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Like many other products in the age of the Internet of Things, cars are becoming increasingly augmented with digital technology and connected with their environment. This sea change demands business models that can transform the disruptive power of the "connected car" into a business model innovation. There is a need for further research to advance the industry-specific understanding of...
The transition of the European Union (EU) electricity sector toward a smart grid environment has led to uncertainty about the role of distribution system operators (DSOs). This uncertainty is due to the rapid emergence of new service possibilities enabled by new information and communication technologies for electricity management and new distributed energy resources. This research addresses the observed...
Since the mid-2000s, air carriers have implemented passenger service systems (PSS) as software used in common with their partners. However, the cases of PSS adoption in airlines have been understudied from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Research in the information systems discipline considers PSS as a type of inter-organizational systems (IOS), and recent work on international business asserts that...
The shortage of young engineers presents a structural problem that deflates growth and innovation and causes high value losses for the economy. To achieve sustainable success in securing new recruits, prospective students from working life are highly relevant for the universities, because they act at the crossroads of Engineering and Business. Although the offer of studying programs alongside work...
A Serious Game combines a serious intention with a game's rules and targets. They are often considered to be technological applications that use games to engage individuals in an experience through which a learning or professional training aim can be explored. From the innovation perspective, concepts such as serious gaming and gamification are the most interesting and valuable in this domain. If...
The on-going paradigm shift from industrial production to value co-creation increases the importance of openness as a central competitive factor. From a systemic point of view, this means that external and internal interfaces within the value creation system need to be created in a way that knowledge can be exchanged more efficiently. However, openness in inter-organizational settings is often blocked...
The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of design factors which consist of training content, training delivery, trainer competency and opportunity to use on small businesswomen's goal setting activities. The instrument for this research is adapted and modified from the Training Transfer Model and Model for Excellence (American Society of Training and Development Competency Research)...
How does one capture value from delivering digital music files which users expect to download for free? This is the fundamental challenge the music industry currently faces. Therefore, new service-based business models are required that incorporate the increased consumption of music on mobile devices, pervasive social networks, peer-to-peer technology, and the internet as the main distribution channel...
This thesis analyzes groupons which are springing up in China and their growing trend according to the Chinese groupon market research report. Through the contrast of corresponding domestic and foreign situation, The article will find a new business model adapting to China's domestic market. Finally, a development strategy of groupon will be put forward.
Online payment is the core in the development of E-commerce. Third party payment, as a major tool of online payment, possesses not only the function of fund transfer but also the function of restricting and supervising both parties of the transaction. This paper discusses such issues as poor security, lack of supervision and lack of law of third party payment in China at present. On the basis of the...
Business modal is a newly emerged research area that has been developed for about a decade, and its theoretical framework needs to be established on the basis of a thorough understanding of its nature. The present paper, therefore, starting from the relevant literatures, investigates the intrinsic features of the business model from the following perspectives: business relationship, business network,...
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Information security is often called an 'arms race', but little is known about the co-evolutionary dynamics of innovation. To facilitate such research, we define two formal methods that can be executed by computational agents in a multi-agent system. First, we formalize the definition of capabilities and business models as a 'viable system'. We generalize it to encompass technological, sociological,...
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