Information technology enables disruptive innovations, causing paradigm shifts in how companies do business. IT allows companies to break with traditional business models and management thinking. This article explores IT-driven business model innovations empirically by examining how 343 Danish...

This paper presents findings emerging from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program. The aim of I-Corps is to aid in transitioning academic research into commercialized technology. Through this program, the authors developed and tested hypotheses in search of a...

An electronic-based business model (BM) is the new paradigm in business model innovation (BMI). In order to adapt to an ever-changing and extremely volatile Internet environment, an enterprise needs a systematic approach and tools to improve its existing business model or create a new one. This...

The paper presents a study of a new social farming initiative: kindergarten farms. The paper emphasizes the value of potential synergies between the agricultural and the educational service. The two case studies analyzed are high-quality Italian kindergartens supported by a Marche Region project...

Business Models haben in der Managementpraxis innovativer Existenzgründungen an Bedeutung gewonnen. Während einst Businesspläne das Geschäftskonzept verschriftlichten, dienen gegenwärtig Business Models als zentrales Bezugssystem für Analysen, Bewertungen und Planungen. Sie identifizieren...

Marginal rural areas are undergoing major pressures from the effects of globalization, especially when no alternative has been found to conventional extensive agriculture and a lack of investments and vision squeezes the income of farmers. The objective of the paper is to show how Integrated...

Business model dynamics is important, because high-tech companies, the technology that they commercialize, and the market in which they operate all change over time. We build on the dynamic capability view of the firm to explain business model evolution and innovation, looking particularly at...

Der Megatrend der Digitalisierung verändert gravierend die Architektur von Geschäftsmodellen und erfordert diesbezüglich überarbeitete Instrumente zur konzeptionellen Unterstützung. Der Kern dieses Beitrags ist die Vorstellung des Digital Canvas, einer auf digitale Geschäftsmodelle...