Date: 06/2010
Author(s): Zott, Christoph; Amit, R.
Document type: Article in Journal (refereed)
Building on existing literature, we conceptualize a firm's business model as a system of interdependent activities that transcends the focal firm and spans its boundaries. The activity system enables the firm, in concert with its partners, to create value and also to appropriate a share of that value. Anchored on theoretical and empirical research, ...
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Date: 06/2010
Author(s): Huy, Q.; Zott, Christoph
Document type: Working Paper
Based on a four-year field study of six new ventures, we investigate whether and how founders of new firms engaged in affective sensegiving with diverse stakeholders; namely investors, board members, customers and employees. Affective sensegiving refers to founders' integrating affect in their verbal statements and actions to influence stakeholders' ...
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Date: 06/2010
Author(s): Zott, Christoph; Amit, R.; Massa, L.
Document type: Working Paper
The paper provides a broad and multifaceted review of the received literature on business models, in which we attempt to explore the origin of the construct and to examine the business model concept through multiple disciplinary and subject-matter lenses. The review reveals that scholars do not agree on what a business model is, and that the literature ...
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Date: 10/2009
Author(s): Zott, Christoph; Amit, R.
Document type: Article in Journal (refereed)
Se hace hincapié en la innovación del modelo de negocio como una forma para que los directores generales y los empresarios generen nuevos ingresos y conserven los márgenes, concretamente en tiempos de cambios económicos. La innovación del modelo de negocio reside en la recombinación de los recursos existentes de una empresa y sus socios, y no precisa ...
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Date: 10/2009
Author(s): Zott, Christoph; Amit, R.
Document type: Other Publication
The innovation of business models is a highly powerful tool that can be leveraged by intrapreneurs. Innovating in terms of business models is the best way to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.
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Date: 22/06/2009
Author(s): Zott, Christoph
Document type: Opinion
Una de las primeras pruebas de fuego a la hora de iniciar un negocio es la búsqueda de liquidez para emprender. Pero también es importante rodearse de empleados, clientes y expertos.
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Date: 25/05/2009
Author(s): Zott, Christoph
Document type: Opinion
Estrategia. La esencia de un modelo de éxito es un diseño lógico, que abarque todos y cada uno de los límites de la empresa. Además, debe garantizar la creación de valor para las partes implicadas y lograr que la firma siga siendo el foco de atención.
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Date: 02/2009
Author(s): Zott, Christoph; Amit, R.
Document type: Working Paper
Building on the received literature, we conceptualize a firm's business model as a system of interdependent activities that transcends the focal firm and spans its boundaries. The activity system enables the firm to create value in concert with its partners but also to appropriate a share of the value created. Anchored on theoretical and empirical ...
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Date: 01/2008
Author(s): Zott, Christoph; Amit, R.
Document type: Article in Journal (refereed)
We examine the fit between a firm's product market strategy and its business model. We develop a formal model in order to analyze the contingent effects of product market strategy and business model choices on firm performance. We investigate a unique, manually collected dataset, and find that novelty-centered business models?coupled with product market ...
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Date: 04/2007
Author(s): Zott, Christoph; Amit, R.
Document type: Article in Journal (refereed)
We focus on the design of an organization's set of boundary-spanning transactions--business model design--and ask how business model design affects the performance of entrepreneurial firms. By extending and integrating theoretical perspectives that inform the study of boundary-spanning organization design, we propose hypotheses about the impact of ...
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