DP2003/40 Stéphane Gagnon:
E-business Model Innovation and Capability
Building (PDF 307KB)
April 2003
A firm’s business model describes the way in which it creates, delivers, and
appropriates value. In the debate about the ongoing demise of several e-commerce
ventures, only a few analysts have looked at the relative sanity of innovative e-business
Models, relying mostly on static environmental variables and the inherent economic
logic of each industry. Our study sheds new light on this debate by concentrating on a
set of more complex factors, namely the relative difficulty to build new capabilities,
whether by creating or acquiring them. We interviewed 60 e-commerce ventures
between 2 and 3 years old, both independent and corporate ones, in order to measure
their performance, the innovativeness of their e-business model, their obstacles to
capability building, and their exploitable resource base. By performing cluster,
discriminant, and regression analyses, we demonstrate that a number of typical
obstacles to capability building can significantly affect the relative success or failure of
innovative e-business models, but that a richer resource base may alleviate this
relationship. We end with a discussion of the implications for the e-business model
literature, and point out to some new directions to explain how various e-commerce
firms, whether ‘pure-play’ or ‘click-and-mortar’, can successfully innovate despite
rampant capability building difficulties.
DP2003/22 Birgitte Andersen and Marva Corley:
The Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical
Impact of the Service Economy: A Critical Review (PDF 212KB)
This paper offers a critical review of the conventional economic classification,
measurement and valuation of output, and related performance indicators, for the
service sector. The paper also explores and contrasts long-standing views on the service
knowledge base and service innovations, as well as the global aspects of many services.
A problem arises when historical industrial classification schemes treat services as
being ‘immaterial’ (i.e. everything that is not manufacturing and agriculture), while
ignoring that the activities of services in the economy, as well as the corporate
structures of firms, transcend such classification schemes at any level of aggregation.
Other problems arise when associated traditional analytical methods measure services
input and output and related performance indicators using the same conceptual
framework and indicators as those that are applied for problem solving for agriculture
and manufacturing. Such entanglements have other and wider consequences for
understanding the impact of the new economy and for designing appropriate policy.
DP2003/07 Dietrich Domanski:
Idiosyncratic Risk in the 1990s: Is It an IT
Story? (PDF 255KB)
DP2003/06 Shyamal K. Chowdhury and Susanne Wolf:
Use of ICTs and the Economic Performance of SMEs
in East Africa (PDF
218KB)
DP2002/116 Derrick L. Cogburn:
Emergent Global Information
Infrastructure/Global Information Society (PDF 198KB)
DP2002/115 Sougata Poddar: Network Externality and Software Piracy
(PDF 182KB)
DP2002/111 Jai-Joon Hur, Hwan-Joo Seo and Young Soo Lee:
ICT Diffusion and Skill Upgrading in Korean
Industries (PDF 192KB)
DP2002/108 Kandamuthan Subodh:
Market Concentration, Firm Size and Innovative
Activity: A Firm-level Economic Analysis of Selected Indian Industries
under Economic Liberalization (PDF
242KB)
DP2002/95 Patrice Muller:
Internet Use in Transition Economies: Economic
and Institutional Determinants (PDF
212KB)
DP2002/94 Stijn Claessens, Daniela Kingebiel, and Sergio L.
Schmukler:
Explaining the Migration of Stocks from
Exchanges in Emerging Economies to International Centres (PDF 158KB)
DP2002/92 Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés López:
The Software and Information Services Sector in
Argentina: Pros and Cons of an Inward-Orientated Development
Strategy (PDF 219KB)
DP2002/90 Danny Cassimon and Peter-Jan Engelen:
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Optimal
Financial Architecture for New Economy Firms in Developing
Countries (PDF 131KB)
DP2002/89 Christopher Forman:
The Corporate Digital Divide: Determinants of
Internet Adoption (PDF
144KB)
DP2002/88 Youngsoo Lee, Jeonghun Oh, and Hwanjoo Seo:
Digital Divideand Growth Gap: A Cumulative
Relationship (PDF 194KB)
DP2002/84 Albertus Aochamub, Daniel Motinga, and Christoph Stork:
Economic Development Potential through IP
Telephony for Namibia (PDF
733KB)
DP2002/83 Samia Satti O. M. Nour:
ICT Opportunities and Challenges for
Development in the Arab World (PDF
167KB)
DP2002/79 Sagren Moodley:
Competing in the Digital Economy?: The Dynamics
and Impacts of B2B E-commerce on the South African Manufacturing
Sector (PDF 321KB)
DP2002/78 K. J. Joseph:
Growth of ICT and ICT for Development: Realities
of the Myths of the Indian Experience (PDF
409KB)
DP2002/77 Mina N. Baliamoune:
The New Economy and Developing Countries:
Assessing the Role of ICT Diffusion (PDF
292KB)
DP2002/76 T. A. Bhavani:
Impact of Technology on the Competitiveness of
the Indian Small Manufacturing Sector: A Case Study of the Automotive
Component Industry (PDF
398KB)
DP2002/75 Charles Kenny:
The Internet and Economic Growth in Least
Developed Countries (PDF
250KB)
DP2002/74 George R. G. Clarke:
Does Internet Connectivity Affect Export
Performance? Evidence from Transition Economies (PDF 85KB)
DP2002/73 Sandeep Kapur:
Developing Countries in the New Economy: The Role
of Demand-side Initiatives (PDF
178KB)
DP2002/72 Steve Onyeiwu:
Inter-Country Variations in Digital Technology
in Africa: Evidence, Determinants, and Policy Applications (PDF 296KB)
DP2002/70 Francesco Daveri:
The New Economy in Europe, 1992-2001 (PDF 107KB)
DP2002/69 Poh-Kam Wong and Zi-Lin He:
The Impacts of Knowledge Interaction with
Manufacturing Clients on KIBS Firms Innovation Behaviour (PDF 240KB)
