Paper Info
Title
Mobile business models: organizational and financial design issues that matter
Abstract
Designing viable mobile services and business models that capture value for all the organizations involved is a challenge. There are many design issues that can be taken into account, and it is often unclear what their ultimate effect is on the performance of a business model. This paper offers a framework for relating critical design issues to success factors and tests the causal relationship between these core concepts in the organizational and financial domain of mobile business models, based on an international survey among 120 practitioners and experts in the mobile Internet services domain, most of them from EU countries. According to our findings, addressing organizational design issues (i.e. partner selection, governance and relation management) leads to an acceptable division of roles among actors, while addressing financial design issues (i.e., pricing, division of investments and costs among partners) results in risk levels that are perceived to be acceptable. The level of profitability that is perceived to be acceptable is influenced indirectly by these design issues, because the relationships are mediated through the risk level that the actors involved perceive to be acceptable and through the way the roles are divided among the actors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s12525-009-0004-4
Electronic Markets
Keywords
Field
DocType
businessmodels.mobile services. success factors jel classification l96.telecommunications,organizational design,profitability,business model
Corporate governance,Economics,Success factors,Mobile business development,Organizational architecture,Knowledge management,Mobile business,Profitability index,Business model,Finance,Critical design,Marketing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
1
1422-8890
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.73
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark De Reuver119128.03
Harry Bouwman284263.98
Timber Haaker318617.05