Business Model Innovation

Nicolai J Foss, Professor of Strategy and Organization, Copenhagen Business School, and Professor of Knowledge-based Value Creation, Norwegian School of Economics. Foss is the Head of Department of the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School, and leads a work-package on business model innovation in the Center for Service Innovation at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He is a highly prolific scholar in the strategic management and entrepreneurship fields, and has published 150 journal articles in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, etc. and has edited or authored more than twenty books and several special issues of journals. Tina Saebi, Postdoctoral research fellow, Norwegian School of Economics. In 2012, Tina Saebi joined the Norwegian School of Economics as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Service Innovation. Her research focuses on business model innovation, especially with regard to developing testable theories on business models for open/ service innovation. She obtained her PhD from Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics in 2011 on the topic of strategic alliance management. She gathered experience in working as a research fellow for EU-commissioned research projects on innovation and entrepreneurship as well as working as a lecturer at Maastricht University, where she also attained her integrated five year M.Sc. (bachelor's & master's) degree in International Business Studies in 2005.

This volume will appeal mostly to readers who are looking for a variety of ways to think about linkages between business model change and organizational change. Its strength lies in the diversity of perspectives and examples... The authors of the various chapters aim to open up avenues of inquiry for future research and identify different organizational factors that pose alignment challenges when a firm and/or its rivals change business models, rather than to extend theory.

• 1: Nicolai Foss and Tina Saebi: Business Models and Business Model Innovation: Bringing Organization into the Discussion 2: Sunyoung Leih, Greg Linden and David J. Teece: Business Model Innovation and Organizational Design: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective 3: José Santos, Bert Spector, and Ludo van den Heyden: Towards a Theory of Business Model Change 4: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Joan E. Ricart, and Jorge Tarziján: A Corporate View of Business Model Innovations 5: Julian Birkinshaw and Shaz Ansari: Management Models and Business Models 6: Nils Stieglitz and Nicolai Foss,: Business Model Innovation: The Role of Leadership 7: Costas Markides: How Established Firms Exploit Disruptive Business Model Innovation: Strategic and Organizational Challenges 8: Tina Saebi: Evolution, Adaptation or Innovation? A Contingency Framework on Business Model Dynamics 9: Massimo Colombo, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, and Ali Mohammadi: Innovative Business Models in High-tech Entrepreneurial Ventures: the Organizational Design Challenges 10: Daniel Kindström, and Christian Kowalkowski: Service-driven Business Model Innovation - Organizing the Shift from a Product-based to a Service-centric Business Model 11: Torben Pedersen and Henrik Sornn-Friese: A Business Model Innovation by an Incumbent Late Mover: Containerization in Maersk Line 12: Klement Rasmussen and Nicolai Foss: Business Model Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Supporting Role of Organizational Design 13: Marcel Bogers, Kristian J. Sund, and Juan Andrei Villarroel: The Organizational Dimension of Business Model Exploration: Evidence from the European Postal Industry