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Showing 1 to 20 of 444 for “"Business models"”.
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Business models and higher education
… believes that the wide ranging use of the term business model in academic and practitioner arenas suggests that the clarification of its use rhetorically, strategically or managerially or lack of use would be of interest to both academics and management practitioners. Universities face …
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Operations of Innovative Business Models
… rapid growth of many innovative and disruptive business models. This dissertation identifies a few of the unique inefficiencies and challenges that these new business models bring for small entrepreneurs and recommends ways to solve them. </p><p>The second and third chapters of this dissertation …
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Digital Transformation of Business Models
… the impact of digital transformation on the business models of the German automotive retail industry, with a particular focus on automotive retail sales strategies. Against the backdrop of changing consumer expectations and rapid technological advances, this work examines how digital tools …
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Business models of information aggregators
… of information aggregators, and proposes nine business models appropriate for information aggregators. These nine models are: advertising, brokerage, subscription, licensing, infomediary (information intermediaries), referral/click-through, customized/personalized service, professional …
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Advanced peer-based technology business models
… comparison. The results indicate that a viable business model requires several responses to current trends. The qualitative model proposed in this thesis consists of three strategic complementarities: I . A new pricing model. 2. A commercial file sharing standard. 3. A strategy for minimizing …
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Disruptive technology business models in cloud computing
… more rigid software and services licensing models in both small/medium business (SMB) and in the enterprise. This analysis poses a twofold examination of cloud computing as a disruptive technology. First, cloud computing has replaced existing software and services licensing business models, …
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Business models for providing education to the poor
This thesis presents four business cases for delivering education services to the poor. All four business cases meet three fundamental criteria, namely, they are (i) focused on primary or secondary education for the poor, (ii) commercially viable and (iii) highly scalable. These four business cases …
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Understanding platform business models in the telecommunication industry
… Google Hangouts, Viber, Line, etc. The continued business disruption is driving telecom companies to investigate platform-based business models as key ingredients to survival. Platform business models are the core of some of the most powerful and fastest-growing companies such as Alibaba, Uber, …
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Methodology for appraisal of dynamic e-commerce business models
… e-commerce presence is crucial to overall business success. Statistics show that e-commerce is growing very rapidly. According to Goldman Sachs Investment Research [May 2000], the expected worldwide gross value of commerce transactions being done online is to grow to 7.6 trillion by 2005 …
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Methodology for appraisal of dynamic e-commerce business models
… e-commerce presence is crucial to overall business success. Statistics show that e-commerce is growing very rapidly. According to Goldman Sachs Investment Research [May 2000], the expected worldwide gross value of commerce transactions being done online is to grow to 7.6 trillion by 2005 …
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The business of English universities : Business models and curriculum.
… that universities are tending to be run as businesses, and its central aim is to reveal the business models within. These can be a useful 'lens' through which to view developments in higher education.An overview of the historical development of the curriculum in English universities is …
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Business Models for Second-life Electric Vehicle Battery Systems
Innovative Business Models (BMs) are essential in commercialising new technologies that are initially seen as inferior. Battery second use (B2U) brings used batteries from an electric vehicle (EV) into a secondary storage application and holds the potential to improve the sustainability of EVs …
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Business models for information commons in the pharmaceutical industry
The pharmaceutical industry needs new modes of innovation. The industry's innovation system - based on massive investments in R&D protected by intellectual property rights - has worked well for many years, providing incentives for pharmaceutical firms to invest in developing drugs across a wide …
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Evaluating e-business models for the UK and Malaysian companies.
Despite the benefits offered by e-business, there is a lack of indication that its functionality is being widely harnessed in practice. Research evidence suggests that the fear of lagging behind in adopting the technology (Internet) has rushed many firms to blindly engage in e-business initiatives …
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Defining new business models for the mobile device supply chain
… supply chain management costs to meet future business needs related to cash flow.' By analyzing Nokia's historical supply chain performance, we will develop a model to quantify Nokia's "level of control" over its supply chain. We define this "level of control" in terms of the Operational …
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Opportunities for augmenting elder care business models with digital solutions
… healthy, and happy. To this end there are many business opportunities, especially those that use new technology to create innovative solutions for providing consistent, high quality care that's financially efficient for the client and lucrative for the provider. The purpose of this paper is to …
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U.S. airline business models 2006-2015 : trends and key impacts
… thesis focuses on the evolution of U.S. airline business models from 2006-2015, and the impacts of these changes on other stakeholders in the U.S. air transportation system. The U.S. airline industry has been affected by increasingly volatile profit cycles since its deregulation in 1978. This …
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Essays on Service Operations with Strategic Customers and Innovative Business Models
<p>This dissertation studies operations management problems in service operations and supply chains, analyzing the impact of strategic customers and disruptive technologies. We investigate three problems, and insights from the study of each one illuminate the effect of information and/or strategic …
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Social enterprise business models: identifying the trading concepts that inform them.
… goods to alleviate social problems, and adopt business models to ensure financial sustainability. Differentiated from commercial enterprises due to their primary social mission, and from traditional nonprofit organisations due to their implementation of trading activities, little is known about …
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