This paper aims to explore how mature firms in the media industry adapt their business models when faced with disruptive external change. This is particularly challenging as it often involves questioning and renewing the mental models that have guided the management of the firm in earlier...

Up to now, there has been little research on the impact of e-recruitment on the recruitment process as a whole. The present study fills part of this gap by investigating the effect of e-recruitment on the design of the recruitment process. Three explorative case studies were carried out in three...

In e-business freemium business models have become legitimate. However, current research provides little insight on how the free and premium offering should be employed to lead to growth and success in the long run. The presented research aims to fill this gap by investigating how the property...

Teaching business models (BM) and business model innovation (BMI) in universities and business schools has become a common practice. Academia has acknowledged that despite the very normative nature of the concept, business model thinking unites and synergistically binds the very fundamental...

The papers in this first volume represent a great variety of teaching approaches. Each paper presents approaches or instruments that have been successfully used in either the classroom or in online teaching. Furthermore, the authors provide clear guidance on how to apply their approaches,...

We discuss our lessons from 8 years of teaching business model innovation to executives in our part-time MBA program. We examine how strategic foresight tools are particularly useful to help students to overcome the cognitive bounds that inhibit business model innovation and discuss the...

In this paper, we look at how the major Danish newspapers are responding to the challenges posed by the decreasing sales of the printed newspapers and advertising space, through growing online advertising and various technological innovations. We approach the theme from the business model...