Sabaruddin, La Ode, MacBryde, Jillian Catherine orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-6989 and D'Ippolito, Beatrice orcid.org/0000-0003-0778-4373 (2023) The dark side of business model innovation. International Journal of Management Reviews. pp. 130-151. ISSN 1468-2370
Abstract
Existing literature has tended to focus on the positive benefits and outcomes of business model innovation (BMI), despite emerging evidence that BMI can also have a dark side - with negative consequences. We systematically review the existing BMI literature, articulating it around three clusters of negative consequences: those affecting the firm as an entity; those affecting the firm’s stakeholders; and those that are specific or context-dependent. In a similar fashion, we identify the driving factors and circumstances leading to these negative consequences and group them into four clusters: (1) managerial choices and the processes; and three underpinning circumstances that influence such choices or processes: (2) trade-offs between the new and current business models; (3) managers’ ability to manage BMI; and (4) context within which BMI is situated. The paper provides the first attempt to gather prior research on the phenomenon and thereby develop a conceptual understanding of the dark side of BMI. Furthermore, by proposing a model that explains how the dark side of BMI may occur, we inform ongoing debates on the theorisation of the consequences that may derive from BMI and how these can be managed to support firms’ innovative growth, arguing how the disruptive innovation literature can only partially explain the phenomenon. Second, our model provides important foundations to further distil the complex link between BMI and performance. Finally, we suggest a number of future research avenues, accounting for different dimensions of the phenomenon.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2022 09:40 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2025 23:24 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12309 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ijmr.12309 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188774 |
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