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Business models in process industries: Emerging trends and future research

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posted on 2020-11-06, 10:26 authored by Stephan von Delft, Yang Zhao
This article reviews the literature on business models in process industries. The review reveals that the business model concept has gained an increasing amount of attention in process-industrial research, but it also shows that the literature exhibits a lack of construct clarity and that it is developing in different domains, depending on the perspectives scholars have taken to study business models in process industries. Specifically, while innovation management scholars have explored the relationship between technological innovations and business models as well as the process and outcomes of business model innovation, scholars from the domain of production management have focused on value chain (re)configurations and taken a system-based perspective to consider boundary-spanning exchanges with key stakeholders in the design of business models. However, despite variance in the perspectives, the review further shows that works in these divergent domains point to a family of emerging themes and to common ideas that have not been explored together. This allows us to identify the particularities of business models in process industries and develop a definition of process-industrial business models, which extends prior business model literature into the process industry context. Furthermore, we synthesize these connections to develop an agenda for future, cross-disciplinary research on business models in process industries that assists cumulative theorizing and subsequent empirical progress.

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School

  • Loughborough University London

Published in

Technovation

Volume

105

Publisher

Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© Elsevier

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Technovation and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2020.102195

Acceptance date

2020-10-28

Publication date

2020-11-07

Copyright date

2021

ISSN

0166-4972

eISSN

1879-2383

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Yang Zhao Deposit date: 4 November 2020

Article number

102195

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