Business Model: Proposition of Business Model Concept and Habitually Exploited Building Blocks, 1996-2010

This study is reporting on a search of scholarly literature for the period 1996 to 2010. The research identified sixty-two research papers using the business model frameworks. These papers were analyzed according to the research fields in which the studies were published, the industries involved, and the focus of the studies. The contribution of this paper is to identify and organize business model studies in such a way that these studies prove relevant to other management research.