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Using an innovative price model to leverage the business model – The case of price model innovation in the largest Swedish taxi company

Journal of Business Models

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Title Using an innovative price model to leverage the business model – The case of price model innovation in the largest Swedish taxi company
 
Creator Petri, Carl-Johan
 
Subject Business Models, management accounting
Price models, price model transformation, pricing, taxi, business model
 
Description Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to describe how the biggest Swedish taxi company (Taxi Kurir) developed an innovative price model to leverage the business model. Design/methodology/approach : The empirical data in the article describe Taxi Kurir’s development of a new price model. Data about the Swedish taxi market and about Taxi Kurir has been compiled though interviews and document studies. Detailed information about the background, development and implementation of Taxi Kurir’s new price model has been captured through interviews with representatives from Taxi Kurir. Findings : Based on both the empirical example, and other investigations, we have found that a company can create substantial changes in their price model, by just changing some of its basic characteristics. A well designed price model can contribute to leveraging the intentions of the business model. Practical implications : Most academic and practical texts about business models consider pricing to be an important component. However, they typically do not refer to the specifics of the price- or revenue models. According to the literature review in this paper, and the empirical findings, the configuration of a company’s price model should be aligned with its business model. This will contribute to leveraging the business model. Originality/value: The Swedish taxi market is one of the most deregulated in the world. Differently from most other countries, any individual or company can start and operate a taxi business. This case offers a unique description on how the biggest company in the market responded to the competition by introducing a fundamentally new price model, by making a small change in one of the dimensions in their existing price model.
 
Publisher Aalborg Universitetsforlag
 
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Date 2014-08-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Case study
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOBM/article/view/723
10.5278/ojs.jbm.v2i1.723
 
Source Journal of Business Models; Vol 2, No 1 (2014): Special issue: The business model eruption
2246-2465
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOBM/article/view/723/554
 
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