Rhetoric Versus Real Commitment: Are Sustainability Issues Integrated in Business Model Disclosure? An Analysis of Extractive Industries in the UK

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Giunta ◽  
Laura Bini ◽  
Marco Bellucci
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Extractive Industries ◽  
The Uk

Integrating sustainability in business model disclosure: Evidence from the UK mining industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 1161-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bini ◽  
Marco Bellucci ◽  
Francesco Giunta
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Content online and the end of public media? The UK, a canary in the coal mine?

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1202-1219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Collins
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Direct Payment ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Pervasive Access

Online delivery of content has changed media advertising markets, undermining the business model which has underpinned provision of ‘public media’. Three business models have sustained mass media: direct payment for content, payment for advertising and state subsidy, and the author argues, contrary to others’ claims, that advertising finance has made possible production and provision of high-quality, pluralistic and affordable public media. In consequence, substitution of the internet as an advertising medium has undermined the system of finance which, in the UK and societies like it, sustained public media. Global advertising revenues have both fallen and been redistributed, though to differing degrees in different countries, with particularly deleterious effects on local newspapers. Prices have risen, original content production has fallen and reversion to a direct payment-for-content business model is pervasive. And this despite the growth of new entrant online media and established publicly funded media (notably public service broadcasters) resulting in the likelihood of a continued general worsening of affordable and pervasive access to high-quality and diverse public media.

A Prototype E-Business Model to Create a Competitive Advantage in SMEs

2009 ◽  
pp. 1853-1869
Author(s):  
S. Pavic ◽  
M. Simpson ◽  
S. C. Lenny Koh
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

This study explores new ways for SMEs to create a competitive advantage through the use of e-business. It examines the level of ICT use in SMEs and identifies the drivers and barriers which owners/managers face in adopting e-business. Furthermore, it explores the degree of awareness amongst SMEs of the opportunities available to them for developing their employees, their business strategies, and their attitudes toward the range of initiatives and options, on the use of e-business. Industry behaviour and organisational culture in relation to the creation of competitive advantage through e-business also are explored. Case studies and literature review are used to collect information from and about SMEs in the UK. The results of these are employed to propose a prototype business model, named CATE-b – “Competitive Advantage Through e-business.”

A Prototype E-Business Model to Create a Competitive Advantage in SMEs

2011 ◽  
pp. 238-260
Author(s):  
S. Pavic ◽  
M. Simpson ◽  
S. C.L. Koh
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

This study explores new ways for SMEs to create a competitive advantage through the use of e-business. It examines the level of ICT use in SMEs and identifies the drivers and barriers which owners/managers face in adopting e-business. Furthermore, it explores the degree of awareness amongst SMEs of the opportunities available to them for developing their employees, their business strategies, and their attitudes toward the range of initiatives and options, on the use of e-business. Industry behaviour and organisational culture in relation to the creation of competitive advantage through e-business also are explored. Case studies and literature review are used to collect information from and about SMEs in the UK. The results of these are employed to propose a prototype business model, named CATE-b – “Competitive Advantage Through e-business.”

Facebook’s business model set to withstand exposé

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Children’S Wellbeing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Model Set ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Harmful Effects

Significance This followed the Senate testimony of former Facebook employee and whistle-blower Frances Haugen that the company puts "profits over people". Her critical testimony about the social media giant's alleged harmful effects on democracy and disregard for children’s wellbeing is again raising hopes among the company's critics that Congress will rein it in. Impacts Haugen's forthcoming testimony to the UK parliament and possibly the European Parliament will intensify international pressure on Facebook. Tighter supervision over big tech will be limited by trade-offs between innovation and consumer and societal protections. Facebook may yet revive its Instagram for Kids project.

scholarly journals The promise and perils of alternative market-based finance: the case of P2P lending in the UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Bavoso
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Financial Intermediation ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
The Real ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
P2p Lending ◽  
Progressive Growth ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Start Ups

AbstractThe collapse of the global financial industry in 2008 and the subsequent decay of most Western economies into a period of prolonged economic stagnation have represented a springboard for the progressive growth of alternative channels of financial intermediation. The reluctance and inability of mainstream banks in the post-crisis years to provide credit facilities to the real economy, most critically to start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises, propelled the latest wave of financial innovation, this time under the guise of FinTech. Much has been written on the rise of FinTech in recent years, but there is still insufficient clarity about the benefits that this phenomenon is bringing to the real economy and the potential risks that can arise from its growth. This paper maps the development of FinTech lending platforms in the UK and reconceptualises the rationale for their growth. In doing that, this study focuses on the structure and operation of the main UK platforms, recognising that while some are effectively banks that adopt a technology-based business model, many platforms operate under the P2P business model. The question then is to assess the policy and regulatory approach that is relevant to UK P2P platforms. Interestingly, the emergence of P2P securitisation raises a number of regulatory and policy questions, because longer intermediation chains typical of securitisation may well defy the social and economic purposes under which the idea of P2P developed. Furthermore, questions of systemic risk inevitably resurface in these types of transactions. Ensuing problems related to the best way to regulate these new channels of financial intermediation lead to critically evaluate the initiatives launched by the UK FCA, initially under the Innovation Hub, and more recently under the consultation for a new regulatory framework.

scholarly journals How leaders manage their business models using information

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Parnell ◽  
Merlin Stone ◽  
Eleni Aravopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Sector Decision ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Current Business

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the information leaders keep their organisations competitive by determining if their business model is under threat and/or needs changing and whether business model innovation is needed. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a grounded theory approach to probe an area which has been so far researched very little. Findings The paper identifies that while quality of management information affects leaders’ decisions about whether their business model is under threat or needs changing, leaders may or may not choose to use it. Research limitations/implications The research was carried out with large firms in six sectors in the UK. Research in other sectors, in smaller firms and in other countries, should be carried out to test generalisability. Practical implications Although many large firms have made very large investments into areas such as customer insight in the past few years, there may be resistance to using this information even if it indicates that a firm’s current business model is under threat, because of straightforward denial or because of the inertia associated with factors such as difficulties in changing business models or the extent to which the firm’s financial situation is based upon exploiting its current business model, no matter how much that model is under threat from firms with other business models. Therefore, in strategic reviews, firms should factor in these risks and seek to mitigate them. Social implications In public sector organisations, these risks of denial or inertia may be stronger because of conservatism and lack of willingness to take the risks of change, so public sector decision makers need to be particularly aware of these risks and seek to mitigate them. Originality/value The theoretical contribution of this research is to add to business model and strategic management literature by explaining the role that information plays in business model choice and how its role depends on whether and how the information is used by senior management.

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