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Publication date: 1 December 2003

Organizational knowledge in the making: how firms create, use, and institutionalize knowledge

Markus Perkmann

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Information Technology & People, vol. 16 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09593840310509680
ISSN: 0959-3845

Keywords

  • Knowledge
  • Organisation
  • Institutionalisation
  • Routines
  • Ethnography
  • Narratives

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Publication date: 8 July 2010

What are business models? Developing a theory of performative representations

Markus Perkmann and André Spicer

Despite a rich extant literature, it is unclear what business models are. We assess three dominant conceptions of business models in the academic literature: as…

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Despite a rich extant literature, it is unclear what business models are. We assess three dominant conceptions of business models in the academic literature: as transactional structures, value extracting devices, and mechanisms for structuring the organization. To overcome the shortcomings of these approaches, we draw on theories of performativity, social typecasting, and managerial cognition. We propose an alternative conception of business models as performative representations that work in three ways: as narratives that convince, typifications that legitimate, and recipes that guide social action. Rather than actual features of firms, business models are representations that allow managers to articulate and instantiate the value of new technologies.

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Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2010)0000029020
ISBN: 978-1-84950-984-8

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Publication date: 24 May 2011

Pick partner to stimulate innovation: Companies see collaboration as problem‐solver

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

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Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

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This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

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For commerical organizations to engage in strategic collaboration with universities is nothing new – especially in the more developed parts of the world – but the focus on desired outcomes has become more intense.

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Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.

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The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to digest format.

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Strategic Direction, vol. 27 no. 7
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/02580541111137038
ISSN: 0258-0543

Keywords

  • Best practice
  • Competitive strategy
  • Customers
  • Joint ventures
  • Research
  • Strategic alliances

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Publication date: 8 July 2010

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Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2010)0000029003
ISBN: 978-1-84950-984-8

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Publication date: 8 July 2010

Introduction: Joan Woodward and the study of organizations

Graham Sewell and Nelson Phillips

Joan undertook the ground-breaking project originally reported in the 1958 pamphlet, Management and Technology, not at one of Britain's great universities, but at the…

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Joan undertook the ground-breaking project originally reported in the 1958 pamphlet, Management and Technology, not at one of Britain's great universities, but at the unfashionable address of the South East Essex Technical College (then in the county of Essex but now part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham). The Human Relations Research Unit had been set up at the college, which is now part of the University of East London, in 1953 with support from a number of agencies including funding ultimately derived from the Marshall Plan. Its express purpose was to enhance the performance of industry and commerce through the application of social science. Those readers familiar with the area will know that, at the time, it was economically and culturally dominated by the Ford assembly plant in nearby Dagenham, but it was also home to a diverse range of small- and medium-sized industrial workshops that were typical of the pre-war Greater London economy (Woodward, 1965; Massey & Meegan, 1982). It was into this diverse industrial milieu that Joan and her research team ventured (Fig. 1), completing their main study in 1958.

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Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2010)0000029005
ISBN: 978-1-84950-984-8

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Publication date: 27 October 2015

Antecedents and Consequences of Business Model Innovation: The Role of Industry Structure

Florian Waldner, Marion K. Poetz, Christoph Grimpe and Markus Eurich

What makes firms innovate their business models? Why do they engage in innovating how they create, deliver, and capture value? And how does such innovation translate into…

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What makes firms innovate their business models? Why do they engage in innovating how they create, deliver, and capture value? And how does such innovation translate into innovation performance? Despite the importance of business model innovation for achieving competitive advantage, existing evidence seems to be confined to firm-level antecedents and pays little attention to the impact of industry structure. This study investigates how different stages of an industry’s life cycle and levels of industry competition affect firms’ business model innovation, and how such innovation translates into innovation performance. Based on a cross-industry sample of 1,242 Austrian firms, we introduce a unique measure for the degree of innovation in a firm’s business model. The results indicate that the degree of business model innovation is highest toward the beginning of an industry life cycle, that is, in the emergent stage. Competitive industry pressures turn out to be negatively related to the degree of business model innovation. Moreover, we find that the degree of a firm’s business model innovation, conditional on it having introduced a new product or process recently, positively influences innovation performance. Our findings contribute to the ongoing dialog on the role of industry structure in business model innovation, and provide implications for the management of business model innovation.

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Business Models and Modelling
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220150000033009
ISBN: 978-1-78560-462-1

Keywords

  • Business model
  • business model innovation
  • industry life cycle
  • competition
  • strategy

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Publication date: 10 February 2012

Elucidation and enhancement of knowledge and technology transfer business models

Réjean Landry and Nabil Amara

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework identifying and differentiating how knowledge and technology transfer organizations (KTTOs) create value…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework identifying and differentiating how knowledge and technology transfer organizations (KTTOs) create value from how they capture and transfer value.

Design/methodology/approach

The argument of the paper is developed in two steps. First, the knowledge and technology transfer process is conceptualized as a value chain. Second, the internal KTTO's value chain perspective is extended by integrating the knowledge and technology transfer value chain into a business model conceptual perspective in order to emphasize the value captured by the clients of KTTOs. Then, the authors examine how KTTO managers could describe, benchmark and improve their business models by altering or reinforcing how they are positioned with respect to the interdependent elements of their business model. Finally, the elements of the conceptual framework are used to derive emblematic types of business models and provide exemplary cases for each emblematic case.

Findings

Looking at KTTO management under the lenses of business models invites KTTO managers to look at knowledge and technology transfer as a whole. It suggests to managers to invest resources not only in the improvement of these elements where their organizations are strong, but also in these elements that constitute their weakest elements in the business model. Failure to improve the weakest elements of the business model might compromise the overall knowledge and technology transfer capabilities and performances of KTTOs.

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The conceptual framework developed in this paper is intended as a starting point to explore how KTTO managers may be more effective in creating and capturing value from knowledge transfer.

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VINE, vol. 42 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/03055721211207789
ISSN: 0305-5728

Keywords

  • Knowledge
  • Technology
  • Transfer
  • Value creation
  • Processes
  • Value chain
  • Business models
  • Knowledge management
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Organizations

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