scholarly journals EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 385-404
Author(s):  
Fonttamara Lima ◽  
Giuliano Rainatto ◽  
Norberto de Almeida Andrade ◽  
Fernando Rodrigues da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Agile Methods ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The objective of this paper is to verify if there is a link between start-ups that have characteristics of exponential organizations and if this growth has a connection with the digital transformation. It is a bibliographic research with a field research based on the theoretical framework in order to understand the influence of digital transformations on ExOs. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to investigate the relationship between ExOs and digital transformation, will be applied to founders and co-founders of six start ups of different segments and sizes, their answers analyzed qualitatively, based on the theories of exponential organizations, would have singularity and abundance. After the analysis it is concluded that of the companies studied, which have strong characteristics of exponential organizations, 100% of them use digital business models (software or platforms) and operate with the strong use of digital tools and agile methods.

scholarly journals Pathways to Developing Digital Capabilities within Entrepreneurial Initiatives in Pre-Digital Organizations

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Keller ◽  
Philipp Ollig ◽  
Patrick Rövekamp
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Capability Development ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Set Up

AbstractTo enable new digital business models, pre-digital organizations launch entrepreneurial initiatives. However, in developing the required digital capabilities, pre-digital organizations often face challenges as they are marked by the ways they have historically established their organizational identity. Research on how pre-digital organizations can develop digital capabilities remains scarce. This study draws on a single case study to illustrate potential pathways for the development of digital capabilities. Two key characteristics are identified: the source of digital capability development and the set-up of the actors involved. The authors synthesize four possible pathway manifestations, discuss the dynamic nature of pathway combinations, and suggest that managing a portfolio of pathways may be crucial for pre-digital organizations. Therefore, the study contributes to a better understanding of digital transformation in pre-digital organizations. Furthermore, it provides guidance for practitioners to reflect on when deciding which pathways to follow.

scholarly journals Social Perspectives in Digital Business Models of Railway Enterprises

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 6445
Author(s):  
Adam Jabłoński ◽  
Marek Jabłoński
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
Business Ecosystem ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Significant Process

The digital transformation of business models is a process which helps traditional business solutions reach new functionalities through innovative technologies. Digital transformation is now crucial to the development of the rail transport sector. The main rail market entities are railway undertakings, infrastructure managers, entities in charge of maintenance, or certification bodies. Digitalization creates new opportunities to shape the business ecosystem in the rail transport sector. The aim of the research is to identify and indicate key social perspectives related to the development of digital business models functioning in railway enterprises. Technological aspects and relational determinants related to the strong mutual cooperation required between railway undertakings and infrastructure managers have particular significance in this context. In this approach, the digitalization of processes is important. The approach also reveals a significant process of business model socialization, which is conceptualized and operationalized through the evolution of social factors based on digital transformation.

scholarly journals Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: the rapid turn toward digital business models

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotta Kronblad ◽  
Johanna Envall Pregmark
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Business Models

Purpose The effects of the spread of COVID-19 across the world are devastating, both from a health and an economic perspective. However, we also see encouraging examples of collaborative and innovative initiatives, in society and in organizations. The purpose of this paper is to focus on initiatives related to digital business model innovation. The authors explore how organizational characteristics provide a variety of opportunities for digital responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss the potential consequences for the speed of digital transformation in organizations and society. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors analyze how organizations attempt to mitigate the negative effects of fighting COVID-19 using digital business model responses. The authors draw on a qualitative study where they have collected data from the retail and service industries. They have analyzed the data in relation to theory to better understand this ongoing phenomenon. Findings The authors have identified four categories of organizations (crisispreneurs, accelerators, endurers and thrivers). Each category faces different challenges and shows a different intensity in their digital transformation. The authors propose that the rapid turn toward digital business models will have enduring effects, as organizations have gained transformational capabilities that will remain, and that the digital trajectory has, as a result, changed forever. Originality/value The findings in this paper point toward new challenges for leaders and policymakers in terms of how to support initiatives and meet the needs of different categories of organizations while simultaneously being conscious of the potential societal effects of this rapid digital shift. The authors hope that this paper can be of value for managing this shock and learning how to adapt for the future taking certain aspects of current business models as the departure point.

scholarly journals The Impact of Drug Trafficking on Informal Security Actors in Kenya

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Schuberth
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Drug Trafficking Organizations ◽  
Drug Traffickers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Two Sides

The Kenyan state is currently under pressure from two sides: First, numerous non-state armed groups have taken over the provision of security in areas where the state is practically absent. Second, drug-trafficking organizations are gaining ground as the country is increasingly being used as a major transit hub for narcotics. This article investigates the relationship between drug trafficking and informal security provision in Kenya and draws analogies from comparable experiences in Latin America and West Africa. Field research in Kenya has demonstrated that profit-oriented, informal security actors in Mombasa work for drug lords, while their counterparts in Nairobi are more likely to be hired by politicians. Moreover, faith-based vigilante groups in both cities appear to be less susceptible to external manipulation by drug traffickers. The article concludes by considering the potential consequences of an expansion of the drug trade in Kenya.

scholarly journals Digital Transformation and Disruption of the Health Care Sector: Internet-Based Observational Study (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Herrmann ◽  
Philip Boehme ◽  
Thomas Mondritzki ◽  
Jan P Ehlers ◽  
Stylianos Kavadias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Health Care Sector ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Start Ups

BACKGROUND Digital innovation, introduced across many industries, is a strong force of transformation. Some industries have seen faster transformation, whereas the health care sector only recently came into focus. A context where digital corporations move into health care, payers strive to keep rising costs at bay, and longer-living patients desire continuously improved quality of care points to a digital and value-based transformation with drastic implications for the health care sector. OBJECTIVE We tried to operationalize the discussion within the health care sector around digital and disruptive innovation to identify what type of technological enablers, business models, and value networks seem to be emerging from different groups of innovators with respect to their digital transformational efforts. METHODS From the Forbes 2000 and CBinsights databases, we identified 100 leading technology, life science, and start-up companies active in the health care sector. Further analysis identified projects from these companies within a digital context that were subsequently evaluated using the following criteria: delivery of patient value, presence of a comprehensive and distinctive underlying business model, solutions provided, and customer needs addressed. RESULTS Our methodological approach recorded more than 400 projects and collaborations. We identified patterns that show established corporations rely more on incremental innovation that supports their current business models, while start-ups engage their flexibility to explore new market segments with notable transformations of established business models. Thereby, start-ups offer higher promises of disruptive innovation. Additionally, start-ups offer more diversified value propositions addressing broader areas of the health care sector. CONCLUSIONS Digital transformation is an opportunity to accelerate health care performance by lowering cost and improving quality of care. At an economic scale, business models can be strengthened and disruptive innovation models enabled. Corporations should look for collaborations with start-up companies to keep investment costs at bay and off the balance sheet. At the same time, the regulatory knowledge of established corporations might help start-ups to kick off digital disruption in the health care sector.

scholarly journals Blessing or curse: Does digitalization foster business model innovation? Evidence from a quantitative empirical study

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Patrick Ulrich ◽  
Alexandra Fibitz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Business World ◽  
Digital Strategy ◽  
The Relationship

This study analyses whether and how digital transformation affects business models. Digitalization influences businesses regardless of size, industry, and structure. Thus, companies are often forced to rethink their value architecture in order to remain competitive and not vanish from the business world. Therefore, deepening the understanding of the relationship between digitalization and business models is of utmost importance for both practice and academia. We examine the interdependencies of the utilization of digital technologies and the execution of a digital strategy on business model innovation, and the extent to which the digitalization level is influencing this relation. Furthermore, we depict the results from a quantitative study among a sample of 166 German companies. The results indicate that business model innovation is positively influenced by a higher pursuit of digital technologies and the adoption of certain digital strategies. The digitalization cluster further stresses the importance of digital actions for the companies’ sustainability.

Reflection of Digital Transformation on Corporate Sustainability and a Theoratical Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-258
Author(s):  
Cemal Zehir ◽  
Burcu Özgül
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Process Automation ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Industrial Manufacture ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Frame

With its high process automation and digitalization, Industry 4.0 provides new opportunities to actualize more flexible, higher quality, speedy, cheap, and productive manufacturing and services. Containing numerous technology and paradigms, Industry 4.0 is expected to transform the industrial manufacture and society by aiming at economic, social, and environmental gains. The facts that natural resources are running out, lifecycle of the world is diminishing, and society has increasing anxiety on this situation. These have been the propulsive power for the development of Industry 4.0. By means of the technology and innovations that Industry 4.0 brings along, it is clear that it could also contribute to the recent popular and emphasized concept:sustainability. In this chapter, after giving information about the paradigms related with Industry 4.0, the theoretical frame of corporate sustainability and the effect of digital transformation on corporate sustainability have been evaluated. And then, constructing sustainable digital business models and focusing on value proposal have been discussed.

scholarly journals Money for Nothing and Content for Free?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian-Mathias Wellbrock ◽  
Christopher Buschow
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Current State ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Paid Content ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Broad Overview

How can journalism be financed sustainably? This remains the key issue for media companies and news start-ups when they develop and establish digital business models. The authors of this book provide a broad overview of the current state of knowledge on paid content, platforms and the willingness to pay in the field of journalism, and present innovative perspectives on novel platform models as well as on the motives and needs of users of digital journalistic content. Based on empirical research, the book explores recommendations for the user-centred development of paid content as well as new perspectives on the willingness to pay in the field of digital journalism, both of which are relevant for academia and media practice.

scholarly journals Towards Digital Transformation with 5G Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataša Banović–Ćurguz ◽  
Dijana Ilišević ◽  
Djuradj Budimir
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Machine Type Communications ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Basic Asset

This paper presents a short review of recent research activities on 5G as the next generation of wireless technology, the requirements they are facing, user scenarios, functionalities, and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) as a measure of assessing the performances of these systems. 5G technology also known as International Mobile Telecommunications 2020, (IMT-2020) will dramatically increase the capabilities of the Internet of Things, Vehicle-to-everything and will pave the way for massive machine-type communications. While it is not yet define how the ultimate 5G design will be, it is possible to identify the most important services, functionality and KPIs that will provide satisfactory solutions to innovative digital business models after 2020. It is expected that 5G standards be in focus of Regulation Agencies, mainly through socio-economic analysis. In emerging markets, socio-economic dimensions of wireless connectivity must be considered carefully since data will be basic asset in digital age. This paper also highlights the importance of changes in mindset of regulation framework in telecommunications sector. Strong understanding of digital transformation is crucial in order to stay competitive in dynamic changes in the future.

An old friend is better than two new ones? Approaches to market research in the context of digital transformation for the antitrust laws enforcement

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Shastitko ◽  
O. A. Markova
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Market Definition ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Type Ii Errors

Digital transformation has led to changes in business models of traditional players in the existing markets. What is more, new entrants and new markets appeared, in particular platforms and multisided markets. The emergence and rapid development of platforms are caused primarily by the existence of so called indirect network externalities. Regarding to this, a question arises of whether the existing instruments of competition law enforcement and market analysis are still relevant when analyzing markets with digital platforms? This paper aims at discussing advantages and disadvantages of using various tools to define markets with platforms. In particular, we define the features of the SSNIP test when being applyed to markets with platforms. Furthermore, we analyze adjustment in tests for platform market definition in terms of possible type I and type II errors. All in all, it turns out that to reduce the likelihood of type I and type II errors while applying market definition technique to markets with platforms one should consider the type of platform analyzed: transaction platforms without pass-through and non-transaction matching platforms should be tackled as players in a multisided market, whereas non-transaction platforms should be analyzed as players in several interrelated markets. However, if the platform is allowed to adjust prices, there emerges additional challenge that the regulator and companies may manipulate the results of SSNIP test by applying different models of competition.

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