A Business Pattern is a common design of either a process or data that is used in various business model.
E.g. PartyPattern
http://BusinessPatterns.org is a non-profit established for the sharing and collections of Business Patterns.
See also OrganizationalPatterns
Business alliances and partnering, communications, marketing and other strategies / business models could be covered too.
See Richard Veryard (author of ComponentBasedBusiness) explanation of BusinessPatterns at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rxv/cbb/cbb-businesspatterns.pdf