Background The recent global economic and financial crises have raised fundamental
questions about the impacts of existing corporate business models on the sustainability of …

The growing body of research on business models draws upon a range of sub-disciplines,
including strategic management, entrepreneurship, organization studies and management …

Digitalization is fundamentally changing the retailing ecosystem for shopping malls as digital
and analogue elements get increasingly intertwined. We conceptualize shopping malls as …

Whether and how “sustainable business models” effectively support sustainable
development is not just a matter of design but also of the measurability and manageability of …

Businesses are increasingly called upon to contribute to efforts to protect biodiversity and
natural capital. Our article presents the results of an action research conducted with a major …

Dear readers, This second issue is the only general research issue in 2018. It includes
seven contributions that address current topics and link to existing discussions in Electronic …

Dear readers, Today, the attribute Bsmart^ is widely used. Among the examples are smart
infrastructures, smart systems, smart cities, smart products or even the smart world (Liu et al …

This chapter explores the future of public sector enterprises in the contemporary metaverse
technological sphere. A literature review approach was adopted to explore customer …

With the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things, a growing number of manufacturing
firms has started to adopt non-ownership business models (NOBMs). NOBM providers …

Dear readers, This issue of Electronic Markets features a special theme on business model
tooling and addresses several design issues in the area of multi-sided platforms as well as …