical and empirical literature has developed significantly, the number of practical and management-oriented studies remains relatively low. A recent debate...

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Critical design and evaluation factors of mobile business models

Al-Debei, Mutaz M.; Al-Lozi, Enas; Al-Hujran, Omar - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 28 (2015) 5, pp. 698-717

cases are Orange Business Services (OBS); Apple’s iPhone services and applications, and NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode service …, Explicit, and Unique BMs with Fitting Network-Mode, which, if adopted by MNOs, would ensure their long-term success by …,” “Uniqueness,” and “Fitting Network-Mode” are industry-oriented. Research limitations/implications – Although the paper provides in …

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How do Open Source software companies respond to institutional pressures? A business model perspective

Mouakhar, Khaireddine; Tellier, Albéric - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 30 (2017) 4, pp. 534-554

Purpose Open Source software companies (OSSCs) are confronted with institutional pressures from Open Source software (OSS) communities. They must find an acceptable balance between the expectations of these communities and their own business model. However, there are still few studies that try...

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Determinants of blockchain adoption as decentralized business model by Spanish firms – an innovation theory perspective

Hashimy, Loha; Jain, Geetika; Grifell-Tatjé, Emili - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 123 (2022) 1, pp. 204-228

Purpose Large attention surrounds identifying the meaningful blockchain business model on financial services, while a little focus about non-financial organizations and solutions in terms of how the blockchain business model can affect the organization and bring more value. To address the...

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Social media based value creation and business models

Ketonen-Oksi, Sanna; Jussila, Jari J.; Kärkkäinen, Hannu - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 116 (2016) 8, pp. 1820-1838

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to create an organized picture of the current understanding of social media-based value creation and business models. Design/methodology/approach Following the process model presented by , a systematic literature review of academic journal articles published...

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Strategy from the perspective of contract manufacturers

Szalkai, Zsuzsanna; Magyar, Mária - In: IMP Journal 11 (2017) 1, pp. 150-172

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategy of contract manufacturers (CMs). The research question is the following: how can the strategy of CMs be explained? The purpose is to better understand this activity though using different theoretical approaches and analyzing two...

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Business models in business networks – how do they emerge?

La Rocca, Antonella; Snehota, Ivan - In: IMP Journal 11 (2017) 3, pp. 398-416

Purpose The expanding body of research on business models generally assumes that firms operate in a “transactional” context. Several recent studies suggest that the concept of business models in contexts where relationships matter, such as business markets, involves issues that the...

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