Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/318987 
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Year of Publication: 
2022
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[Journal:] Journal of Business Models (JOBM) [ISSN:] 2246-2465 [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 95-109
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Aalborg University Open Publishing, Aalborg
Abstract: 
Purpose: Develop a method for an extended "fore-and-aft" use of business models. The method will turn them also into potent business history tools, in addition to being valuable forward planning instruments. Approach: Business models can be used to understand organizations by studying them as "snapshots" at any given time or accounting for their evolution by comparing their past successive forms on a temporal axis. The paper proposes a method of evolutionary analysis, which, by following a historical institutionalism approach, identifies "critical junctures", organizational change and business model revisions. The evolution of organisations can be deciphered by comparing the business models at these "critical junctures". Findings: The method has been tested in two international financial institutions. Value: There is no similar approach and use of business models. The method can serve scholarly purposes and business applications.
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business model
business history
multilateral banks
non-profit-making organizations
organizational studies
historical institutionalism
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