Managing the Value Appropriation Dilemma in Business Model Innovation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliya Snihur ◽  
Christoph Zott ◽  
Raphael (Raffi) Amit
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Model Design ◽  
Value Appropriation ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Strategic Design ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Managers and designers of innovative business models that are enabled by emerging technologies need to build legitimacy with ecosystem participants. Yet increasing legitimacy within the ecosystem raises competitors’ incentives to imitate the business model innovators, thereby adversely affecting the innovators’ ability to appropriate value. We refer to this trade-off as the appropriation dilemma. We draw on institutional and resource-based perspectives to develop propositions about mitigating the appropriation dilemma and provide illustrations with a range of cases. Our theory development contributes to the technology management and business model innovation literatures by delineating how business model innovators can create value for all stakeholders and at the same time appropriate value through strategic business model design, a task that is particularly salient in the context of emerging technologies. We also strengthen the theoretical foundations of business model innovation research by grounding propositions about the strategic design of business models in resource-based theory and institutional theory.

Business model design and performance in nascent markets

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 927-947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Rask ◽  
Franziska Günzel-Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Model Design ◽  
Model Choice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Model Design ◽  
And Performance

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nascent market settings from a business model innovation perspective with the research questions: How do incumbents and start-ups make sense of an emerging technology through business model design in a nascent market setting, and how does business model choice influence firm performance? Design/methodology/approach The authors have tracked the development of four case companies in the nascent electric vehicle market from 2009 to 2018 and have conducted interviews and analyzed the archival data. Findings The authors propose a typology of business model choices and performance where the four types of business models distinguish themselves by how the companies innovate or imitate the value proposition of the current industry as well as how they innovate or imitate the business model archetype. In accordance with these different business model choices, the actors express different logics behind their new to the product market space business model choice. These logics represent different understandings of technology potential, customer needs as well as potential for value capture and contribute to and limit the translation of emerging technologies into dominant designs in diverse ways. Originality/value The business model is conceived as a focusing device that can be used to identify market applications for emerging technologies. As new disruptive technologies often require a new to the product market space business model, literature has in recent years put a premium on business model innovation. However, the linkages between emergent technologies and the choice of a novel business model are under investigated especially in relation to how business model choice affects business performance in nascent market settings. This paper aims at filling this gap.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial lean thinking for sustainable business modeling: a workshop design for incumbent firms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Schwarz ◽  
P. Gregori ◽  
I. Krajger ◽  
M. A. Wdowiak
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Opportunity Identification ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Lean Thinking ◽  
Business Modeling ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact

AbstractIn times of increasing concerns and extensive political debates about social and environmental problems, incumbent firms are obliged to reduce their negative environmental impact by implementing sustainable business model innovation. Yet, realizing more sustainable business model variants entails several complexities and associated challenges that need to be overcome. To support this task, this article takes an entrepreneurship perspective on sustainable business model innovation and combines literature of business models and entrepreneurial lean thinking (ELT). In doing so, it derives a workshop design grounded in contemporary theory with state-of-the-art tools and methods. The workshop is framed as a stage-gate process facilitating the notions of ELT with iterative cycles of ‘create, test, and improve’ and spans the phases of opportunity identification, opportunity evaluation, opportunity development through sustainable business model design, and decision of opportunity exploitation. The article shows that ELT is an appropriate yet underutilized approach for sustainable business modeling. Further, it discusses how the workshop supports opportunities and mitigate pitfalls of ELT for sustainable business modeling. As such, the findings have theoretical implications for the intersection of sustainability and lean approaches in innovation research as well as implications for practitioners by providing a comprehensive framework to support sustainable business model innovation.

scholarly journals Track 4.f Introduction: Strategic Design of Sustainable Business Models

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian BALDASSARRE ◽  
Giulia CALABRETTA ◽  
Nancy BOCKEN ◽  
Jan-Carel DIEHL ◽  
Duygu KESKIN
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Strategic Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Design For Sustainability

Concerns about the societal and environmental impact of how companies operate have generated increasing interest in more sustainable ways of doing business (Porter & Kramer, 2011). Research and practice from the past decade show that a Sustainable Business Model Innovation lens is suitable to embed sustainability into firms’ objectives and operations (Bocken et al., 2014; Schaltegger, Lüdeke-Freund, & Hansen, 2012). Consequently, Sustainable Business Model Innovation has been emerging rapidly as a research field (Lüdeke-Freund & Dembek, 2017). Recent developments in this field build upon seminal work on Design for Sustainability from the past two decades to establish a connection with Strategic Design (Baldassarre et al., 2019; Geissdoerfer et al., 2016; Manzini, 1999; Tukker, 2004). Strategic Design is a research stream that studies how to leverage the discipline of Design in the context of Strategy and Innovation Management (Calabretta et al., 2016; Karpen, Gemser, & Calabretta, 2017). More specifically, it focuses on the application of design practices, principles and methods to the formulation and implementation of innovation strategies that benefit people and organizations alike (Calabretta et al., 2016). The connection between Sustainable Business Model Innovation and Strategic Design is mainly supported by the argument that the strategic and experimental nature of design enables the integration of stakeholders’ objectives including sustainability concerns, while also providing the process dimension needed to move away from theory towards concrete practice and tangible impact (Baldassarre et al., 2017; Bocken, Schuit, & Kraaijenhagen, 2018). However, research on the role and contribution of Strategic Design to Sustainable Business Modeling is still in its infancy. Consequently, within this track of the 2019 edition of the Academy for Design Innovation Management Conference, we collected four research contributions at the intersection between Strategic Design and Sustainable Business Model Innovation. These contributions are summarized in the paragraphs below, followed by a reflection on all of them and potential directions for future research.

scholarly journals Management and Organization Review Special Issue ‘Business Model Innovation in Transforming Economies’

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-462
Author(s):  
Henk Volberda ◽  
Oli Mihalache ◽  
Carl Fey ◽  
Arie Y. Lewin
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Start Up ◽  
New Business ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
New Business Models

Transforming economies such as the BRIC countries – Ex-Soviet Republics, or Eastern European countries – share national aspirations of becoming innovation economies. These aspirations have stimulated a push for entrepreneurship and experimentation with new ways of doing things. This has created a fascinating context for research on business model innovation, relating to the way incumbent firms adapt their business models or come up with entirely new models. Similarly, new business models may be originated by start-up companies that often are challenging and leapfrogging the ‘tired’ old business models or simply invent new ones. However, research that specifically explores indigenous business model innovation in the context of these transforming economies is still in its early stages. The MOR special issue on ‘Business Model Innovation in Transforming Economies’ aims to address this gap by soliciting research uncovering successful new business models that is indigenous to these economies, as they transition to becoming innovation economies themselves and contribute to strategy and management theory development.

scholarly journals Management and Organization Review Special Issue ‘Business Model Innovation in Transforming Economies’

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-924
Author(s):  
Henk Volberda ◽  
Oli Mihalache ◽  
Carl Fey ◽  
Arie Y. Lewin
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Start Up ◽  
New Business ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
New Business Models

Transforming economies such as the BRIC countries – Ex-Soviet Republics, or Eastern European countries – share national aspirations of becoming innovation economies. These aspirations have stimulated a push for entrepreneurship and experimentation with new ways of doing things. This has created a fascinating context for research on business model innovation, relating to the way incumbent firms adapt their business models or come up with entirely new models. Similarly, new business models may be originated by start-up companies that often are challenging and leapfrogging the ‘tired’ old business models or simply invent new ones. However, research that specifically explores indigenous business model innovation in the context of these transforming economies is still in its early stages. The MOR special issue on ‘Business Model Innovation in Transforming Economies’ aims to address this gap by soliciting research uncovering successful new business models that is indigenous to these economies, as they transition to becoming innovation economies themselves and contribute to strategy and management theory development.

scholarly journals Management and Organization Review Special Issue ‘Business Model Innovation in Transforming Economies’

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 689-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Volberda ◽  
Oli Mihalache ◽  
Carl Fey ◽  
Arie Y. Lewin
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Start Up ◽  
New Business ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
New Business Models

Transforming economies such as the BRIC countries – Ex-Soviet Republics, or Eastern European countries – share national aspirations of becoming innovation economies. These aspirations have stimulated a push for entrepreneurship and experimentation with new ways of doing things. This has created a fascinating context for research on business model innovation, relating to the way incumbent firms adapt their business models or come up with entirely new models. Similarly, new business models may be originated by start-up companies that often are challenging and leapfrogging the ‘tired’ old business models or simply invent new ones. However, research that specifically explores indigenous business model innovation in the context of these transforming economies is still in its early stages. The MOR special issue on ‘Business Model Innovation in Transforming Economies’ aims to address this gap by soliciting research uncovering successful new business models that is indigenous to these economies, as they transition to becoming innovation economies themselves and contribute to strategy and management theory development.

scholarly journals Secondary Business Model Innovation in Emerging Economies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Sonia Mehrotra ◽  
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
China And India ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
Quick Service

ABSTRACT We study two quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains based on regional ethnic foods that were launched in China and India. The products that these QSR ventures offered had hitherto been sold by fragmented street vendors who typically operated single outlets. Inspired by the successful business models of international QSR brands, these entrepreneurs developed business models to popularize their chosen regional ethnic foods in multiple new regions and grew their organizations to 1,400 and 300 outlets in China and India, respectively. We build on the recently coined concept of ‘secondary’ business model innovation (SBMI), which is based on inter-organizational learning, break down its constituents into creative and imitative, specify the mechanisms through which it is achieved, and propose that it is a specific case of the more general construct of creative imitation.

scholarly journals Equipment Maintenance Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the Digitalization Context: Connotation, Types, and Measuring

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juhong Chen ◽  
Ruijun Zhang ◽  
Di Wu
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Equipment Maintenance ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Profit Center ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises

The equipment maintenance services have become a new profit center and an important way to gain sustainable competitive advantage for manufacturing enterprises. The business model is an important tool for manufacturing enterprises to derive economic benefits from sustainable competitive advantage in the context of digitalization technologies, such as IoT, big data, and cloud computing. At present, the concept of equipment maintenance business model innovation is still vague, and it is rare to report on the innovation behaviors and types of equipment maintenance business models adopted by manufacturing enterprises. Based on literature analysis of equipment maintenance services and business model innovation, following business model gestalt theory, the concept of equipment maintenance business model innovation is analyzed at the business-level, the types are divided into novel and efficient following value sources—“innovation and efficiency”. The initial scale is developed through literature investigation, semi-structured interviews and expert reviews, and tested by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis by using the data of two independent large-sample questionnaires. The results indicate that the behavior and types of equipment maintenance business model innovation can be described by two types and 19 items.

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