In this interview-based article, Professor Christian Nielsen summons two of the latest decades' biggest management thinkers, the two inventors of the Business Model Canvas, Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, for a conversation about the current challenges for companies in doing business model...

This interview comprises the opening part of a doctoral defense in which Christian Nielsen acted as Sari Perätalo's opponent. The defense took place on November 24, 2023, at Oulu Business School, Finland, and the topic was "In search of a business model approach for smart cities." After the...

The adoption of a performative approach promises to enrich research enquiries pursued in the business model field. Such an approach has demonstrated its purchase in other business and management disciplines, including accounting, and has contributed to the wider exploration of social science...

This chapter applies the lens of emergentism and emergent properties to the understanding of value propositions, value creation, value delivery and value realization. It argues that none of the building blocks typically asserted with business models are of any value without the underlying...

The aim of this work is to investigate the alignment of preparers’ and users’ perceptions of the BM and its constitutive elements. Results show that, while both categories assign great importance to this concept, different conceptions of the purpose and the components of a BM emerge.

Purpose: We illustrate how cross-disciplinarity in business model research (multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity) can help scholars overcome silo-building and span disciplinary boundaries. The seven articles contained in the special issue ‘Fostering Cross-Disciplinarity in Business Model...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how business models (BMs) can guide the design of a performance measurement system (PMS) and to shed light on the advantages and disadvantages of using BMs as a platform for designing a PMS and identifying key performance indicators (KPIs)....

Purpose: We discuss traditional assumptions about value creation and confront these with current views on sustainable value creation (SVC). Against this backdrop, the articles contained in the special issue "Sustainable Value Creation Through Business Models" are introduced, and their...

It is not only new trends and technologies that are currently disrupting and changing the way we do and think business. Global geopolitical stability is deteriorating, leading to rising uncertainty for international trade. Climate change is fostering the need for inclusiveness in business and...