Business models: An information systems research agenda

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-53

  Veit, Daniel ^a   Clemons, Eric ^b   Benlian, Alexander ^c   Buxmann, Peter ^c   Hess, Thomas ^d   Kundisch, Dennis ^e   Leimeister, Jan Marco ^f,g   Loos, Peter ^h   Spann, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^h SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business model; Business process; Information systems; Research agenda; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027919124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-013-0308-y     Document Type: Article

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