Business models innovation in investment banks: a resilience perspective

Boumediene Ramdani (), Ahmed Binsaif, Elias Boukrami and Cherif Guermat
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Boumediene Ramdani: Qatar University
Elias Boukrami: Regent’s University London
Cherif Guermat: University of the West of England

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2022, vol. 39, issue 1, No 3, 78 pages

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Business model innovation; Investment banks; Financial services; Resilience; Saudi Arabia; Middle East (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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