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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. The Business Model Concept

Author : Bernd W. Wirtz

Published in: Business Model Management

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Abstract

The term “business model” has a long tradition in management theory, although the modern business model concept took a long time to develop. Hence, before analyzing business models as a management concept, we need to investigate the origin of the term business model because in early academic publications a wide variety of interpretations can be found.

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Metadata
Title
The Business Model Concept
Author
Bernd W. Wirtz
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Business Model Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-48016-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-48017-2

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48017-2_2