The emergent business model literature, revolving mainly around the mechanisms through which new business models create and deliver value, has left the value capture challenge under-explored. This paper examines how an incumbent firm profits from business model innovation through the study of...

This paper investigates whether acquisitions involving public high technology firms are best understood in terms of acquirers taking over firms with ‘superior' innovation performance to access their assets, or acquiring firms with ‘inferior' innovation performance to turn them around....