The business model concept is widely used by practicing entrepreneurs and scholarly research on the business model concept has made contributions to the management literature. This essay links the business model literature to the growing work on the individual–opportunity nexus—which is a developing scholarly framework in entrepreneurship. Three potential linkages of overlapping research are discussed including research on the development of entrepreneurial taxonomies and conjecture formation.
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