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Business Model Innovation in the Era of the Internet of Things

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The following chapter outlines the motivation of the research endeavour, followed by concrete research gaps and research questions. Afterwards, the introduction provides an overview of the structure of the book, further elaborates on the research design and anticipated contributions.

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Tesch, J.F. (2019). Introduction. In: Tesch, J. (eds) Business Model Innovation in the Era of the Internet of Things. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98723-1_1

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