Why Elsevier’s Outrageous Profit Margins Could Turn Out to Be a Good Thing

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2017-06
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Lewis, David W.
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American English
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The paper argues, using Clayton Christensen's business models theory, that Elsevier's near 40% profit margins will limit the responses Elsevier can make to the disruptive entry of open access at the low end of the scholarly journal market.

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Open Access, Elsevier, Scholarly Communications
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Open access publishing, Communication in learning and scholarship
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David W. Lewis, "Why Elsevier’s Outrageous Profit Margins Could Turn Out to Be a Good Thing," June 2017.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1805/12970
 https://doi.org/10.7912/C2NH1W
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