Case Studies in Business Model Innovation : A Systematic Literature Network Analysis

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Buck, Christoph ; Eder, David ; Brügmann, Jonas:
Case Studies in Business Model Innovation : A Systematic Literature Network Analysis.
In: International Journal of Business Environment. Vol. 12 (2021) Issue 4 . - pp. 301-320.
ISSN 1740-0589
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBE.2021.118538

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In today’s society, the changes made by digitization are noticeable in all areas. Companies in every industry and of every size are increasingly confronted with the potential for change that digitization offers. Changing customer interests, technological innovations, and disappearing market boundaries are disrupting entire industries. Increasingly, scientific research is examining the opportunities, obstacles, and effects of digitization on business models based on case study research. However, this relevant field of research faces numerous challenges due to the interface of the research domains. This paper aims to answer the question of how the landscape of case study research in IS and management research is structured on the intersection of digitization and business model innovation. Therefore, we conduct a citation network analysis of case studies in this field, which we identified through a systematic literature review. We identify both the central theoretical findings on business model innovation and the fundamental works on the case study research method. Our results reveal four relevant literature clusters, which describe central research work and provide a valuable basis for future research. In this way, we enable future research to place its contribution both theoretically in the existing research landscape and to ensure a high methodological quality of the research.