What We Do

About the Association

The Business Model Association (BMA) is an academic society dedicated to the study of business models — advancing case-based empirical research, conceptual proposals, and scholarly exchange among its members.

The urgent task facing Japanese enterprises today is to evolve into 21st-century enterprises. The entire enterprise environment—markets, competition, finance, technology, society, and human beings—is undergoing major change.

Under these circumstances, the Business Model Association (BMA) comes into being as an organization that deepens its understanding of the present and near-future environment and, without being bound by the various circumstances of the status quo, conducts in-depth research into bold yet realistic business models for 21st-century Japanese enterprises.

Full-fledged research on business models has only just begun. The Association is expected to demonstrate its value as a place for the exchange of knowledge among its members, through empirical research based on case studies, conceptual proposals, and discussions concerning the applied technologies of business models and business model patents, and the like.

The business model of a scholarly association must also change with the times. The Association itself is a proposal for such a new business model.

The Association deploys all of its activities over the network and is a knowledge management mechanism existing in cyberspace. By conducting all discussions, research presentations, paper presentations, and association management meetings on the Web and on the mailing list, members can take part in the Association’s activities anytime and from anywhere. That is, even amid their busy activities, members can receive the provision of intellectual services such as research presentation, searching for presented papers, and the exchange of knowledge among members. In addition, by making use of the network, the costs of running the Association are reduced, thereby minimizing the burden on members. Accordingly, busy front-line researchers, consultants, businessmen, and students can participate broadly.

We hope that this Association will develop as a new community of intellectual professionals and become a place for members’ self-cultivation and self-realization.

October 1, 2000 — The Founding Members

Organization

Board & Officers

Honorary Chairman

President & Chairman of the Board

Directors

Secretary General

Auditor

Principals (Executive Officers)

Paper Committee