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JOEBM 2023 Vol.11(4): 157-168
DOI: 10.18178/joebm.2023.11.4.754

Business Model Research in the Age of Digitalization—A Systematic Literature Research for the Derivation of a Taxonomy of Business Models in the Manufacturing Industry

Abstract—Advancing digitalization and its impact on business models leads to various streams in research that emerge in parallel and provide different explanatory and systematization approaches of digital business models. The large number of contributions induces fragmented concepts and unclear terminologies. In particular, most existing conceptualizations neglect the examination of the business model concept taking into consideration the advancing digitalization, especially in the manufacturing industry, or only consider domain-specific aspects. Therefore, there is a lack of systematic approaches to structure the research area. This unclear understanding of the terminology leads to challenges in practice. In addition, in most cases, companies have only fuzzy ideas of what characterizes business model innovation in the digital age and which element form a digital business models. Thus, the following contribution is devoted to a systemization of the questioned research field in order to enable further research initiatives and to support companies to develop digital business models.

Index Terms—Digital business model, manufacturing industry, business model innovation, digitalization, taxonomy

M. Riesener, M. Kuhn, S. Schümmelfeder, and G. Schuh are with the Laboratory of Machine and Tools and Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
*Correspondence: s.schuemmelfeder@wzl.rwth-aachen.de (S.S.)

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Cite:M. Riesener, M. Kuhn, S. Schümmelfeder, and G. Schuh, "Business Model Research in the Age of Digitalization—A Systematic Literature Research for the Derivation of a Taxonomy of Business Models in the Manufacturing Industry," Journal of Economics, Business and Management vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 157-168, 2023.

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