Business Models and the Managerial Sensemaking Process

Date
2019-01-27
Authors
Islam, S
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Journal Article
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Wiley
Abstract

This study examines the managerial sensemaking process around business models. Drawing on fieldwork, this study introduces a model to describe how managerial sensemaking occurs around business model development and use. This study shows that managerial sensemaking around business models occurs through a mutually co-constituted process, a separate yet shared process, or a combination of them resulting from an interplay between sensemaking and sensegiving activities. To facilitate their sensemaking around business models, managers draw on several schemas. Over time, some schemas underlying business models remain unchanged, while others change in varying degrees.

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Business models; Sensemaking processes; Sensegiving; Schemas; Cognition
Source
Accounting and Finance, Forthcoming. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12459
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