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The business model field of research is a young and emerging discipline that finds itself confronted with the need for a common language, lack of conceptual consolidation, and without adequate theoretical development. This not only slows down research, but also undermines business model’s usefulness for research and practice. We offer a new perspective on business modelling to address these issues. It looks at business modelling from the perspective of the Meta-Object Facility, emphasising the role of models and meta-models. From this new perspective, a commonality analysis can identify the important classes in business modelling. This new perspective on business modelling helps to create a common language, achieve conceptual consolidation and supports theory development; it addresses issues that hinder business model research.
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Alberts, B.T., Meertens, L.O., Iacob, ME., Nieuwenhuis, L.(.J.M. (2013). A Meta-Model Perspective on Business Models. In: Shishkov, B. (eds) Business Modeling and Software Design. BMSD 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37478-4_4
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