Electricity storage is considered a valuable source of flexibility whose applications cover the whole electricity value chain. However, most of the existing evaluation methods for electricity storage are conceived for only one specific use of the storage, which often leads to the conclusion that...

The concept of business models and consequently business model innovation has its foundation in corporate practice, strategic management, and industrial economics. However, business models are not a strategy but constitute the core and driver of a strategy as well as the key for decoding,...

There is a long-standing debate on the consequences of the Walmarting phenomenon, namely the spread of Wal-Mart's business model and the national or global implications of its proliferation. On the one hand, Wal-Mart's business practice is based on optimization concepts from logistic, purchasing...

The paper analyses the issue of capital management in an international banking group with regards to the new capital adequacy regulation that will be introduced. The banking system has been severely hit by the current financial crisis and the perspectives look rather challenging, although in...

The slow growth in online marketing revenue for newspapers and the industry’s development of online models has not been enough to stop the industry’s pending demise. This problem has arisen from the increased access to free and more recent content on the internet, supplying the consumers...

A main issue of social housing is economic sustainability. Starting from a financial model for housing projects developed by University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the paper offers some scenarios about social housing economic sustainability, showing how economic, financial, zoning and fiscal...

Search faces (at least) two major challenges. One is to improve the efficiency of retrieving relevant content for all digital formats (images, audio, video, 3D shapes, etc). The second is to make relevant information retrievable in a range of platforms, particularly in high diffusion ones for...

This report offers an in-depth analysis of the major economic developments in the music industry. It looks at music companies, and covers the production and distribution of recorded music, including online distribution, and the competition which these companies face from other online music...

The aim of our work is to study the Business Model (BM) of small and micro business (SMB) in West Africa. Our research is based on a conventionalist and institutionalist approach of the concept of BM. BM and the convention are our conceptual and theoretical initial choice, while the...

<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"--> ?Among recent innovation, open business models (Chesbrough, 2006) refer to business models promoting a division of the innovation process and organizing knowledge sharing with coopetitors. In this paper, we address the following question: what are the consequences, in terms of performance over...