A business model architecture framework (BMAF) for the architecting of business to business electronic commerce
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description: Business to Business Electronic Commerce (B2B EC) has over 20 years experienced unprecedented growth in practice. Practice has generated many theories, models, and frameworks. The extensive literature review curried out during this research a) has investigated the origins, the terms and the concepts of business models; b) has studied the architecture of existing models used for B2B EC, and c) has evaluated the frameworks in current use for the change and development of business models. The findings show that there is a huge variety of concepts, terminology, and definitions of the architectural components used to present business models. It has showed that overlaps and gaps exist between these concepts as each, researcher and practitioner tends to focus only on a specific aspect of the business model. The result is a mix of concepts with the same meanings but different names and vice versa. Also, traditional solutions have failed to successfully support the development of a business model for e-commerce as they do not provide full and complete support (at not enough level of detail), but only provide general guidelines or steps described in quite brief terms. This research focuses on the development of a framework for the architecting of e-business models, especially those used for B2B EC. A mixed research methodology was adopted using both qualitative and quantitative methods. In order to address the limitations identified, this research, classifies, rationalises and standardises business model architectural concepts into four thematic architecture domains namely: business, data/information, application, and technology. This new conceptualisation approach is the main axis of the proposed framework that enables the achievement of two goals a) to define the business model architecture for e-business and b) to support the process for construction/reconstruction of an e-business model. In particular, this research proposes a conceptual notation necessary for the descrip…
abstract: Business to Business Electronic Commerce (B2B EC) has over 20 years experienced unprecedented growth in practice. Practice has generated many theories, models, and frameworks. The extensive literature review curried out during this research a) has investigated the origins, the terms and the concepts of business models; b) has studied the architecture of existing models used for B2B EC, and c) has evaluated the frameworks in current use for the change and development of business models. The findings show that there is a huge variety of concepts, terminology, and definitions of the architectural components used to present business models. It has showed that overlaps and gaps exist between these concepts as each, researcher and practitioner tends to focus only on a specific aspect of the business model. The result is a mix of concepts with the same meanings but different names and vice versa. Also, traditional solutions have failed to successfully support the development of a business model for e-commerce as they do not provide full and complete support (at not enough level of detail), but only provide general guidelines or steps described in quite brief terms. This research focuses on the development of a framework for the architecting of e-business models, especially those used for B2B EC. A mixed research methodology was adopted using both qualitative and quantitative methods. In order to address the limitations identified, this research, classifies, rationalises and standardises business model architectural concepts into four thematic architecture domains namely: business, data/information, application, and technology. This new conceptualisation approach is the main axis of the proposed framework that enables the achievement of two goals a) to define the business model architecture for e-business and b) to support the process for construction/reconstruction of an e-business model. In particular, this research proposes a conceptual notation necessary for the descrip…
author: Paltalidis, Nickos G.
keywords: 650 Management & auxiliary services
date published: 2014
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:54:33Z
provider: London Metropolitan University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: London Metropolitan University