Retaining fit between business models and product market strategies in changing environments: behavioral patterns to reduce external dependency
Klang, David Hacklin, Fredrik
Klang, David
Hacklin, Fredrik
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2013
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International Journal of Product Development
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18
Publication Issue
3/4
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311
Publication End page
343
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Abstract
Changing environments challenge incumbent firms to retain the fit between their product market strategy and their business model as specific instances of a firm’s strategy and structure. Yet, as the business model depicts the pattern of a firm’s boundary-spanning transactions with customers, vendors and partners, a change in a focal firm’s business model necessitates managing its relationship to these three external parties accordingly. A multiple-case study of 16 firms in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector serves to explore how incumbent firms can enable and support the business model changes that complement the changes in a firm’s product market strategy during technological convergence. The results show that three behavioural patterns – infringing, orchestrating and riding – enable and support the changes in an incumbent firm’s business model that complement those changes in a firm’s product market strategy. These patterns are discussed from the perspective of inter-organisational power and dependency.
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Contingency Theory, Strategy and Structure