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Learning while (re)configuring: Business model innovation processes in established firms
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This study addresses the question of how established organizations develop new business models over time, using a process research approach to trace how four business model innovation trajectories unfold. With organizational learning as analytical lens, we discern two process patterns: "drifting" starts with an emphasis on experiential learning and shifts later to cognitive search; "leaping," in contrast, starts with an emphasis on cognitive search and shifts later to experiential learning. Both drifting and leaping can result in radical business model innovations, while their occurrence depends on whether a new business model takes off from an existing model and when it goes into operation. We discuss the implications of these findings for theory on business models and organizational learning.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Berends, H., Smits, A., Reymen, I., & Podoynitsyna, K.
- Affiliations
- Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Berends, Hans
- Venue
- Strategic Organization
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-02-28
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 181-219
- ISSN
- 1476-1270 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-315X
- PMC
- PMC5447949
- OpenAlex
- W2313929078
- Cited by
- 274
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 50 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 12
- FWCI
- 42.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- Locations
- Strategic Organization (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
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- Funders
- University of Liverpool
- European Regional Development Fund
- Interreg
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Business Strategies and Innovation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Keywords
- business model innovation, organizational learning, experiential learning, cognitive search, incumbent firms, innovation pathways, radical innovation, business model development, organizational change
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