Strategic reasoning about business models: A conceptual modeling approach

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-198

  Samavi, Reza ^a   Yu, Eric ^a   Topaloglou, Thodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business model ontologies; Business modeling; Requirement engineering; Service science; Strategic reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349089587     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-008-0079-z     Document Type: Article

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