The process of change in at least one of the components of a company’s business model to enable the necessary response by the company in face of strategic problems caused by external pressures—challenges, such as technological change, competitive forces, public acceptance, changes in customer demand, changes in the social environment, and changes in the legal environment.
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How Multinational Companies Create and Capture Value From Innovation Through Business Model Dynamics
Mariane Figueira (University of Lavras, Brazil), Annika Rickne (Linköping University, Sweden), and Joel Yutaka Sugano (University of Lavras, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7265-7.ch025
Abstract
Willing to answer to the research question of how multinational companies succeed in creating and capturing value from a new technology, this chapter aimed at filling the gaps in the existing literature with regards to defining business model dynamics and demonstrating business model dynamics in practice. Through a case study of Monsanto, and of the way the company's subsidiary managed to successfully adapt and innovate in Brazil, this chapter showed that external pressures such as new technology, the need to respond to the customers' demand for information concerning the company's new value proposition, existing regulation (among other external pressures) forced the multinational company to implement changes and create new elements in some of the business model components. Results also showed that to capture part of the value created with a new technology it might be necessary to complete business model design and evaluation with the analysis of the external environment.