Cover -- Table of contents -- Guest Editor's note -- Business model performance: five key drivers -- Succeeding with freemium: strategies for implementation -- Crowdsourcing business models that last -- Responding to open business models -- Discovering digital business models in traditional...

Purpose: The management of reputation and status is central to creative professional service firms (CPSFs) rendering the internationalisation process a particular challenge. The authors build on arguments that internationalisation requires moving from outsidership to insidership within client...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide guidelines for practitioners for developing creative strategies and new business models. Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper reviews more than 150 interviews with CEOs, directors and business unit heads from across functional areas over the...

Purpose: Repeatedly engaging in strategic exercises may lead to a certain weariness, as the same strategic processes are used over and over again. The authors advocate looking at business model as a new concept to challenge existing beliefs and what is taken for granted. This paper aims to...

Purpose: Massive open online courses (MOOCs), Millennials, a major financial crisis, and legitimacy issues in a mature sector, ridden by mass imitation, have plunged many business schools into an unprecedented turmoil. Most deans are struggling to address it. In such a mature sector,...

Purpose – Massive open online courses (MOOCs), Millennials, a major financial crisis, and legitimacy issues in a mature sector, ridden by mass imitation, have plunged many business schools into an unprecedented turmoil. Most deans are struggling to address it. In such a mature sector,...

The highly institutionalized field of management education has been in turmoil. Most business schools are experiencing a legitimacy crisis and have been seeking social approval since the epic 2001 Enron debacle and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Many scholars and policymakers have held...

Thus far, the internationalization of management education has been mainly defined as the institutional answer (Knight, 2003) to the growing pressure on business schools to become more “global.” The purpose of this paper is to describe the two processes of globalization and...