A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Design and natural science research on information technology
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on WITS '92
Place to Space: Migrating to Ebusiness Models
Place to Space: Migrating to Ebusiness Models
Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases
Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases
Designing and Evaluating E-Business Models
IEEE Intelligent Systems
A research framework for analysing eBusiness models
European Journal of Information Systems
Business Models in the Software Industry
HICSS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Towards a reference ontology for business models
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
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Research on business models has attracted raising consideration among scientists since the burst of the dot-com bubble. However, knowledge on this domain is still quite fragmented which calls for a clarification and in particular a structured conceptualization. Thus, this paper presents a business model ontology that is based on a literature review contrasting and synthesizing eight existing ontologies and extending this knowledge with current understanding and research progress on business models. For sake of clarity, our developed ontology comprises two levels. While the first level focuses on the surrounding of a business model describing the relationships of a business model to its environment, the second level of detail addresses the actual details of the model -- entities and relationships that constitute a business model. Besides describing the proposed ontology by abstract textual and graphical means, the description is underpinned by illustrative examples.