Contents: Foreword by Leif Edvinsson / Introduction: welcome to the world of intellectual capital / John Dumay, Christian Nielsen and Morten Lund -- Part I Content Analysis -- 1. Investigating intellectual capital disclosure through content analysis: Reflections and suggestions for future...

Through a longitudinal research project of 25 university–industry collaborations (UIC), this article studies the barriers and enablers that UIC partners face in the early phases of their partnerships and projects. These phases are crucial for the success of UICs and, given the growing focus on...

The power of business models lies in their ability to visualize and clarify how firms' may configure their value creation processes. Among the key aspects of business model thinking are a focus on what the customer values, how this value is best delivered to the customer and how strategic...

A business model is a sustainable way of doing business. Here sustainability stresses the ambition to survive over time and create a successful, perhaps even profitable, entity in the long run. The reason for this apparent ambiguity around the concept of profitability is, of course, that...

Business models have been intimately connected with e-business since the rise of the Internet during the late 1990’s. Kodama (1999) and Hedman & Kalling 2003 provide early reviews of the business model concept as seen around the dot.com era and the rise of the e-business model, while a more...

The field of business models has, as is the case with all emerging fields of practice, slowly matured through the development of frameworks, models, concepts and ideas over the last 15 years. New concepts, theories and models typically transcend a series of maturity phases

The problem – as well as the prospect – with business models is that they are concerned with being different; as business in general thrives on some sort of unique selling point. So the bundle of indicators on value creation, business models, strategy, intellectual capital, and so on, which...