This article proposes a conceptual framework for analysing future business model innovation scenarios. It also introduces the special issue "The Future of Business Model Innovation: Core Themes and Pivotal Technologies." Drawing on existing knowledge, the article identifies two key dimensions...

Business regulation is the norms, standards, principles and rules, and their enforcement governs commerce. Firms need to be aware of the potential impacts of regulation on their business models, anticipate changes in the regulatory landscape, and adapt their business models accordingly. This...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how firms disclose the presentation and content of business model (BM) information in corporate reports to manage their legitimacy in response to European Directive 2014/95. Design/methodology/approach Legitimacy theory is used to identify disclosure...

Disclosure of information concerning strategy, business models, critical success factors, risk factors and value drivers in general has gained importance in recent years. Both policy makers and academics have argued that the demand for external communication of new types of value drivers is...

This paper provides in a chronological fashion an introduction to six frameworks that one can apply to describing, understanding and also potentially innovating business models. These six frameworks have been chosen carefully as they represent six very different perspectives on business models...

The notion put forth here is that if it is difficult for the company to conceptualize the business model, then it may be even more difficult for external parties to analyse and understand it. At present there exists basically no literature on the aspects of analyzing business models. However,...

A business model is a sustainable way of doing business. Here sustainability stresses the ambition to survive over time and create a successful, perhaps even profitable, entity in the long run. The reason for this apparent ambiguity around the concept of profitability is, of course, that...

Business models have been intimately connected with e-business since the rise of the Internet during the late 1990’s. Kodama (1999) and Hedman & Kalling 2003 provide early reviews of the business model concept as seen around the dot.com era and the rise of the e-business model, while a more...

The field of business models has, as is the case with all emerging fields of practice, slowly matured through the development of frameworks, models, concepts and ideas over the last 15 years. New concepts, theories and models typically transcend a series of maturity phases