Hasil untuk "Business"

A. Joyce, Raymond L. Paquin

B. Wirtz, Adriano Pistoia, S. Ullrich et al.

Naveen Donthu, Satish Kumar, Debidutta Pattnaik

Abstract Journal of Business Research (JBR) is a journal of international repute that publishes original, peer-reviewed, and empirical research in business and management. Key business decisions, processes, and activities within real business settings frequently feature in JBR articles. The journal reached its 45th year of publishing in 2017. Using bibliometric techniques, we analyze the journal’s impact, its prominent topics, and its most prolific authors, including their affiliated institutions and countries. Using network analysis in VOSviewer software, we group JBR publications into six clusters. Through Gephi software, the findings depict the co-authorship and bibliographic couplings of authors and their affiliated institutions and countries, co-citations of journals, and co-occurrence of author-specified keywords.

Christine Legner, Torsten Eymann, T. Hess et al.

Birte Freudenreich, Florian Lüdeke‐Freund, S. Schaltegger

Thomas Ritter, Carsten L. Pedersen

Abstract While the use of data in business-to-business marketing is not a new phenomenon, the digitization and digitalization of business-to-business firms' business models have recently attracted a great deal of attention. With the aim of creating an overview and consolidating this stream of research, the present paper offers a brief historical overview of research on digitization and digitalization in business-to-business markets – concluding that this discussion has a long tradition and, thus, is not a new phenomenon. We develop a definition of digitization capability as a basis for discussing how a firm's digitization capability interacts with its business model to allow for data-enabled growth, i.e. its digitalization, and we highlight promising avenues for future research.

A. Ghezzi, A. Cavallo

Abstract Digital startups in the early stages of their development frequently undergo innovation to their value architecture and Business Model. A set of pragmatic methods drawing on lean and agile principles has recently been proposed to support digital entrepreneurs facing Business Model Innovation (BMI), known as Lean Startup Approaches (LSAs). However, the theoretical and practical relationship between BMI and LSAs in dynamic digital environments has seldom been investigated. To fill this gap, our study draws on an exploratory multiple-case study based on three digital multisided platform startups to craft a unified framework that can disclose the relationship between BMI, LSAs and Agile Development (AD), within the context of Strategic Agility. Our findings, which emerge from the unified framework, show that LSAs can be employed as agile methods to enable Business Model Innovation in Digital Entrepreneurship. These findings are then organized around a set of propositions, with the aim of developing a research agenda directed towards integrating BMI, LSAs and AD processes and methods.

V. Parida, D. Sjödin, W. Reim

Digitalization is revolutionizing the way business is conducted within industrial value chains through the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, intensive data exchange and predictive analytics. However, technological application on its own is not enough; profiting from digitalization requires business model innovation such as making the transition to advanced service business models. Yet, many research gaps remain in analyzing how industrial companies can leverage digitalization to transform their business models to achieve sustainability benefits. Specifically, challenges related to value creation, value delivery, and value capture components of business model innovation need further understanding as well as how alignment of these components drive sustainable industry initiatives. Thus, this special issue editorial attempts to take stock of the emerging research field through a literature review and providing a synthesis of special issue contributions. In doing so, we contribute by developing a framework that communicates and sets the direction for future research by linking digitalization, business model innovation, and sustainability in industrial settings.

G. Hult, R. Hurley, G. Knight

Jeremy Greenwood, Z. Hercowitz, Gregory W. Huffman

Mnk Saunders, P. Lewis, A. Thornhill

W. Zikmund

S. Lam, Venkatesh Shankar, M. Erramilli et al.

L. Yeomans

Vida J. Morkunas, Jeannette Paschen, E. Boon

Abstract Much of the attention surrounding blockchain today is focused on financial services, with very little discussion about nonfinancial services firms and how blockchain technology may affect organizations, their business models, and how they create and deliver value. In addition, some confusion remains between the blockchain (with definite article) and blockchain (no article), distributed ledger technologies, and their applications. Our article offers a primer on blockchain technology aimed at general managers and executives. The key contributions of this article lie in providing an explanation of blockchain, including how a blockchain transaction works and a clarification of terms, and outlining different types of blockchain technologies. We also discuss how different types of blockchain impact business models. Building on the well-established business model framework by Osterwalder and Pigneur, we outline the effect that blockchain technologies can have on each element of the business model, along with illustrations from firms developing blockchain technology.

M. Dumas, M. Rosa, J. Mendling et al.

R. Fairlie

Abstract Social‐distancing restrictions and health‐ and economic‐driven demand shifts from COVID‐19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using nationally representative data from the April 2020 Current Population Survey—the first month fully capturing early effects. The number of active business owners in the United States plummeted by 3.3 million or 22% over the crucial 2‐month window from February to April 2020. The drop in active business owners was the largest on record, and losses to business activity were felt across nearly all industries. African‐American businesses were hit especially hard experiencing a 41% drop in business activity. Latinx business owner activity fell by 32%, and Asian business owner activity dropped by 26%. Simulations indicate that industry compositions partly placed these groups at a higher risk of business activity losses. Immigrant business owners experienced substantial losses in business activity of 36%. Female business owners were also disproportionately affected (25% drop in business activity). Continuing the analysis in May and June, the number of active business owners remained low—down by 15% and 8%, respectively. The continued losses in May and June, and partial rebounds from April were felt across all demographic groups and most industries. These findings of early‐stage losses to small business activity have important implications for policy, income losses, and future economic inequality.

Stefano Bresciani, K. Huarng, A. Malhotra et al.

Digital transformation has affected people, businesses and systems greatly in recent years (Del Giudice et al., 2020; Galindo-Martín, Castaño-Martínez, & Méndez-Picazo, 2019; Huarng, Yu, & Lai, 2015). This revolution is changing the way companies run businesses, and develop relationships within and across ecosystems (e.g. with consumers, suppliers, universities), posing new managerial opportunities and challenges (Bresciani, Ferraris, & Del Giudice, 2018; Verma, Gustafsson, Kristensson, & Witell, 2012). It is now evident that innovative companies (such as Uber, Airbnb and Spotify) have revolutionised industries, such as transport, accommodation and music, through innovative business models that leverage advanced technologies. Digital transformation is not limited to particularly innovative businesses, digital start-ups and high-tech giants, however, but is rather a process that embraces companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse industries (Ferraris, Mazzoleni, Devalle, & Couturier, 2019; Warner & Wäger, 2019). On the one hand, the literature has emphasised the various technological tools and paradigms that are revolutionising the way companies do business, such as big data, artificial intelligence, 4.0 machines, 3d printers and social media networks (e.g. Gunawan & Huarng, 2015; Rothberg & Erickson, 2017; Swani, Milne, Brown, Assaf, & Donthu, 2017). On the other hand, a stream of studies has tried to explore the impact of digital transformation on different business areas (Erevelles, Fukawa, & Swayne, 2016), business models (Alberti-Alhtaybat, Al-Htaybat, & Hutaibat, 2019; Loebbecke & Picot, 2015), business performances (Ferraris et al., 2019; Ferreira, Fernandes, & Ferreira, 2019) and required capabilities (Muninger, Hammedi, & Mahr, 2019; Warner & Wäger, 2019). For example, Erevelles et al. (2016) explored the impact of big data on various marketing activities. Ghezzi and Cavallo (2020) recently proposed a framework describing the relationship between business model innovation, lean start-up approaches and agile development in the context of digital entrepreneurship. Ferraris et al. (2019) showed that firms which developed greater big data analytics capabilities increased their performance, and that knowledge management capability plays a significant and positive moderator role. The interplay between information technology systems and knowledge management processes and tools can therefore speed up the digitalisation journey (Del Giudice & Della Peruta, 2016; Scuotto, Santoro, Bresciani, & Del Giudice, 2017). Muninger et al. (2019) explored the specific organisational capabilities that allow firms to gain advantages from social media through the innovation process. Despite this, we still know very little about how business can implement digital innovative strategies for growth and scale quickly and efficiently. 2. Statistics of the submissions

K. Meyer, Jiatao Li, K. Brouthers et al.

Digital technologies are changing how businesses strategize and organize internationally. They not only enable cost reduction in businesses crossing national boundaries but also enable novel types of products and business models. Yet, barriers to cross-border businesses persist or even re-emerge, such that the study of international business remains important in the digital age, but may have to shift focus. We argue that businesses operating internationally develop digital business strategies that are interdependent with their internationalization strategies. In doing so, they have to account for differences across national contexts including informal institutions, formal institutions, and resource endowments. We offer a conceptual framework linking external and internal antecedents to digital business and internationalization strategies. We focus in particular on three digital strategies: owning digital platforms, participating in digital platforms, and transforming traditional businesses for the digital world. On this basis, we discuss the contributions of the papers in this special issue and conclude by outlining an agenda for future research.

K. Meyer, T. Fang, A. Panibratov et al.

Sanctions are a tool used by political actors to induce foreign countries, firms or individuals to alter their behavior. As nonmilitary coercive measure, they have the potential to disrupt the international business environment, often on short notice, and change the rules of the game. Synthesizing the available evidence on the economic and political impacts of sanctions, we explore how sanctions disrupt the institutional framework for international business and how firms respond to sanctions. Based on a review of available scholarly evidence, we discuss how theories of international business, such as institution-based view, resource-and knowledge-based view, resource dependency theory, and behavioral theories of the firm, can contribute to explaining the impact of sanctions. At the same time, we discuss how sanctions, as politically motivated disruptions, challenge some assumptions underlying these theories. Going forward, a research agenda on sanctions is likely to help firms and governments to strategize in a geopolitically sensitive world.