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  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
15,796 Views
27 Pages

15 October 2021

Organisations must derive adequate business value (BV) from Business Intelligence (BI) adoption to retain their profitability and long-term sustainability. Yet, the nuances that define the realisation of BV from BI are still not understood by many or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,503 Views
17 Pages

14 October 2020

Today, as organizations face constant change, they must rapidly adapt their strategies and operations. This involves continuous business transformation. However, guiding and managing such transformation can be an intimidating task because of organiza...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,580 Views
13 Pages

Business Models and Innovation in the Indonesian Smallholder Beef Value Chain

  • Zenal Asikin,
  • Derek Baker,
  • Renato Villano and
  • Arief Daryanto

28 August 2020

This paper proposes a framework for identification of business models in smallholder cattle production and marketing that represents innovation behaviour. Cattle are vital to Indonesia’s smallholders’ livelihoods, and smallholder systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,781 Views
20 Pages

20 April 2021

Research into business ecosystems has rarely examined the success of business ecosystem members. Business ecosystem leaders tend to focus on their own success rather than carefully monitoring the success of business ecosystem members, and each member...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,740 Views
10 Pages

Can a Blockchain-Based Maas Create Business Value?

  • Gabriel Hogan,
  • Sigma Dolins,
  • Izzet Fatih Senturk,
  • Ioannis Fyrogenis,
  • Qian Fu,
  • Erion Murati,
  • Federico Costantini and
  • Nikolas Thomopoulos

In this paper two contemporary technological novelties are combined to introduce the concept of a blockchain-based MaaS, with the aim of pinpointing where and how business value can be created through data-based services of such a system. Towards thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,534 Views
20 Pages

28 December 2024

The objective of this work is to develop a qualitative new approach to assessing business and company value. For this purpose, two of the three income approach methods, CAPM and WACC, are modified. When modifying CAPM, a new model, CAPM 2.0, was crea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,661 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Relationship between the Entrepreneurship Motive and Value Creation in Business Incubators

  • Cristina Lin-Lian,
  • Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero and
  • José Luis Montes-Botella

25 June 2022

In this study, we aimed to explore whether, regardless of the reasons why entrepreneurs start their activity, either due to necessity or vocation, they positively value the capacity of business incubators as a mechanism to help create value, contribu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,968 Views
16 Pages

25 June 2022

The objective of this study is to identify the environment for business interactions in virtual reality in the value co-production and co-creation process and to understand how such an environment enables the sustainable development of co-creational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,504 Views
17 Pages

Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Value Creation in Construction Companies

  • Igor Ceratti Treptow,
  • Jordana Marques Kneipp,
  • Clandia Maffini Gomes,
  • Isak Kruglianskas,
  • Rodrigo Reis Favarin and
  • Carlos María Fernandez-Jardón

15 August 2022

This paper aimed to analyze how innovations in the business model contribute to creating sustainable value in construction companies. The results revealed that analyzed companies implement practices that enhance their reputation and contribute to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,871 Views
42 Pages

31 August 2018

The topic of a sustainable business model is currently the subject of much scientific research that covers a wide range of topics, from terminological aspects to aspects related to the impact of sustainability factors on company development. So far,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,629 Views
26 Pages

1 August 2025

The effective design of logistics platform business models is an important means for platform-type logistics enterprises to gain a competitive advantage. This study employs RRS Logistics as a case study to clarify the dynamic environmental mechanisms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
24,884 Views
24 Pages

17 February 2023

Social business organizations work to achieve social and business goals to create shared value (CSV). Strategic human resource management (SHRM) is one of the key components of optimizing shared value. The available literature needs more evidence on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,257 Views
18 Pages

11 May 2020

The paper’s objective is to describe business models currently used in terms of sustainable multiple customer creation in the chemical industry in the Czech Republic, namely Section 20.1 in the CZ NACE (Classification of Economic Activities). T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,545 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2021

A growing number of companies provide CE products, technologies, services, and solutions, and similarly, an increasing number of researchers have analyzed sustainable and CE business models providing knowledge about CE technology businesses. However,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
259 Citations
244,201 Views
42 Pages

2 February 2023

For organizations, the development of new business models and competitive advantages through the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in business and IT strategies holds considerable promise. The majority of businesses are finding it difficult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,916 Views
17 Pages

Understanding Business Requirements for Increasing the Uptake of Recycled Plastic: A Value Chain Perspective

  • Malou van der Vegt,
  • Evert-Jan Velzing,
  • Martijn Rietbergen and
  • Rhiannon Hunt

Circularity and recycling are gaining increased attention, yet the amount of recycled plastic applied in new products remains low. To accelerate its uptake by businesses, it will be useful to empirically investigate the barriers, enablers, needs and,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,767 Views
15 Pages

How Business Idea Fit Affects Sustainability and Creates Opportunities for Value Co-Creation in Nascent Firms

  • Gian Luca Casali,
  • Mirko Perano,
  • Andrea Moretta Tartaglione and
  • Roxanne Zolin

14 January 2018

A well-defined business idea is essential for nascent business sustainability in the future. The business idea must fit firm knowledge and resources to a profitable business opportunity. This work adopts the framework of value co-creation, strongly r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
14,752 Views
24 Pages

7 January 2021

This study contributes to the growing interest in hybrid organisations, sustainable business models and inclusive value chain development (IVCD). Recent work has identified that of some 570 million farmers in the world, more than 475 million farmers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,853 Views
22 Pages

18 November 2021

The increasing pressure on people to do something for society, in combination with the need for financial turnover in order to survive, is seen as one of the dominant factors for the rise of social enterprises. However, there is still debate on how s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,424 Views
16 Pages

This study incorporates business environment, foreign direct investment (FDI), and the global value chain upgrading into a unified analysis framework to unravel the effects of business environment and FDI on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,348 Views
23 Pages

18 May 2021

Increased manufacturing activity has an impact on environmental quality degradation. Waste generated from manufacturing activities is one of the causes. Previous studies have referred to this waste as value uncaptured. Minimizing value uncaptured is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,362 Views
17 Pages

22 September 2020

Although technological acquisitions have attracted much attention as a prominent means of open innovation that allows firms to complement internal innovation, their shareholder value creation effects should be influenced by whether the acquiring fami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,926 Views
20 Pages

Aligning Values for Impact: A Value Mapping Tool Applied to Social Innovation for Sustainable Business Modelling

  • Carla Vivas,
  • Susana Leal,
  • João A. M. Nascimento,
  • Luís Cláudio Barradas and
  • Sandra Oliveira

7 July 2025

As sustainability becomes increasingly central to organizational strategy, social economy organizations (SEOs) are rethinking their business models. This study employs stakeholder analysis using the value mapping (VM) tool developed by Short, Rana, B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
26,773 Views
16 Pages

Forward Thinking for Sustainable Business Value: A New Method for Impact Valuation

  • Herwig Buchholz,
  • Thomas Eberle,
  • Manfred Klevesath,
  • Alexandra Jürgens,
  • Douglas Beal,
  • Alexander Baic and
  • Joanna Radeke

13 October 2020

How can a company commit to maximizing stakeholder value while maintaining financial performance? Companies increasingly have the ambition to provide stakeholder value to their owners and shareholders, employees, consumers, suppliers, partners, the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,081 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2022

Information technology (IT) has become common in various economic and social fields, accompanied by the objective of facilitating the development of human society. However, the business value of IT has always been uncertain, with the IT “produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,713 Views
25 Pages

11 September 2022

Edge–fog computing and IoT have the ability to revolutionize businesses across all sectors and functions, from customer engagement to manufacturing, which is what makes them so fascinating and emerging. On the basis of research methodology by W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,885 Views
21 Pages

13 October 2021

With the emerging digital platform economy, consumption activities are increasingly integrated in the production process of service platforms, and the development of e-commerce platforms shows a new realm for solving sustainability issues such as res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,686 Views
15 Pages

25 March 2019

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of in-flight service quality on value for money for business passengers in airlines. In this study, in-flight service quality included four dimensions—seat comfort, staff service, foo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,095 Views
29 Pages

Social and Economic Value in Emerging Decentralized Energy Business Models: A Critical Review

  • Sophie Adams,
  • Donal Brown,
  • Juan Pablo Cárdenas Álvarez,
  • Ruzanna Chitchyan,
  • Michael J. Fell,
  • Ulf J. J. Hahnel,
  • Kristina Hojckova,
  • Charlotte Johnson,
  • Lurian Klein and
  • Nicole Watson
  • + 3 authors

24 November 2021

In recent years, numerous studies have explored the opportunities and challenges for emerging decentralized energy systems and business models. However, few studies have focussed specifically on the economic and social value associated with three eme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,537 Views
19 Pages

This article discusses the structures of value propositions in cultural heritage tourism site business models in the context of the concept of open innovation. The objective of the study is to identify value propositions in tourism sites and the tend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,828 Views
32 Pages

14 April 2022

This study examines the effect of managerial ability and compensation on the relationship between business strategy and firm value for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Managers determine, plan, implement, and maintain a firm’s busines...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,084 Views
19 Pages

Influence of Knowledge Management on Business Processes: Value-Added and Sustainability Perspectives

  • Zenona Ona Atkočiūnienė,
  • Justas Gribovskis and
  • Jurgita Raudeliūnienė

21 December 2022

Knowledge management (KM) practice is increasingly less considered as a supportive activity, as knowledge management processes (KMP) are inseparable from critical business processes (BP). Even though some scientific studies underlined that KM integra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,568 Views
17 Pages

25 September 2018

Sharing economy businesses need to increase the value of service effectiveness through the efficiency of their core resources and capabilities, and the effectiveness and efficiency-based services can achieve high results through business competitive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,735 Views
22 Pages

20 May 2021

This study uses the structured–pragmatics–situational case study approach to explore the intrinsic mechanism of enterprise digital enablement using affordance theory and how traditional enterprises enable customers to participate in value co-creation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,377 Views
18 Pages

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of VBM success on the corporate sustainability of Thai listed firms. The effects of successful VBM on decision-making effectiveness, business value creation, and corporate competency are also investigate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
269 Citations
32,552 Views
19 Pages

7 August 2018

This paper contains a theory review of value creation and the implementation of next-generation sustainable business models to profit in the circular economy. While previous research has pointed to the influence of society and regulatory policy on co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,682 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2020

This paper presents a method of generating a business strategy using value chain analysis. There were 186 manufacturing and industrial enterprises from the Czech Republic. The analysis was carried out using mathematical–statistical methods (dim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
584 Views
23 Pages

Driving Sustainable AI Implementation in Business: The Integrated Role of Economic Value Perception, Managerial Attitudes, and Behavioral Intentions

  • Marco Agustín Arbulú Ballesteros,
  • Angelica María Minchola Vásquez,
  • Olger Huamaní Jordan,
  • Ana Elizabeth Paredes Morales,
  • Ericka Julissa Suysuy Chambergo,
  • Christian David Corrales Otazú,
  • Sarita Jessica Apaza Miranda,
  • Maribel Carranza Torres and
  • Lidia Mercedes Olaya Guerrero

19 November 2025

This research examines the relationships among economic value assessment, managerial perspectives, adoption willingness, and long-term AI utilization among organizational leaders in Peru. Using a quantitative cross-sectional design with covariance-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,689 Views
13 Pages

1 September 2021

In an ever increasingly competitive and unstable global market, multinational corporations (MNCs) are greatly pressurised to use inherent capacities and develop effective cross-border business models (CBMs) that can transform value into the desired o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Views
24 Pages

23 January 2026

Tax incentives play a crucial role in enhancing firm dynamism and aiding a nation in becoming a significant trade power. Drawing on data from the Annual Survey of Industrial Firms Database and the Chinese Customs Database for the period 2010 to 2013,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,374 Views
28 Pages

17 April 2023

Enterprises seeking to enhance their innovation capabilities are increasingly turning to open innovation communities (OICs), which allow them to leverage the collective knowledge and collaborative potential of external users, providing a powerful sou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,328 Views
19 Pages

Sustainability Is All about Values: The Challenges of Considering Moral and Benefit Values in Business Model Decisions

  • Ivan Bolis,
  • Sandra Naomi Morioka,
  • Wilza Karla dos Santos Leite and
  • Paulo César Zambroni-de-Souza

12 January 2021

Despite indications in the literature about the existence of win-win business opportunities regarding sustainability, most companies are still producing limited social and environmental results that are disconnected from their value propositions. Stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,678 Views
18 Pages

This study provides an overview of practical approaches to sustainability and its communication to the public in the business sector. The research presented in this article is focused on perceived sustainability in micro and small enterprises in Slov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,789 Views
19 Pages

9 April 2024

Metaverse has become an emerging trend for both academia and industry, and it seems to concern the next generation of the Internet. Although it is still in its grassroots, metaverse is estimated to bring disruption to people’s lives. One of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,956 Views
15 Pages

16 March 2022

Environmental problems at the global level have become a critical issue in today’s fashion industry. However, small-and medium-sized fashion business (SMFBs) encounter barriers in promoting green business owing to finances, professional experti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
22,765 Views
38 Pages

26 May 2014

Simulating organizational processes characterized by interacting human activities, resources, business rules and constraints, is a challenging task, because of the inherent uncertainty, inaccuracy, variability and dynamicity. With regard to this prob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,087 Views
18 Pages

Platform businesses, linking producers and consumers, have emerged as a very important industry. Meanwhile, value co-creation has become one of the critical issues concerning the operation of platform enterprises and the focus of researchers in this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,244 Views
18 Pages

Business model innovation is crucial for enhancing company performance. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the six dimensions of sustainable business model innovation and company performance among Chinese electric vehicle brands....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,667 Views
18 Pages

3 September 2023

In an era of increasing environmental challenges, the transition to a low-carbon economy is an essential step for the manufacturing and industrial sectors. The quality of business processes plays a key role in the transition to a zero-carbon economy....

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