Managing the value appropriation dilemma in business model innovation

Managers and designers of innovative business models that are enabled by emerging technologies need to build legitimacy with ecosystem participants. Yet increasing legitimacy within the ecosystem raises competitors’ incentives to imitate the business model innovators, thereby adversely affecting the...

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Autores: Snihur, Y. (Yuliya)|||/items/dc92da77-a61b-424b-976c-56fe08f414c7, Zott, C. (Christoph)|||/items/64efc2c1-f983-41ab-9138-b69aa91146d8, Amit, R. (Raphael)|||/items/c0c4e6c2-3edc-47bf-bbba-bf4a7dd8e21a
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/117214
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/117214
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Business model innovation
Ecosystems
Emerging technology and innovation management
Institutional theory
Resource-based perspectives
Strategic design
Value appropriation
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Sumario:Managers and designers of innovative business models that are enabled by emerging technologies need to build legitimacy with ecosystem participants. Yet increasing legitimacy within the ecosystem raises competitors’ incentives to imitate the business model innovators, thereby adversely affecting the innovators’ ability to appropriate value. We refer to this trade-off as the appropriation dilemma. We draw on institutional and resource-based perspectives to develop propositions about mitigating the appropriation dilemma and provide illustrations with a range of cases. Our theory development contributes to the technology management and business model innovation literatures by delineating how business model innovators can create value for all stakeholders and at the same time appropriate value through strategic business model design, a task that is particularly salient in the context of emerging technologies. We also strengthen the theoretical foundations of business model innovation research by grounding propositions about the strategic design of business models in resource-based theory and institutional theory.