Markets, Business Models And The Growth Of The Firm

The business press is full of examples of how firms use business models to identify and frame or reshape new markets. Yet to-date the understanding of how business models affect market-making has not received much consideration by the marketing literature. This papers sets out to explore the use of business models in market-making through an assimilation of the business model and market-making literatures and the examination of an illustrative case heralded in the media as the 'Way forward for market making' - Nintendo.