[AISWorld] CfP: Business Models and Business Model Innovation, Insights for Practitioners - Journal of Business Strategy

[Aurelio Ravarini]

Dear All,
please find at the url below a call for papers of the Journal of Business
Strategy (http://goo.gl/hHBFa3).

Call for Papers: http://goo.gl/c7iYVI
Important Dates: paper submission due by 30th September, 2015

Guest Editors
- V. Mangematin, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
- A. Ravarini, Università Carlo Cattaneo, Italy

- P. Sharkey Scott, Maynooth University, Ireland


Background to Special Issue

The emergence of icons of success such as Facebook, Google, and Apple
initiated strong and continuing research and media interest in business
models as a means of exploiting technology and innovations. In response,
researchers have produced a rich and growing body of theory and empirical
studies on the phenomenon. However, substantial conceptual developments
have not yet been translated to guide management practice, messages about
how managers can use business models and achieve business model innovation
are confusing and often contradictory. There is growing theoretical
acceptance that creating and capturing value requires firms to sense their
customer’s needs, create value to meet these needs, capture the value and
monetise it, but few entrepreneurs or managers know how to achieve this
through their existing business model(s) or business model innovation. This
is an urgent need in all companies be large or small, be mature or recent.
A recent Accenture survey confirms that most (95%) senior managers in large
Western organizations are concerned about the appropriateness of their
business model(s) for operating under current competitive conditions. IT
and digital innovation are usually the premises of the emergence of new
business models.


Types of Submissions Requested

In line with the Journal of Business Strategy’s mission of publishing
articles with a practical focus to help organizations to develop successful
business strategies, this special issue will reduce ambiguity on business
model thinking by providing accessible, leading edge insights for managers
and CIOs. We ask you to translate your empirical work to respond to the
practitioner focus of this journal and to provide cutting edge insights for
managers and CIOs across all types of organizations, from start-ups, SMEs
to multinational enterprises with a large portfolio of business models. We
are focusing on single innovative business models as well as the
articulation of business models within portfolio. We are focusing on the
process to invent new business models, mostly based on innovative use of IT
as well as implementation of business models within companies. We are also
inviting papers which focus on companies as well as not for profit
organizations. We are interested in papers which go beyond anecdotal
descriptions of the phenomenon and represent substantial translations of
theory development for practitioner guidance.


Papers submitted to this special issue by 30 th September, 2015 via the
guest editors (Vincent.mangematin at grenoble-em.com, aravarini at liuc.it,
pamela.sharkeyscott at nuim.ie) should apply emerging thinking on business
models to provide new insights and ideas on the use of business models as
tools for innovating and delivering value.

Please note that all papers must be aligned with the Journal of Business
Strategy format and style. The editors welcome informal enquires related to
proposed topics.


Illustrative topics – but not limited to include:

Creation/Implementation of business models

Modelling the business model

Disruptive innovation in business models

Diagnosing the business model

Business model innovation and performance

Tools for business model innovation

Business model innovation based on IT

Challenges of business model innovation

Business models for non for profit innovation

Digital Innovation and Business Models

Information Systems Strategy and Business Models

Frugal innovation and business models

Business model innovation in different industries

Corporate Business Models and Portfolios of business models




*Aurelio Ravarini PhD*

CETIC <http://cetic.liuc.it/> Research Center - Smartup
<http://smartup.liuc.it> Lab

Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC <http://www.liuc.it/>

(T) +39 0331 572327

(E) aravarini at liuc.it

aurelioravarini <http://www.linkedin.com/in/aurelioravarini>