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Digitalization, business models, and SMEs: How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs?
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Digital transformation is requiring companies to rethink and innovate their business models (BMs). However, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have scarce time and resources for experimenting with their BMs and implementing new strategies. This paper examines whether SMEs that undergo digital transformation perform better if they allocate more resources for BM experimentation and engage more in strategy implementation. An empirical study was conducted on 321 European SMEs that actively use social media, big data, and information technology to innovate their BMs. Furthermore, structural equation modelling showed positive overall firm performance effects of more resource allocation to BM experimentation and more engagement in practices of strategy implementation. These effects were mediated by BM experimentation practices and company innovativeness. Moreover, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) revealed the presence of equifinality by identifying different configurations in which these antecedent conditions affect overall firm overall performance. The results of two methodological approaches showed that SMEs may take different routes to improve their performance when digital transformation is changing their BM. This paper is one of the first to analyse how SMEs can handle the impact of digitalization by spending more time and effort on innovating their BMs. Practical and policy implications are discussed.
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“Based on extensive case-study research (Heikkilä et al., 2018) and on the discussed literature (e.g., Chesbrough & Rosenbloom, 2002;Dunford et al., 2010;Khanagha et al., 2014), we found that, depending on what SMEs try to achieve, specific BM experimentation paths are followed.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.3. Performance antecedents
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- Supportedcites Heikkilä et al., 2018 source
The Abstract reports that SMEs pursuing new businesses, growth, or profitability take distinct business-model innovation paths. The Discussion likewise says their strategic goals determine the types of improvements they make to their business models. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“This requires resources-companies' time and effort-which are especially scarce in most SMEs (Heikkilä, Bouwman, & Heikkilä, 2018).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 1. Introduction
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- Partly supportedcites Heikkilä, Bouwman, & Heikkilä, 2018 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 2.2, “Strategic goals of SMEs” (page unavailable), describes SMEs as having limited resources, supporting the general scarcity claim. It does not specifically say that time and effort are scarce for business-model experimentation or implementing new strategies. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“the specific indirect effects result shows that innovativeness fully mediates the relationship between BM strategy implementation practices and the overall firm performance (β = 0.10, t = 2.89, p < .001).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 5.2. Mediation effect
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“the results show that there is no significant direct relationship between BM strategy implementation practices and overall firm performance”
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“The specific indirect effects test result show that innovativeness partially mediates the relationship between resources for BM experimentation (β = 0.05, t = 2.33, p < .01)and overall firm performance.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 5.2. Mediation effect
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“the PLS-SEM analysis reveals significant path relationships between innovativeness and overall firm performance (β = 0.21, t = 3.02, p < .001)and between BM experimentation practices and overall firm performance (β = 0.17, t = 3.08, p < .001).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 5.1. Hypotheses testing
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“Our literature search on BMI and new digital technologies such as social media and big data for non-telecommunications or non-IT companies show limited contributions (Mack, Marie-Pierre, & Redican, 2017).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 7. Discussion
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“it was also found that literature on BMs in the telecommunications and IT domain is mainly focused on large companies and high-tech start-ups.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 7. Discussion
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“our results show that the SRMR value is 0.067 for the estimated model, which indicates the model has a good fit.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 5. PLS-SEM results
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“Moreover, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) revealed the presence of equifinality by identifying different configurations in which these antecedent conditions affect overall firm overall performance.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > Abstract
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“BMI takes place through a learning process in which discovery via experimentation is more appropriate than conventional analytical approaches (McGrath, 2010) or more cognitiveoriented approaches (Berends, Smits, Reymen, & Podoynitsyna, 2016;Martins, Rindova, & Greenbaum, 2015;Tikkanen, Lamberg, Parvinen, & Kallunki, 2005).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 1. Introduction
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites McGrath, 2010 source
- Disputedcites Berends, Smits, Reymen, & Podoynitsyna, 2016 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper discusses experimentation as one mechanism of business model innovation, but it does not present it as more appropriate than cognitive approaches. The Discussion says both experiential learning and cognitive search appeared necessary in every trajectory and made complementary contributions. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Digital transformation is changing how small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) create and capture value (Bharadwaj, El Sawy, Pavlou, & Venkatraman, 2013;Lucas, Agarwal, Clemons, El Sawy, & Weber, 2013).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 1. Introduction
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- Partly supportedcites Bharadwaj, El Sawy, Pavlou, & Venkatraman, 2013 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The “Sources of Value Creation and Capture” section (page not provided) says digital business strategy alters how firms create and capture value. The “Emergence of Digital Business Strategy” section discusses established firms and startups, but the paper does not establish this claim specifically for SMEs. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lucas, Agarwal, Clemons, El Sawy, & Weber, 2013 source
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“We follow the view that strategy needs to be implemented in the business logic as a first step in the BMI process.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.2. BM strategy implementation practices
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Al-Debei & Avison, 2010 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hedman & Kalling, 2003 source
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The Introduction (page unavailable) describes business models as abstractions of strategy that capture how a firm creates value. That supports a relationship between strategy and business logic, but the paper does not say strategy must be implemented in that logic or that this is the first step in a business-model innovation process. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“The cultural dimension to innovativeness is often considered as a required condition for the capacity dimension (Bock, Opsahl, George & Gann, 2012;Teece, 2010).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.4. BMI and innovativeness
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- Supportedcites Bock, Opsahl, George & Gann, 2012 source
The Creative culture section (page not provided) calls creative culture an “important prerequisite capability to innovate” and says it underpins the firm's dynamic capability to change and adapt. This supports the claim that the cultural dimension is considered a prerequisite for the capacity dimension. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“Literature on BMI with a focus on SMEs is limited and mainly qualitative in nature (Heikkilä et al., 2018), with a lack of studies that focus on how digitalization affects SMEs' BMs.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.4. BMI and innovativeness
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- Partly supportedcites Heikkilä et al., 2018 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction says few studies have focused specifically on SMEs’ business models, and the Discussion says most existing BMI literature focuses on large corporations. The paper uses qualitative analysis for its own study (Section 3.2), but the passages do not establish that the SME-focused literature is mainly qualitative. The separate digitalization clause follows the citation and is not attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“The market share of a SME or start-up can also be positively affected by BM experimentation practices, as a novel BM can recombine existing internal resources or use those of external partners (Zott & Amit, 2007).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.3. Performance antecedents
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- Partly supportedcites Zott & Amit, 2007 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion and Conclusion says firms can innovate by recombining resources they control and by harnessing those of partners, suppliers, and customers. The Abstract reports a positive association between novelty-centered business model design and entrepreneurial-firm performance. But the Dependent Variables section measures performance using stock-market value, not market share, and the paper does not establish an effect of business-model experimentation practices specifically. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“We follow the conceptualization by Venkatraman and Ramanujam's (1986) that business performance constitutes of financial performance (e.g., sales growth, profitability, market value) and operational performance (e.g., market share, product quality).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 4.2. Development of the measurement model
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- Supportedcites Venkatraman and Ramanujam's (1986) source
In “Alternate Approaches for the Measurement of Business Performance” (page not indicated), the paper identifies sales growth, profitability, and stock price as financial indicators, and market share and product quality as operational indicators. Stock price corresponds to the citing sentence’s example of market value. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Berends et al. (2016) defined four elements of BMI: (a) conceptualizing new ideas, (b) creating new BMs, (c) adapting the BM after it is in operation, and (d) experimenting to learn about and validate the model.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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- Supportedcites Berends et al. (2016) source
In Methods > Data analysis (page unavailable), Berends et al. identify four mechanisms for developing and refining new business-model configurations: conceptualization, creation, adaptation, and experimentation. The section defines them in terms that match the citing sentence, though creation is described more precisely as realizing new business-model components rather than necessarily an entire new model. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Solution 2 shows that the presence of BM strategy implementation practices leads to the occurrence of the outcome-increased firm performance; however, from the consistency standpoint, this solution has the lowest value (0.838) of the four configurations obtained.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 6.5. FsQCA results
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“For the rest of the conditions, we can see that none of them exceed the threshold (both their presence as well as their absence), and thus are not necessary for the outcome to occur.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 6.2. Analysis of necessary conditions
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“Solution 3 indicates that the presence of innovativeness and the negation (absence) of BM experimentation practices lead to the outcome of interest.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 6.5. FsQCA results
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“Table 8 shows that there is one condition (BM strategy implementation practices) with consistency value over 0.90, which can therefore be seen as a necessary condition for the outcome to occur.”
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“Mean responses were 6.7, 6.6, and 5.9, respectively, which indicates adequate knowledge levels.”
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“Therefore, strategic decisions on digital transformation do not automatically improve performance, because it requires SMEs to rethink and change their business model (hereinafter BM).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 1. Introduction
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“An IBM CEO study reported that CEOs from top firms acknowledge the impact of BMI on the operation margin growth of their firms (Pohle & Chapman, 2006).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.3. Performance antecedents
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“Even failing BMI experimentation activities provide lessons on what works and can thus not only contribute to finding successful BMs (Chesbrough, 2010;McGrath, 2010), but also to the capacity to innovate of the firm.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.2. BM strategy implementation practices
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“The large number of new opportunities driven by digitalization put pressure on SMEs to reconsider their current BMs or critically reflect on their current strategy in order to identify new business opportunities (Kiel, Arnold, Collisi, & Voigt, 2016, p. 675).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 1. Introduction
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“in contrast to regression analysis that assess the net effects of antecedents, fsQCA allows uncovering how combinations of causal measures lead to the outcome of interest (i.e., causal complexity)”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 1. Introduction
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“BM experimentation literature, on the other hand, focuses largely on descriptive process theory and does not typically make assertions about performance implications.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3. Hypothesis development
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“Consequently, what role BM experimentation practices play in BMI and how BM experimentation affects organizations' performance and innovativeness is still under-researched.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.2. Practices of BMI
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“Moreover, innovativeness is a multidimensional concept (Lee & O'Connor, 2003;Siguaw, Simpson & Enz, 2006).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.4. BMI and innovativeness
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“It may be clear that without financial and human resources, BM experimentation projects have only limited impact.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.1. Resources for BM experimentation
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“Most scholars argue that BMs should be a strategy implementation (Al-Debei & Avison, 2010;Cortimiglia, Ghezzi, & Frank, 2016).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.2. Practices of BMI
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“By innovating their BMs, firms can also gain competitive advantage, as BMs might be hard to replicate, thus resulting in firms' continued profitability (Chesbrough, 2006).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.3. Performance antecedents
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“as regression-based analyses can only uncover necessary conditions that are linearly related to the outcome variable of interest, fsQCA allows a finer grained understanding of the causal mechanisms by adopting a complex causality perspective.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 1. Introduction
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“Consistent with this view of BMs as snapshot materializations of a strategy, a change in strategy will trigger BM experimentation.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.2. Practices of BMI
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“The relationship between BMs and strategy has long been debated (Hedman & Kalling, 2003;Seddon, Lewis, Freeman, & Shanks, 2004).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.2. Practices of BMI
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“This capacity drives firms to improve continuously and, thus, results in improved business performance.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.3. Performance antecedents
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“In that sense, experimentation is an intermediate step towards realizing a new BM that is in line with a firm's new strategy (Hayashi, 2009;McGrath, 2010;Sosna et al., 2010).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.2. Practices of BMI
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“This implies that, if companies have more resources available for innovation-related activities, the company will increase its capacity to innovate.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 3.1. Resources for BM experimentation
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“Overall, most BM experimentation studies develop descriptive process theories rather than explanatory variance theories.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 2.2. Practices of BMI
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“While some of these conceptualizations are congruent, considerable differences emerge as well.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“Moreover, a final check on translations and consistency between the different language versions was done by a professional research agency.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 4.1. Survey administration, sample, and data collection
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“A final limitation, as in any cross-sectional study, is that the direction of causality cannot be inferred from the data alone.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“We show that allocating resources for BM experimentation pays off, as it leads to increased levels of BM experimentation and, indirectly, to higher frim performance.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“We are aware that there is also a reverse causality, as more innovative firms have faster innovation cycles, which fosters their processes of BMI (Vazquez, Santos & Alvarez, 2001).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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- Not matchedcites Vazquez, Santos & Alvarez, 2001
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“We specifically focused on firms that are knowingly or unknowingly engaged in BMI.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“In addition, some of the measurement items used in this paper were based on subjective judgments; connecting these subjective judgments with actual performance data would be interesting, however, this is not possible due to European rules in relation to research ethics and informed consent.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“Through an extensive case study, Sosna, Trevinyo-Rodriguez, and Velamuri (2010) found that the exploration phase of BMI consists of initial designs and trial-and-error improvements, which may last for several years before leading to sustained change in the BM.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“the results show that firms can improve their performance through (a) allocating more resources for BM experimentation and (b) enhancing their capacity to innovate either by increasing the number of innovation or spending more time for innovation.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 7. Discussion
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“We are aware that innovativeness may lead to new (technological) innovations which in turn require changes in BMs (Giesen et al., 2010;Calia, Guerrini & Moura, 2007).”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“Achtenhagen, Melin, and Naldi (2013) concluded, through inductive research, that BM experimentation comprises three activities: (a) retrieving information about the environment, (b) encouraging new ideas, and (c) learning from mistakes.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“Our results are not only consistent with previous findings (e.g., Chesbrough, 2010;Kraus, Brem, Schüssler, Schüssler, & Niemand, 2017;Trimi & Berbegal-Mirabent, 2012) showing that innovation is a key success factor for the firm performance, and that BMI is a vehicle for the firm transformation, but also confirm earlier Zott's et al. (2011) finding that argue BMI is the key to firm performance.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 7. Discussion
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“Huang et al. (2012) used a list of components as indicators.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“On the one hand, the PLS-SEM study suggests that spending time and resources on BM experimentation and strategy implementation both contribute to overall firm performance, mediated by higher levels of innovativeness and BM experimentation practices.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“In addition, this study was conducted in Europe, in many different languages, and with cultural and economic differences despite the context of a common market.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“Cavalcante (2013) distinguishes experimentation from learning, defining BM experimentation as researching technical challenges and performing new practices, and BM learning as acquiring new knowledge, discussing new ideas, and contacting and interacting with others, for example, new business partners.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“We ensured content validity by discussing the items in a team of BM researchers from different universities and by pretesting them with independent academic experts and business managers.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 4.2. Development of the measurement model
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“Specifically, the fsQCA results suggest that there are different ways to boost performance and that higher performing firms either choose to spend their efforts on BM experimentation or on strategy implementation.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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- Rests on an assumption: The 321 European SMEs studied are representative of SMEs engaged in digital transformation, so that the findings generalize to that population.
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“In order to detect potential problems (e.g., ambiguous expressions) and cultural issues, back-translation of the questionnaire into English was performed to ensure that translation did not introduce any bias in the measures.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 4.1. Survey administration, sample, and data collection
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“The questionnaire was iterated and pretested, reading it aloud to managers and academics to improve the clarity of questions.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 4.1. Survey administration, sample, and data collection
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“Research on BM experimentation is scarce.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“Recently,Clauss (2017) andSpieth and Schneider (2016) made valuable contributions in the form of validated scales to measure BMI.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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- Not matchedcites Clauss (2017)
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“This paper is a first to position BMI within a context of digitalization.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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“The questionnaire was pretested in every one of the 12 (the aforementioned 11 countries and Austria) countries.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 4.1. Survey administration, sample, and data collection
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“Our paper is among the first to show the performance implications of conducting BM experimentation and strategy implementation.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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- Rests on an assumption: The 321 European SMEs studied are representative of SMEs engaged in digital transformation, so that the findings generalize to that population.
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“To ensure the validity of responses, the questionnaire starts by asking whether the company changed its BM in the past 24 months.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 4.1. Survey administration, sample, and data collection
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“Souto (2015) used an unspecified two-item scale.”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Souto (2015) source
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The authors state this as an assumption.
Dedicating resources to a specific task enables increased activity on that task.
“We assume that dedicating resources to a specific task enables increased activity on that task.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Experimentation leads to learning.
“Assuming that experimentation leads to learning, there is hence a conceptual link between the learning dimension of innovativeness and the act of experimentation within BMI (Chesbrough, 2010;Teece, 2010).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Realizing a BM innovation requires allocating resources.
“In order to realize a BM innovation, resources have to be allocated; therefore, we focus on resources for BM experimentation as an explanatory factor.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
There can be many pathways to the same outcome (equifinality).
“First, fsQCA assumes that there can be many pathways to the same outcome (referred to as equifinalityfoot_3 ).”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Each pathway can contain different combinations of conditions, and the effect of combinations of necessary and sufficient conditions is sought rather than the net effect of each individual condition.
“Second, it assumes each pathway can contain different combinations of conditions, thus seeking for the effect of combinations (also known as configurations) of necessary and sufficient conditions, rather than seeking for the net effect of each individual condition with the same importance.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The 321 European SMEs studied are representative of SMEs engaged in digital transformation, so that the findings generalize to that population.
“This was analysed in the context of 321 European SEMs firms' experimenting with their BMI during the last 12 months.”
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“Empirical studies have confirmed a positive correlation between digital maturity and competitive performance in SMEs (Bouwman et al., 2019).”
From Digital transformation: a comparative analysis of SME digital maturity models (2025) · cites this paper as Bouwman et al., 2019
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§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
“| BM strategy implementation practices | 0.919 (0.425) | 0.738 (0.814) |”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 8. Conclusions, limitations, and future work
“| BM strategy implementation practices | | • | | | | BM experimentation practices | | | ○ | • | | Innovativeness | | | • | ○ | | Raw coverage | 0.608 | 0.919 | 0.674 | 0.595 | | Unique coverage | 0.007 | 0.101 | 0.010 | 0.003 | | Consistency | 0.882 | 0.838 | 0.911 | 0.930 |”
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§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 5.2. Mediation effect
“the results show that there is no significant direct relationship between BM strategy implementation practices and overall firm performance”
§ How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs? > 5.2. Mediation effect
“BM experimentation practices partially mediates the relationship between BM strategy implementation practices and the overall firm performance (β = 0.04, t = 2.044, p < .03),as there is a significant direct relationship in this path.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bouwman, H., Nikou, S., & de Reuver, M.
- Affiliations
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
- Åbo Akademi University (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Nikou, Shahrokh
- Venue
- Telecommunications Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-10
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 101828
- ISSN
- 0308-5961 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2945158447
- Semantic Scholar
- 88cf73495bccd7fc6c14dc174952df86312ed0fb
- Cited by
- 653
- References
- 131
- Citations by year
- 2026: 62 · 2025: 119 · 2024: 153 · 2023: 128 · 2022: 93 · 2021: 61 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 80.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.abo.fi
- Locations
- Telecommunications Policy (publishedVersion)
- Åbo Akademi University Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission (645791, HORIZON2020)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Digital Innovation in Industries
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Business Strategies and Innovation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Keywords
- digital transformation, business model innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises, firm performance, strategy implementation, resource allocation, equifinality, social media, big data, information technology, business model experimentation
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