Description
We developed BIZ2BIS (from Business Models to the Blueprint of the Information System), an approach to help design, discuss, and evaluate inter-organizational business models, and also derive high-level requirements for their underlying IS. It consists of an iterative process that involves the various stakeholders in seeking a set of value propositions that ensure that the various elements are willing to participate in a sustained manner, thus ensuring a resilient value network. To conceive BIZ2BIS, we started with an exhaustive literature review on business models, which underlined the importance of their socio-technical nature. To address this dimension, we grounded our approach on the tenets of Actor-Network Theory (ANT). This alternative outlook gave BIZ2BIS the chance to consider the socio technical nature of business models potentiated by ICTs and provided it with distinctive and promising conditions for exploring the interdependency between information systems and the networked business models in which they operate.
Recommended Citation
Costa, Cristina; Costa, Cristina; and Cunha, Paulo, "The social dimension of business models: an Actor-Network Theory perspective" (2015). AMCIS 2015 Proceedings. 25.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/e-Biz/GeneralPresentations/25
The social dimension of business models: an Actor-Network Theory perspective
We developed BIZ2BIS (from Business Models to the Blueprint of the Information System), an approach to help design, discuss, and evaluate inter-organizational business models, and also derive high-level requirements for their underlying IS. It consists of an iterative process that involves the various stakeholders in seeking a set of value propositions that ensure that the various elements are willing to participate in a sustained manner, thus ensuring a resilient value network. To conceive BIZ2BIS, we started with an exhaustive literature review on business models, which underlined the importance of their socio-technical nature. To address this dimension, we grounded our approach on the tenets of Actor-Network Theory (ANT). This alternative outlook gave BIZ2BIS the chance to consider the socio technical nature of business models potentiated by ICTs and provided it with distinctive and promising conditions for exploring the interdependency between information systems and the networked business models in which they operate.