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...

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...

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...

This paper reports a longitudinal multi-case research project encompassing 72 semi-structured interviews carried out in 2011 and 2012. The interviews covered topics of the collaboration type, the initiation of the collaboration and details concerning the planning of the collaborations. In...