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Special Issue: Business Model Innovation and Transformation
As the term “Business Model” fundamentally brings together different perspectives from wide-ranging disciplines and is not limited to a single research construct, researchers currently progress towards discovering and grasping its complexity. Resulting from these research attempts, particularly during the past decade, business model innovation has become one of the most prominent research fields in the business model context. Moreover, its significance is also emphasised by corresponding research streams, such as business model transformation.
In turbulent business environments, business model innovation and transformation are discussed by researchers as prerequisites for long-term survival and for sustaining a company’s competitive edge (Chesbrough 2007, 2010; Amit and Zott 2012). Against this background, the scientific conference on “Business Model Innovation and Transformation” of the Erich-Gutenberg-Arbeitsgemeinschaft deliberately chose and carefully discussed a number of related topics during a two-day session in September 2014 in Nuremberg. The topics covered aspects ranging from triggers for business model transformation to innovation types and design patterns to the development of formative indexes for business model innovation. By providing a forum for ideas and inspiring discussions among all participants, the 2014 conference represents the cornerstone for the present publication. Participating researchers were invited to submit full papers to this special issue of the Journal of Business Economics. Out of the received papers, four have been accepted to be part of this special issue. Contributing to the evolution of the research fields dedicated to studying business models, this special issue brings together both conceptual and empirical studies that provide researchers with new perspectives and offer managers hands-on guidelines for the further strategic positioning of their firms.
Editors
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Günter Fandel
Center for Production Economics and Decision Support, FernUniversität in Hagen, Universitätsstr. 41, 58084 Hagen, Germany
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Kai-Ingo Voigt
Chair of Industrial Management, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany
