...Mariana Guadalupe Vázquez-Pacho; Marielle A. Payaud Purpose This article examines the strategic actions of multinational corporations (MNCs) in creating social value at the base of the pyramid (BoP), providing insights into novel business models (BMs) and tactics employed for poverty alleviation...

...Amel Attour and Thierry Burger-Helmchen; Adnane Kendel; Nathalie Lazaric Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study business models (BMs) for smart meters (SMs) and discuss related issues in the French institutional context. Because SM introduce deregulation on both the demand and supply...

...Arash Najmaei; Jo Rhodes; Peter Lok Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and explain how market and technological knowledge gained by executives interact in a complementary fashion to form the knowledge structure of their business model which in turn enable them to make sense...

...Bert Spector Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the intra‐firm dynamics of business model enactment, paying particular attention to the social context in which that enactment occurs. Design/methodology/approach The article develops its hypotheses from qualitative case studies...