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View article: Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective Open
The digital transformation of industrial-age sectors changes product architectures and industry architectures, influencing how value is created and captured in emerging digital business ecosystems. In the industrial era, products were desi…
View article: Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development
Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development Open
Digitalization and sustainability are currently "hot" topics for policymakers and practitioners.Scholars working on their interaction have been cautious in their optimism, though.Not all digitalization contributes to the creation of sustai…
View article: Re-examining path dependence in the digital age: The evolution of connected car business models
Re-examining path dependence in the digital age: The evolution of connected car business models Open
Proliferating digitalization affects the evolution of business models across contexts and challenges firms’ established innovation trajectories. Prior work on organizational path dependence suggests that firms experience decreasing option …
View article: Sustainable product innovation and changing consumer behavior: Sustainability affordances as triggers of adoption and usage
Sustainable product innovation and changing consumer behavior: Sustainability affordances as triggers of adoption and usage Open
This conceptual paper argues that for sustainable product innovation to make a contribution to addressing sustainability issues, we need to understand not only why consumers adopt sustainable products but also what makes them use these in …
View article: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Digital Transformation: Insights and Implications for Strategy and Organizational Change
A Systematic Review of the Literature on Digital Transformation: Insights and Implications for Strategy and Organizational Change Open
In this article we provide a systematic review of the extensive yet diverse and fragmented literature on digital transformation (DT), with the goal of clarifying boundary conditions to investigate the phenomenon from the perspective of org…
View article: Driving the electric bandwagon: The dynamics of incumbents' sustainable innovation
Driving the electric bandwagon: The dynamics of incumbents' sustainable innovation Open
Given that entire industries face sustainability challenges, it is important to understand the dynamics that lead “firms‐in‐an‐industry” to engage in sustainable product innovation. To provide more insight into the question of how innovati…
View article: When Incumbents Change Their Mind: Framing Strategic Reorientation in Emerging Fields
When Incumbents Change Their Mind: Framing Strategic Reorientation in Emerging Fields Open
How actors evaluate the prospects of novel, sustainable technologies is unlikely to remain stable over time. In this paper, we employ a framing lens to study how the five largest German car manufacturers publicly reframed their strategic p…
View article: Teaching Business Models via Blended-Learning
Teaching Business Models via Blended-Learning Open
The paper at hand describes the application of an online venture creation platform, the Smart Business Modeler, for teaching business model development. The tool has been applied as a part of an experiment with a blended learning approach …
View article: Value Propositions for Disruptive Technologies: Reconfiguration Tactics in the Case of Electric Vehicles
Value Propositions for Disruptive Technologies: Reconfiguration Tactics in the Case of Electric Vehicles Open
Disruptive technologies tend to underperform on attributes that are considered as key attributes of incumbent technologies and require new value propositions to increase mainstream customer appeal. Yet, how do firms reconfigure their value…
View article: Benefits of smart charging for EV drivers and aggregators: an empirical study
Benefits of smart charging for EV drivers and aggregators: an empirical study Open
The increasing popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) is known to enhance the already present peaks in electricity demand. Flexibility and smarter charging have been proposed to alleviate the peak problem and to exploit revenues that may be…
View article: Entrepreneurial orientations and their impact on trade-off decisions in sustainability: the case of sustainable fashion entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial orientations and their impact on trade-off decisions in sustainability: the case of sustainable fashion entrepreneurs Open
Our paper investigates the microfoundations of sustainable entrepreneurship and aims to shed light on trade-offs made in decisions about social, ecological and economic sustainability. Balancing the three dimensions of sustainability (soci…