Towards a Unified Business Model Vocabulary: A Proposition of Key Constructs
Journal
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
ISSN-Digital
0718-1876
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2014-01-01
Author(s)
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
The design of business models is of decisive importance and as such it has been a major research theme in service and particularly electronic markets. Today, different definitions of the term and ideas of core constructs of business models exist. In this paper we present a unified vocabulary for business models that builds upon the elementary perception of three existing, yet very dissimilar ontologies for modeling the essence of a business. The resulting unified business model vocabulary not only condenses existing knowledge, but also tries to concatenate and (thematically) group the identified constructs into domain, enterprise, and value concepts. The resulting vocabulary helps business model designers in shaping the basic notions of their businesses.
Funding(s)
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Faculty of Engineering, University of Talca
Publisher place
Talca
Volume
9
Number
1
Start page
19
End page
27
Pages
9
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
228853
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