Index

Frederick Betz (Portland State University, USA)

Strategic Business Models: Idealism and Realism in Strategy

ISBN: 978-1-78756-710-8, eISBN: 978-1-78756-709-2

Publication date: 16 November 2018

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Betz, F. (2018), "Index", Strategic Business Models: Idealism and Realism in Strategy, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 197-204. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-709-220181012

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INDEX

Action theory
, 112

Agricultural production
, 117

Alpha Engine
, 75

Altos system
, 172

Amazon
, 4–7, 13

first strategic business model
, 16–17

first strategic model (New book retail)
, 13–16

second strategic business model (Marketplace)
, 17–19

strategic business model as eBook publisher/retailer
, 20

strategic factor of “sales”
, 20–22

third strategic business model (eBook)
, 19–20

American International Group (AIG)
, 129, 131–132, 155

American semiconductor memory chip firms
, 55

American Societal Systems (1929–1933)
, 113

Arbitrage
, 31–33

Arbitrage strategic business model
, 34

ARPANET
, 14

Asset market
, 107

AT&T Bell Laboratory
, 43–45, 181

Atoms
, 44

Authority
, 30, 110–111

Back-office
, 36

Bagehot principle
, 141

“Bank runs”
, 96–97

timing
, 110

Bank salaries from loan activity and from trading
, 37

Banking
, (see also Casino banking), 28

crisis
, 129

liquidity
, 27

Bankruptcy
, 106

contagion
, 140

Bareen, Cooper, Schieffer theory (BCS theory)
, 45

Barings Bank
, (see also Commercial banks), 25–26

Baring’s Rogue trader
, 35–37

collapse of
, 28–33

strategic business model of banks
, 26–28

strategic model of merchant (commercial) bank
, 27

Barings Securities
, 29–31, 36

Bear Sterns collapses
, 126–131

Bear Sterns Hedge Funds
, 134

Berkshire Hathaway
, 83, 84–85

strategic business model
, 85–86

Bezos, Jeff (founder of Amazon)
, 13, 17, 19

“Big-picture”
, 165

“Brick and mortar” retailer
, 14

Business “downsizing”
, 116

Business environment(s)
, 9–11, 101

bank panics
, 120–121

economic theory
, 103–107

of Intel
, 54

societal models
, 109–116

US Great Depression
, 101–103, 107–109, 116–120

Business factor of sales for Amazon
, 21

Business failures
, 116

Business model
, 3, 83

of futures trading in agriculture
, 32

Business organizations
, 1

“Buy-out”
, 97

Capacitors
, 48

Capital
, (see also Strategic capital), 1–2, 25, 40, 65, 123

in Amazon
, 6–7, 16–18

asset
, 105, 124, 134

in Barings Bank
, 27

ideas in concept of
, 40

in Intel
, 52

investment banking
, 123, 124

from source of savers
, 126

strategic bank-loan model
, 41

structures
, 91–93

in Wells Fargo
, 7–8

in Whole Foods
, 6–7

Capitalism
, 106

Captured corporation
, 97

Cash
, (see also Credit)

market
, 31

purchase
, 34

Cash-purchased asset
, 34

Cash-purchases-of-the-asset-itself
, 31

Casino banking
, (see also Banking), 149

financial derivatives as
, 33–35

Category killers
, 99

Central processing unit (CPU)
, 58

Chaebols
, 68, 83, 90–91

City of London Financial Center
, 153–154

Co-control production scheduling
, 81

Collateralized debt objects (CDOs)
, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135

Collector
, 45

Commercial banks
, 7, 8, 141

role
, 126

stability
, 126

Commodity
, 103–107

Compac
, 61

Competition
, 70

Competitors
, 18

Conglomerate firm
, 7

Contagion
, 137

Control

in organization
, 83

plane activities
, 80–81

Core ideas
, 3–4

Corporate raiders
, 96

Corporate-conglomerates
, 83

Corruption
, 163

Creative destruction
, 56, 91–92

in global memory chip industries
, 93

in memory chip industry
, 53–56

Schumpeterian theory in industrial dynamics
, 56–57

Credit

credit-debt
, 105

freezing
, 140

Credit default swaps (CDS)
, 129, 131–132

Cultural interaction
, 111

Cultural plane
, 114, 115

Debt
, 106

debt-to-equity ratio
, 103

deflation
, 106

Dell
, 61

Depressions
, 120

Derivative traders
, 34

“Derivative-arbitrage” trading
, 34

DESCO
, 13–14

Diamond, D. W.
, 26

Discount window
, 40

account
, 7–8

Disequilibrium model
, (see also Neo-Keynsian model)

of Drexel’s junk bond market
, 96

of financial market
, 107, 126

Disequilibrium systems model of corporate leveraged buy-outs
, 96

Drexel Firestone
, 95–96

Due diligence
, 156

Dybvig, P. H.
, 26

Dynamic random access memory chip (DRAM chip)
, 51–52, 54–55, 57

Eberhard, Martin (eBook inventer)
, 19

eBook in Amazon
, 19–20

Economic/economy
, 112

idealism
, 146–148

interactions
, 111

plane
, 114, 116, 118

progress for functional planes of US society
, 114

theory
, 103–107

Electro-Dynamics Corp
, 94

Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors (Shockley)
, 46

Elf affair
, 156

Emitter
, 45

Enterprise environment
, 8

Enterprise system
, 9–11

operations model
, 78

Equilibrium price
, 103

Eurobond market
, 151

Excel
, 73–75

Extrapolation technique
, 174, 175

Fairchild Semiconductor
, 47

Financial agents
, 105–106

Financial capital–asset transaction
, 105–106

Financial contagion
, 139, 140

Financial derivative(s)
, 32–33

as casino banking
, 33–35

Financial firms
, 83

Financial innovation
, 131, 153

Financial market(s)
, 8, 103–107, 123

bank panics
, 144

Bear Sterns collapses
, 126–131

mortgage-asset securitization product analysis
, 131–135

plunge in Dow Jones Index
, 130

rescuing Wall Street
, 135–143

traditional role of investment banking
, 123–126

Financial products
, 126

Financial system
, 125

Financial value
, 32

First Data
, 98

Fiscal policy
, 121

“Flipping” control
, 147

Food resources
, 6

Ford Motor Company
, 71, 72

Forecasting
, 174–175

Four-chip microprocessor
, 58, 60

Four-factor model
, 10

Four-factor strategic model
, 1

“Fragility of banks”
, 120

Front office
, 36

Future liquidity
, 105, 134

Future profit
, 65

Futures trading

business model in agriculture
, 32

Futures-derivative contract
, 32

Futures-of-an-asset
, 31

“Futures” contract
, 32

Gambling
, 33–34

General Electric (GE)
, 139–140

General Theory
, 105

Glass-Steagle Act
, 119

Global Financial Crisis (2007–2008)
, 136

Global Financial Integrity
, 161–162

Goldsmiths
, 25

“Good money”
, 28

Government
, 112

Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO)
, 84–85

Green Cupboards
, 19

Grocery market
, 7

Harrod–Domar algebraic model
, 147

Harrod–Domar Macro-economic model
, 148

Harrod–Domar model
, 146–147

Holding companies
, 83–84

Berkshire Hathaway
, 84–86

IC chip industry
, 91–93

Korean chaebols
, 90–91

strategic control
, 100

US conglomerates
, 93–94

Wall Street junk bonds
, 94–99

Zaibatsu/Keiretsu in Japan
, 87–90

Honda Accord
, 75

Hot money narrow outflows (HMN)
, 162

Hyundai Motor
, 65–68, 71–77

acquiring car-assembly technical expertise
, 73

automobile production system
, 73

path-following
, 72

path-revealing
, 72

strategic business model
, 68–69

Hyundai Motor Company (HMC)
, 69, 72

IBM
, 52, 60

IC chip industry
, 91–93

Idealism of international capital flows
, 161

Identity
, 110

Illicit financial flows (IFFs)
, 162

“Imperfection” in derivatives market
, 134

Industrial dynamics

of new industries based on technological innovation
, 57

Schumpeterian theory of creative destruction in
, 56–57

of US automobile industry
, 70–71

US domestic sales of automobiles
, 71

Industrial life cycle
, 56, 70

Industrially-depressed state
, 119

Industry production in US
, 110

Information systems
, 81

Information technology
, 50

Initial public offering (IPO)
, 16, 124

Innovation
, 45

Insolvency
, 108

“Instability of credit”
, 120

Institutional change in Wall Street
, 148–150

Integrated circuit chip (IC chip)
, 43

invention
, 46–48

Intel
, 43

business environment
, 54

foundation
, 50–51

microprocessor business model
, 60–62

microprocessor chips and Moore’s law
, 62

microprocessor innovation
, 57–60

percentage production of memory vs. microprocessor chips
, 56

strategic business model
, 51–53, 61

International Financial Grid
, 148, 150–157

International Financial Networks
, 155

Internet
, 13

marketplace platform
, 18

retailer
, 18

Investment banking, traditional role of
, 123–126

Investment research
, 149

Japanese electronic firms
, 92

Junk bonds
, 94–97

financial innovation
, 95

Juno (e-mail service)
, 14

Keynes/Minsky

capital-asset financial process
, 134

description model of financial asset transaction
, 106

Kia Motors
, 75–76

Kindle (Amazon’s eBook)
, 20

Knowledge structure
, 112

Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co (KKR)
, 97–98

Korean chaebols
, 90–91

Large-scale integration (LSI)
, 48, 54–55

Leverage
, 106

Minsky Price–disequilibrium process due to
, 107

speculative
, 143

Leveraged buyouts
, 95

“Leveraged-buy-out” funds
, 83–84

Logical domain
, 10

Loss of capital
, (see Insolvency)

Macroeconomic(s)
, 146

theory
, 146–148

Manufacturing enterprise

operations model
, 79

Manufacturing firms
, 83

Margin loans
, 108

Market
, 18

Marketplace in Amazon
, 17–19

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
, 44

Meiji Restoration
, 87

Memory chip industry, creative destruction in
, 53–56

Memory IC chips
, 51–53

Metal oxide semiconductor transistor (MOS transistor)
, 47

ICs
, 50–51

Microeconomics
, 154

Middle-scale integration (MSI)
, 48, 54

Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
, 54, 92

Minsky disequilibrium model of US stock market
, 115

Minsky moment
, 107

Minsky Price–disequilibrium process due to leverage
, 107

“Mis-invoicing”
, 162

Mitsubishi zaibatsu
, 89

Mitsui Group
, 88

Money
, 40, 109

market funds
, 137–138

Moore’s law
, 48–50, 52, 55

Intel microprocessor chips and
, 62

Mortgage Securitization Product
, 135

Mortgage-asset securitization product analysis
, 131–135

National Labor Relations Act
, 119

Natural limit
, 50

Neblett, Josh (founder of Green Cupboards)
, 19

Neo-classical synthesis
, 26, 103, 107

“Neo-Keynesian” school
, 27–28, 104, 107

Neo-Keynsian model
, 103

of financial market
, 104–105

New book retail in Amazon
, 13–16

New Work and Research Centre Canada
, 171–172

Official development assistance (ODA)
, 162

Offshore banking industry
, 155–157

law firms and shell corporations operating with
, 159

Offshore banking network
, 153

Okura zaibatsu
, 89

Open-system strategic model
, 1

Operational emphasis models
, 9–10

Operations models
, 77–81

Opposite futures
, 34

Overly-leveraged investments
, 121

Pali-pali
, 66

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
, 171, 173

Panama Papers
, 157–160

Participant-superior-in-authority
, 111

“Path-revealing”
, 75

“Perfect markets” theory
, 137–138

Personal computers (PCs)
, 60

Physical technology
, 49

Policies control procedures
, 10

Political interaction
, 111

Political plane
, 114, 115, 119

Pony (Korean car)
, 73

Ponzi finance
, 106

Porter’s model of goal-directed transformation
, 1

Porter’s two-factor value-added business model
, 10

Porter’s Value-added Open System Model
, 2

Present-income
, 105

Price-disequilibrium
, 126

Price-disequilibrium-pricing market
, 121

Price/earnings ratio (P/E)
, 94

Production

scheduling controls
, 81

system
, 6

Profit(s)
, 1–2, 65, 77

in Amazon
, 6–7, 16–18

in Barings Bank
, 27

in Hyundai
, 65

in Intel
, 52

investment banking
, 123, 124

in Wells Fargo
, 7–8

in Whole Foods
, 6–7

Public good
, 161

of deposit insurance
, 28

Public utilities
, 102

“Quick-quick” strategy
, 66

Reality of international capital flows
, 161

Reciprocity
, 110–111

Research and development projects (R&D projects)
, 80, 180–181

Research laboratories as bottom-up strategic resource
, 179–181

Reserve account
, 40

Reserve Primary Fund
, 137, 138

Resistors
, 48

Resources
, 1–2, 43

in Amazon
, 6–7, 16–18

in Barings Bank
, 27

as credit
, 7

in Intel
, 52

investment banking
, 123, 124

in Wells Fargo
, 7–8

in Whole Foods
, 6–7

Retail

firms
, 83

Internet
, 14

Revlon
, 97

Rikken Seiyūkai political party
, 89

Risk control
, 30

Rocketbook
, 19

Rogue trader
, 35–37

secret account
, 37–40

Sales
, (see also Financial market(s); Strategic sales), 1–2, 13

in Amazon
, 6–7, 16–18

in Barings Bank
, 27

expanded business factor
, 21

in Intel
, 52

investment banking
, 123, 124

strategic factor of
, 20–22

in Wells Fargo
, 7–8

in Whole Foods
, 6–7

Samsung chaebol
, 93

Savers’ deposits
, 7

Savings and loan banks (S&L banks)
, 96–97

Scenario models into planning process
, 176–177

Scenario planning
, 175–176

Schumpeterian creative–destruction
, 91–93

Schumpeterian theory of creative destruction
, 56–57

Science
, 45

and technological interaction
, 111–112

Scientific technology
, 46

innovation process
, 46

Securitization
, 131, 134, 135, 148

Global Financial Crisis (2007–2008)
, 135–136

mortgage-asset securitization product analysis
, 131–135

scheme
, 132–133

securitized financial market collapse
, 132

“Securitized-mortgage products” collapse
, 127

Semi-log scale
, 49

Settlements clerk
, 36

Shadow banking sector impact
, 156

Shockley Semiconductor
, 46

Silicon Valley
, 46

Societal models
, 109–116

Societal representational space
, 112

Societal system
, 112

Speculation
, 107

Speculative leverage
, 143

Stakeholders
, 83

“Star” workstation
, 172, 173

Static random access memory chip (SRAM chip)
, 51–52

Strategic business environment
, (see Business environment(s))

Strategic business model(s)
, (see also Business model), 1, 77–81

Amazon
, 4–7

automobile production operations within
, 77

of banks
, 26–28

Berkshire Hathaway
, 85–86

business environments
, 9–11

commercial bank of Wells Fargo (2016)
, 7–9

comparison for bank’s loans or trades
, 41

as eBook publisher/retailer
, 20

enterprises systems
, 9–11

four-factor strategic model
, 1

of Hyundai Group
, 68–69

Intel
, 51–53

of investment banks
, 123–124

of Japanese Zaibatsu/Keiretsu
, 90

into planning process
, 176–177

for three book businesses of Amazon
, 21

two inputs and two outputs
, 2

types
, 3

Whole Foods
, 4–7, 8

Strategic capital

Bank Salaries from Loan Activity and from Trading
, 37

Baring’s Rogue Trader
, 35–37

Barings bank
, 25–33

financial derivatives as casino banking
, 33–35

Rogue Trader’s Secret Account
, 37–40

Strategic control
, 83–84, 100

Berkshire Hathaway
, 84–86

IC chip industry
, 91–93

Korean CHAEBOLS
, 90–91

US conglomerates
, 93–94

Wall Street junk bonds
, 94–99

Zaibatsu/Keiretsu in Japan
, 87–90

Strategic environment scenario
, 181

Strategic factors
, 13, 83

of sales
, 20–22

Strategic financial markets
, (see Financial markets)

Strategic idealism
, 145

Strategic investment vehicles (SIV)
, 133

Strategic model of merchant (commercial) bank
, 27

Strategic planning for enterprise
, 10

Strategic profit

Hyundai Motor
, 65–68, 71–77

industrial dynamics of US automobile industry
, 70–71

operations models
, 77–81

strategic business models
, 68–69, 77–81

Strategic resources
, 43

creative destruction in memory chip industry
, 53–56

Intel’s foundation
, 50–51

Intel’s microprocessor business model
, 60–62

Intel’s microprocessor innovation
, 57–60

Intel’s strategic business model
, 51–53

Moore’s law as technology roadmap
, 48–50

Schumpeterian theory of creative destruction
, 56–57

scientific technology innovation process
, 46

technological innovation as
, 45–46

Strategic sales

first strategic business model of Amazon
, 16–17

first strategic model of Amazon
, 13–16

second strategic business model of Amazon
, 17–19

third strategic business model of Amazon
, 19–20

Strategy

case of Xerox
, 166–169, 177–179

fitting scenario models and strategic business models into planning process
, 176–177

forecasting
, 174–175

perspectives on strategic logic
, 166

process
, 169–171

research laboratories as bottom-up strategic resource
, 179–181

scenario planning
, 175–176

theory of
, 165

Structural functionalism
, 112

Structural unemployment
, 117

Sumitomo zaibatsu
, 89

Supply–demand disequilibrium pricing
, 118

Support plane activities
, 80

“Take-over raider”
, 97

Tarpenning, Marc (eBook inventer)
, 19

Taxonomic model of functional systems in society
, 113

Technological/technology
, 18

invention as strategic resources
, 45

plane
, 114, 116, 119

progress in IC chips
, 57

Technology roadmap
, 49

Moore’s law as
, 48–50

Tennessee Valley Authority
, 119

Three-plane operations model
, 78

Time dependence in Keynes’ model
, 105

Time dimension
, 105

Toyota Camry
, 75

Toys “R” Us
, 98–99

Traded corporation
, 97

Trading, bank salaries from loan activity and from
, 37

Traditional economic theory
, 141

Transformation plane activities
, 79

Transistor invention
, 43–45

Trench-reality
, 165

Two-factor model
, 1, 10

Ultra large scale integration (ULSI)
, 48

United States (US)

conglomerates
, 93–94

Farm Prices
, 117

financial system
, 141, 143

social structural changes between US Society
, 118

unemployment rate in
, 116–117

US Great Depression
, 101–103, 107–109, 116–120

Utility
, 110

Venn diagram
, 10

Very large scale integration (VLSI)
, 48, 55

Volatility in stock markets
, 130

Wall Street
, 124

institutional change in
, 148–150

junk bonds
, 94–99

rescuing
, 135–143

Weberian Model of Functional Relationships in Society
, 111

Webster Research Center Rochester
, 171–172

Wells Fargo Commercial Bank (2016)
, 7–9

Whistle-blowers
, 8

Whole Foods
, 4–7, 8

Working capital
, 40

Works Progress Agency (WPA)
, 119

Xerography
, 167

Xerox
, 166–169, 177–179

Xerox Corporate Research Organization
, 171–174

Xerox Office Products Division
, 172

Yasuda zaibatsu
, 88

Zaibatsu/Keiretsu in Japan
, 87–90