Business models innovation in investment banks: A resilience perspective

Ramdani, Boumediene; Binsaif, Ahmed; Boukrami, Elias; Guermat, Cherif

Abstract

© 2020, The Author(s). Firms frequently change their business models in order to respond to internal and external challenges. This study aims to explore how investments banks adjust their business models in response to internal and external challenges. Based on a qualitative data from ten major investment banks operating in the largest financial market in the Middle East, we show that investment banks can achieve resilience by adjusting their business models through continuous activity changes in response to internal and external challenges. Specifically, investment banks adjust their business models through deploying alternative combinations of activities from a broad repertoire of activities. Within the same bank, divisions that respond to external challenges tend to sustain their performance, whereas resilient divisions that respond to both internal and external challenges tend to bounce back or achieve substantial increase in performance levels. This study contributes to the literature by proposing resilience as an alternative approach to business model innovation and by providing insight into how firms adjust their business models by altering specific activities in response to both internal and external challenges.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 18, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jun 17, 2020
• Publication Date: 2022-03
• Deposit Date: May 29, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 18, 2022
• Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Management
• Print ISSN: 0217-4561
• Electronic ISSN: 1572-9958
• Publisher: Springer (part of Springer Nature)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 39
• Pages: 51–78
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-020-09723-z
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6001021
• Publisher URL: https://www.springer.com/journal/10490