Przeglądaj Business Model Innovation - A Concept Between Organizational Renewal and Industry Transformation, 2015, vol. 11, issue 1 wg Autor "Harima, Aki"
(Nowy Sacz School of Business – National-Louis University, 2015) Harima, Aki; Vemuri, Sivaram
This paper explores how diasporans achieve business model innovation by using
their unique resources. The hypothesis underlying the paper is that the unique
backgrounds and resources of the diaspora businesses, due to different sources of
information and experiences as well as multiple networks, contributes to business
model innovation in a distinctive manner. We investigate the English school market in
the Philippines which is established by East Asian diaspora who innovate a business
model of conventional English schools. Two case studies were conducted with
Japanese diaspora English schools. Their business is analyzed using a business model
canvas (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010) and contrasted with the conventional business
model. The empirical cases show that diaspora businesses use knowledge about their
country of origin and engage with country of residence and multiple networks in
different locations and constellations to identify unique opportunities, leading to a
business model innovation.