Fierce competition in electronic commerce, especially Business-to-Customer (B2C) in mainland China, has fostered the need of research on business model. This paper is to rule out the research line on B2C business model. For static model, three phases, conceptualization, elementalization, and modeling of Business Models, are abstracted. The dynamic evolution of business model research and the introduction of system dynamics in the field of business model research are discussed in particular in the paper, including several mainstream models, such as EBMO, e3-value, and business model canvas, are selectively analyzed. On the basic of that, B2C e-commerce business shows its distinct characteristics. The paper concludes that next stage of the research will focus on quantitative analysis and dynamic model.
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