Crafting Business Architecture: the Antecedents of Business Model Design

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 331-350

  Amit, Raphael ^a   Zott, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

business model; design; design antecedents; design themes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978159548     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1200     Document Type: Article

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