...J Manag Gov DOI 10.1007/s10997-010-9154-1 Internationalization, innovation and entrepreneurship: business models for new technology-based firms Alberto Onetti • Antonella Zucchella • Marian V. Jones • Patricia P. McDougall-Covin Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2010 Abstract New technology-based firms, particularly those that develop their business around a new technological platform, are likely to be impacted by globalization, in terms of both pace of innovation and pressure of competition. For these firms, strategic decisions and growth processes are characterized by a deep interrelationship amongst the processes of internationalization, innovation and entrepreneurship; processes which have tended to be examined independently in distinct bodies of literature. In practice strategic decisions concern each of these processes and address issues such as organizational boundaries, location of the operational activities, what activities to focus on and selection of value partners. The business model by which firms operate needs also to accommodate the spatial dimensions indicated by globalization; and the emergence of global technology markets. Little is known to date about the extent to which business models accommodate or are adapted to internationalization, innovation and entrepreneurship. This paper presents a review of the business model literature from which a generic business model framework is derived, identifying and introducing the main elements...
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...Long Range Planning 43 (2010) 172e194 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation David J. Teece Whenever a business enterprise is established, it either explicitly or implicitly employs a particular business model that describes the design or architecture of the value creation, delivery, and capture mechanisms it employs. The essence of a business model is in defining the manner by which the enterprise delivers value to customers, entices customers to pay for value, and converts those payments to profit. It thus reflects management’s hypothesis about what customers want, how they want it, and how the enterprise can organize to best meet those needs, get paid for doing so, and make a profit. The purpose of this article is to understand the significance of business models and explore their connections with business strategy, innovation management, and economic theory. Ó 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Introduction Developments in the global economy have changed the traditional balance between customer and supplier. New communications and computing technology, and the establishment of reasonably open global trading regimes, mean that customers have more choices, variegated customer needs can find expression, and supply alternatives are more transparent. Businesses therefore need to be more customer-centric, especially since technology has evolved to allow the lower cost provision of information and customer solutions. These developments...
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...Emerging Strategies And Business Models In The UK Irene Yousept, Feng Li University of Newcastle upon Tyne Business School, United Kingdom Irene.Yousept@ncl.ac.uk, Feng.Li@nc,.ac.uk Abstract The Internet has facilitated the emergence of new strategies and business models in several industries. In the UK, significant changes are happening in supermarket retailing with the introduction of online shopping, especially in terms of channel development and coordination, business scope redefinition, the development of fulfilment centre model and core processes, new ways of customer value creation, and online partnerships. In fact the role of online supermarket itself has undergone some significant changes in the last few years. Based on recent empirical evidence gathered in the UK, this paper will illustrate current developments in the strategies and business models of online supermarket retailing. The main evidence has been collected through an online survey of 6 online supermarkets and in-depth case studies of two leading players. Some of the tendencies are comparable to what happened in retail banking with the introduction of Internet banking, but other tendencies are unique to the supermarket retailing industry. This is a rapidly evolving area and further studies are clearly needed. 1 Introduction The Internet has facilitated the emergence of new business models in several industries. Previous research has revealed that the integrated models of retail banking have been...
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...Long Range Planning 43 (2010) 172e194 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation David J. Teece Whenever a business enterprise is established, it either explicitly or implicitly employs a particular business model that describes the design or architecture of the value creation, delivery, and capture mechanisms it employs. The essence of a business model is in defining the manner by which the enterprise delivers value to customers, entices customers to pay for value, and converts those payments to profit. It thus reflects management’s hypothesis about what customers want, how they want it, and how the enterprise can organize to best meet those needs, get paid for doing so, and make a profit. The purpose of this article is to understand the significance of business models and explore their connections with business strategy, innovation management, and economic theory. Ó 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Introduction Developments in the global economy have changed the traditional balance between customer and supplier. New communications and computing technology, and the establishment of reasonably open global trading regimes, mean that customers have more choices, variegated customer needs can find expression, and supply alternatives are more transparent. Businesses therefore need to be more customer-centric, especially since technology has evolved to allow the lower cost provision of information and customer solutions. These...
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...Introduction Author Mark Johnson is chairman of Innosight, a strategic innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India, which he cofounded with Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. He has consulted to Global 1000 and start-up companies in a wide range of industries—including health care, aerospace/defense, enterprise IT, energy, automotive, and consumer packaged goods—and has advised Singapore’s government on innovation and entrepreneurship. Book The book is focused on business model innovation and introducing a simple framework for thinking about potential business model innovations and evaluating the positives and negatives of a potential business model. Then it continues to define the parameters of the ‘white space’, which is the uncharted territory for any organization. This can be either geographical, demographical or product distinctions. Mark W. Johnson understands that white space is difficult to define. Where white space may represent available opportunities outside of one company’s area, those same opportunities may represent the core business for another organization. In the case of a company considering entering a white space, there is the challenge of risk. For many organizations, the risk of failure is considered too great, and many potential new products and markets are missed as a result. The compromise position, taken by many enterprises, is to enter into related markets, adjacent to their...
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...Reinventing Your Business Model by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann In 2003, Apple introduced the iPod with the iTunes store, revolutionizing portable entertainment, creating a new market, and transforming the company. In just three years, the iPod/iTunes combination became a nearly $10 billion product, accounting for almost 50% of Apple’s revenue. Apple’s market capitalization catapulted from around $1 billion in early 2003 to over $150 billion by late 2007. This success story is well known; what’s less well known is that Apple was not the first to bring digital music players to market. A company called Diamond Multimedia introduced the Rio in 1998. Another firm, Best Data, introduced the Cabo 64 in 2000. Both products worked well and were portable and stylish. So why did the iPod, rather than the Rio or Cabo, succeed? Apple did something far smarter than take a good technology and wrap it in a snazzy design. It took a good technology and wrapped it in a great business model. Apple’s true innovation was to make downloading digital music easy and convenient. To do that, the company built a groundbreaking business model that combined hardware, software, and service. This approach worked like Gillette’s famous blades-and-razor model in reverse: Apple essentially gave away the “blades” (low-margin iTunes music) to lock in purchase of the “razor” (the high-margin iPod). That model defined value in a new way and provided game-changing convenience to...
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...analytical An analytical framework for evaluating e-commerce business models and strategies Chung-Shing Lee The author Chung-Shing Lee is Director of Electronic Commerce Resource Center and an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management in the School of Business at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, USA. Keywords Internet, Economy, Innovation, Strategy Abstract Electronic commerce or business is more than just another way to sustain or enhance existing business practices. Rather, e-commerce is a paradigm shift. It is a ``disruptive’’ innovation that is radically changing the traditional way of doing business. The industry is moving so fast because it operates under totally different principles and work rules in the digital economy. A general rule in e-commerce is that there is no simple prescription and almost no such thing as an established business or revenue model for companies even within the same industry. Under such conditions, an analytical framework is needed to assist e-commerce planners and strategic managers in assessing the critical success factors when formulating e-commerce business models and strategies. This research develops an analytical framework based on the theories of transaction costs and switching costs. Both demand-side and supply-side economies of scale and scope are also applied to the development of this framework. In addition, e-commerce revenue models and strategies are also discussed. Based on the analytical...
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...Chapter 1 / Foundations of Information Systems in Business ● 27 REAL WORLD CASE 2 lmost everybody has a theory about how to save the U.S. newspaper industry. The only consensus, it seems, is that it needs to change fundamentally or it could all but disappear. At The New York Times, tough times have elevated IT-enabled innovation to the top of the agenda. A research and development group, created in 2006, operates as a shared service across nearly two dozen newspapers, a radio station, and more than 50 Web sites. “Our role is to accelerate our entry onto new platforms by identifying opportunities, conceptualizing, and prototyping ideas,” explains Michael Zimbalist, the company’s vice president of R&D. Zimbalist’s staff of 12 includes experts in rapid prototyping, specialists in areas like mobile or cloud computing and data miners who probe Web site data for insight into what visitors do. They work within a common framework based on idea generation, development, and diffusion throughout the business. Recent projects included prototypes for new display ad concepts, as well as BlackBerry applications for Boston.com and the expert site About.com. The team’s work is intended to supplement and support innovation taking place within the business units. For example, the team is prototyping E-Ink, an emerging display technology; some business units can’t spare the resources to investigate it. At NYTimes.com, the design and product development group of Marc Frons, CTO of...
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...Long Range Planning 43 (2010) 172e194 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation David J. Teece Whenever a business enterprise is established, it either explicitly or implicitly employs a particular business model that describes the design or architecture of the value creation, delivery, and capture mechanisms it employs. The essence of a business model is in defining the manner by which the enterprise delivers value to customers, entices customers to pay for value, and converts those payments to profit. It thus reflects management’s hypothesis about what customers want, how they want it, and how the enterprise can organize to best meet those needs, get paid for doing so, and make a profit. The purpose of this article is to understand the significance of business models and explore their connections with business strategy, innovation management, and economic theory. Ó 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Introduction Developments in the global economy have changed the traditional balance between customer and supplier. New communications and computing technology, and the establishment of reasonably open global trading regimes, mean that customers have more choices, variegated customer needs can find expression, and supply alternatives are more transparent. Businesses therefore need to be more customer-centric, especially since technology has evolved to allow the lower cost provision of information and customer solutions. These...
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...From Processes to Promise: Ivanka Visnjic Business Models Research Lead, Cambridge Service Alliance Assistant Professor, ESADE Business School How complex service providers use business model innovation to deliver sustainable growth Andy Neely Director, Cambridge Service Alliance Founder members: Judge Business School The Cambridge Service Alliance The Cambridge Service Alliance is a unique global partnership between businesses and universities. It brings together the world’s leading firms and academics, all of whom are devoted to delivering today the tools, education and insights needed for the complex service solutions of tomorrow. About the Cambridge Service Alliance Founded in 2010 by BAE Systems, IBM and the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing and Judge Business School, the Cambridge Service Alliance brings together world-leading organisations with an interest in complex service systems to: • Conduct insightful, yet practical research to improve the design and deployment of high-performance complex service systems. • Create and develop industrially applicable tools and techniques that deliver competitive advantage. • Provide an unparalleled network of academics and industrialists that share experience, knowledge and insight in how better to design and deploy high performance complex service systems. • Develop and deliver public and member-only education programmes to raise the skill levels of organisations. Joining the Cambridge...
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...SHARING CORPS SHOULD COMPANIES build a new competitive advantage BY embracing the SHARING ECONOMY? ECOVALA - December 2013 1 Sharing corps: Should company build competitive advantage by embracing the sharing economy? Ecovala © 2013 This report was produced by the Ecovala in December 2013. If no other source is specified, the contents of this report are under a Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. You can find the full text of the license in this website. Ecovala Ecovala provides innovative solutions to private and public organisations to accelerate their transition towards sustainability. The organisation offers a wide range of services around sustainability and system innovation: from companies’ environmental assessment to sustainable strategic design, from new green services definition to effective implementation of CSR management. Based in Finland, the organisation is active throughout Europe, relying on an extensive network of like-minded organisations and sustainability experts. www.ecovala.eu Author Erwan Mouazan is director and founder of Ecovala. He develops and implements innovative sustainability solutions both at private and public level. Erwan owns a Master's degree in economics, with a specialization in international management. In the last 9 years, he has worked at international level in environmental NGOS and sustainable development / CSR consultancies. He is currently completing a master's...
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...selling of goods and services, but also servicing customers, collaborating with business partners, conducting e-learning and conducting electronic transactions within an organization. 2 E-Business EC can take several forms, depending on the degree of digitization of the Product (service) sold The process e.g. ordering, payment, fulfilment etc. The delivery method. 3 A product may be physical or digital, the process may be physical or digital and the delivery method may be physical or digital. In traditional commerce, all dimensions are physical. In pure EC, all dimensions are digital. All other dimensions are partial EC. 4 EC Organizations Purely physical organizations are referred to as brick and mortar (old economy organizations), whereas companies that are engaged in only EC are considered virtual or pure-play organizations. Clicks and mortar organizations are those that conduct some EC activities, usually as an additional marketing channel. 5 Classification of EC by the Nature of the Transactions and the Relationships Among Partners B2B B2C All participants in B2B EC are either businesses or other organizations. B2C EC includes retail transactions of products or services from businesses to individual shoppers. Also called e-tailing. In B2B2C EC, a business provides some product or service to a client business. The client maintains its own customers who may be its own employees, to whom...
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...Plenty. A continuing stream of information technology innovations is transforming the traditional business world. What makes the MIS field the most exciting area of study in schools of business is this continuous change in technology, management, and business processes. (Chapter 1 describes these changes in more detail.) Examples of transforming technologies include the emergence of cloud computing, the growth of a mobile digital business platform based on smartphones, netbook computers, and, not least, the use of social networks by managers to achieve business objectives. Most of these changes have occurred in the last few years. These innovations enable entrepreneurs and innovative traditional firms to create new products and services, develop new business models, and transform the day-to-day conduct of business. In the process, some old businesses, even entire industries, are being destroyed while new businesses are springing up. For instance, the emergence of online music stores—driven by millions of consumers who prefer iPods and MP3 players—has forever changed the older business model of distributing music on physical devices, such as records and CDs, and then selling them in retail stores. Say goodbye to your local music store! Streaming Hollywood movies from Netflix is transforming the old model of distributing films through theaters and then through DVD rentals at physical stores. Say goodbye to Blockbuster! The growth of cloud computing, and huge ...
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...BUSINESS MODEL GENERATION Yves Pigneur Patrick Van Der Pijl Alexander Osterwalder Alan Smith Tim Clark www.businessmodelgeneration.com, EUR 27,60 THE CORE TEAM a core team did the heavy lifting in authorship, design and production of this collaborative effort involving over 400 strategy practitioners from around the world. Lead authors Alexander Osterwalder, Ph.D, and Professor Yves Pigneur, Ph.D., Creative Director & Designer Alan Smith from The Movement, Producer Patrick Van der Pijl of Business Models Inc. and Editor Tim Clark of Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy. www.businessmodelgeneration.com 2 AGENDA 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. BUSINESS MODEL BUSINESS MODEL EXAMPLES MORE... BUSINESS MODEL REVENUE MODEL BUSINESS MODEL BUSINESS MODEL MISC. FRAMEWORK ENVIRONMENT MEASUREMENTS INNOVATION 3 1. BUSINESS MODEL 4 BUSINESS MODEL 5 BUSINESS MODEL A Business Model Of A Company Is A Simplified Representation Of Its Business Logic. 5 BUSINESS MODEL 5 BUSINESS MODEL BUSINESS MODEL “describes what a company offers its customers, how it reaches them and relates to them, through which resources, activities and partners it achieves this and finally, how it earns money.” Dr. Alexander Osterwalder 6 KP KA VP CR CS 2. C$ by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur (taken from the book „Business Model Generation“) BUSINESS MODELCH FRAMEWORK KR R$ 7 2. BUSINESS...
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...Abstract 1 – Strategic Planning vs. Strategy Innovation In business, it is essential to differentiate between strategic planning and strategy innovation. Many corporations have defined processes for carrying out strategic planning - which is basically studying historical data and forecasting anticipated outcomes for the future (Scocco, 2010). It involves creating a fit to the current business model, a process centered on the company aiming to exalt the processes already in place. This method has one big flaw, however, because it relies on the assumption that the future will mirror the past. Strategy innovation, conversely, creates new business models, as it is centered on the market aiming to find new ways of creating value through new processes or products. Overall strategic planning is a major analytical process while strategic innovation is a creative one, and as Henry Mintzberg said “…nobody in the history of the world has ever created a strategy through an analytical process” (Scocco, 2010). Strategic innovation is designed to succeed in dynamic markets but that does not mean strategic planning is an obsolete management tool. The two can and should co-exist; companies should start by carrying out strategic innovation in order to identify future business opportunities and trends in the market. Afterwards they transfer what they discovered into the analytical process, making sure the action plan will fit the company’s resources, processes and values (Scocco, 2010). According...
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