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Exploring evolution and emerging trends in business model study: a co-citation analysis

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This paper is an early attempt of using co-citation analysis to sort out and to analyze the development and evolution of a latest hot area, business model. A dataset of 1498 records published between 1995 and 2015 is collected from Web of Science database. The empirical results show the latest hot topics in the business model study focus on business model innovation and value creation. In addition, technology oriented articles and strategy oriented articles provide some of the main perspectives of business model study. The conclusions and implications of business model in this paper will be particularly illuminating for both academic research and enterprises’ practice application.

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The authors are listed in alphabetical order. Han Qiao is the corresponding author and each author contributed equally to this article. This research has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 71373262, 71390330, 71390331), and the Open Project of Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.

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Li, X., Qiao, H. & Wang, S. Exploring evolution and emerging trends in business model study: a co-citation analysis. Scientometrics 111, 869–887 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2266-5

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