English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

This paper proposes a new model of the fundamental makeup of the firm. The model is a typology of the firm as conduit versus content. Firms are classified in this model by their function in the marketplace and the contributions they bring to their environment. The firm as conduit has a function of intervening in a market transaction as a go-between or facilitator. The firm as content has a function as a provider of its outputs to the market. The CVC model also describes the strategic competitiveness of the firm as CVC, and the differences between how the firm as conduit conjures its attributes into a competitive architecture, versus how the firm as content behaves. The unique contributions of the CVC model to the strategy and organisational analyses are described. Examples of the explanatory power of the CVC model are given in the case of the Uber transportation company, and in the case of the failed merger between AOL and Time-Warner. Further research is suggested to empirically test the CVC model, and the paper concludes with the potential applications of the model in a variety of sectors and industries, including the area of technology management.

Conduit versus content: a model of the firm's market involvement and organisational competitiveness