Understanding the influence of absorptive capacity and ambidexterity on the process of business model change - the case of on-premise and cloud-computing software

• Published in: Information systems journal (Oxford, England) Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 477 - 517
• Main Authors: Kranz, Johann J., Hanelt, André, Kolbe, Lutz M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Absorptive capacity; Absorptivity; Analysis; Business; business model change; Business models; Cloud computing; Computer programs; Disruptive innovation; Dynamics; Emergence; Incumbency; Information systems; organisational ambidexterity; Organization theory; Software; Software as a Service; Software industry; Software services; Studies; Technological change

The increasing popularity of Software as a Service has strongly affected the established business model of on‐premise enterprise software. Software as a Service has distinctive characteristics of disruptive innovations that typically create several difficulties for incumbent firms, in particular wit...