The business model concept, although a relatively new topic for research, has garnered growing attention over the past decade. Whilst it has been robustly defined, the concept has so far attracted very little substantive research. In the context of the wide-spread digitization of businesses and...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is said to become an important cornerstone of the Internet of Services. However, while some market research and IT provider firms fervently support this point of view, others already conjure up the failure of this on-demand sourcing option. Oftentimes based on weak...

Grundlagen -- Will SaaS and Cloud Computing become a new Industry Platform? -- Software-as-a-Service as Disruptive Innovation in the Enterprise Application Market -- Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen des „Software as a Service“-Konzepts -- Marktsicht -- SaaS: A Love-Hate Relationship for...

The value added created by a firm is a widely used figure. Major elements of a firm’s strategy and business model deal with how the firm creates value and brings it to the customer. This paper focuses on a particular measure which has been broadly applied to measure the degree of vertical...