Comparing business model frameworks

Abstract

The focus in this chapter is primarily on the dimensions and construction of the proposed frameworks of business models (BMs). BM frameworks have been a central part of the business model community's research and discussion for many years. BM frameworks have been paid a great deal of attention in the academic business model community-however, nobody has found the generic BM framework or empirically proved one. The BM Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder (Osterwalder 2011) is still the most well-known BMframework worldwide. But other frameworks have been proposed and new ones are emerging. In this chapter, I try to discuss some of the most well-known BMframeworks and bridge them to each other. The aim is to find BMconstructions and dimensions that everybody seems to acknowledge. I also try to discuss and find those BM dimensions that distinguish BM frameworks from each other, overlap and point to dimensions that seems to be lacking.