Virtual Business Models: Entrepreneurial Risks and Rewards

By Eskil Soderlind, Karin Bryder, Anki Malmborg-Hager, et al.

Virtual Business Models: Entrepreneurial Risks and Rewards focuses on companies with technology development, offering inspiration, guidance, and hands-on advice on how to utilize the potential of a virtual company format. The book provides an overview of key aspects of the company's activities, putting them into a comprehensive structure. In addition, both the rewards and risks of using the virtual company format are explored. The virtual company format is here defined as a company with a small dedicated core staff. The company's development is performed by strategic alliances with external resource providers. In this way, the utilization of financial resources can be optimized with cost-effective product development. The book explores this concept and why it is attractive in a start-up phase for both companies who want to remain virtual and those that eventually want to develop into integrated traditional companies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 008100141X
• ISBN13: 9780081001417
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"