Business Model Design: An Activity System Perspective

2009/08/27 by Christoph Zott, Raphael Amit · 3,085 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · #Architecture #Artificial intelligence #Business #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #Business model #Computer science #Corporate governance #Industrial organization #Information Technology Governance and Strategy #Interdependence #Knowledge management #Marketing #Novelty #Perspective (graphical) #Process management #Psychology #Service and Product Innovation #Sociology #Value (mathematics) #Value creation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2009.07.004

published in Long Range Planning 43(2-3), 216-226 (Elsevier BV)

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