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Business Model Innovation in the Era of the Internet of Things

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This chapter provides an overview of the foundations of the underlying theoretical concepts of business model innovation, digitalisation and IoT understanding and concludes by laying out a synthesized.

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Tesch, J.F. (2019). Theoretical Background. In: Tesch, J. (eds) Business Model Innovation in the Era of the Internet of Things. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98723-1_2

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