Tracks &
Programme

11:00 Welcome Speech by organizers

11:15 Introduction Lecture

12:00 Discussion with audience (30 mins)

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Parallel sessions*: Paper workshop

15.30 Break

16.00 Concluding lecture

17:00 Departure for the PhD-dinner

*According the profiles of the PhD Students and their projects, parallel sessions will be organized (we may focus on research design for earlier stage projects on one hand, and focus on the contributions and outputs for later stage PhD students on the other hand).

For further information on the PhD workshop click here

This Ph.D. course is a one-day event, aiming focusing on technology-based entrepreneurship and introduce different perspectives on innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business development and strategy. Throughout the day there will be short lectures from both researchers and technology driven companies, a small workshop and a panel discussion, taking up the participating Ph.D.’s questions on the area of technology-based entrepreneurship. This course allows for networking with peers interested in technology-based entrepreneurship coming from various backgrounds, institutions, disciplines and countries.  

For more information and sign-up click here

Note that sign-up deadline is September 25th

Journal of Business Models' Editorial Advisory Board Meeting will take place prior to the Business Model Conference. 

Exclusive business track for practitioners. 

The business track will focus on Business Design and Digital Transformation and the link between business models, technology and digitalisation. It will be a combination of participating in the academic conference and business leaders sharing their experiences. 

The programme will be updated ongoing, thus changes may occur…

To read more about this track click here 

The fifth stage of business model research
Future research-trajectories in business models

New trends and technologies that are currently disrupting and changing the way we do and think business. However, at the same time global geopolitical stability is deteriorating, leading to rising uncertainty for international trade. Global social issues and climate change is fostering the need for inclusiveness in business and for increased sustainability to the zero-impact level.

Furthermore, we face exogenous shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and other grand challenges that add to the uncertainty of doing business. Although none of these factors are unforeseen, their magnitude and recurrence have provided a platform for a massive refocusing of business and research priorities since the beginning of 2020. Therefore, the fifth stage of business model research will be known as “the role of business models in times of uncertainty”

The track is arranged by:

Annabeth Aagaard, Asssociate Professor,
Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences

Christian Nielsen, Professor, Head of Business School,
Aalborg University Business School

Book panel presentation

Programme 

• Opening of the session - Christian Nielsen
   
• Presentation of the book Business Models and Firm Internationalisation, to be published by Routledge, edited by Christian Nielsen, Svetla T. Marinova and Marin A. Marinov - Marin A. Marinov
   
• Business Models and the Internationalisation Process - Svetla T. Marinova;
   
• Framing Firm Internationalisation - A Business Model Perspective - Mika Yrjola;
   
• Effects of Platform Business Models on the Outcomes and Speed of Internationalisation - Tamara Galkina;
   
• Business Models of International New Ventures - Petri Ahokangas;
   
• Business Models and Firm Internationalisation - What Is Missing? - Jean-Francois Hennart.
   
   
  The programme will be updated ongoing, thus changes may occur

Exclusive business track for practitioners. 

The business track will focus on Business Design and Digital Transformation and the link between business models, technology and digitalisation. It will be a combination of participating in the academic conference and business leaders sharing their experiences. 

The programme will be updated ongoing, thus changes may occur…

To read more about this track click here 

Innovations such as novel business models suffer from low legitimacy – but business models can be also seen as devices to test the legitimacy of new technological innovations. Thus, business model innovators need to plan strategies for improving the legitimacy of their business models. The panel Legitimacy and legitimation of business models will focus on discussing the antecedents and outcomes of legitimacy and legitimation of business models in different contexts, stemming from the discussions within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project LNETN (Legitimation of Newness and its impact on EU agenda for change). The panel will provide novel insights into how to examine legitimacy/legitimation of business models, and what we can learn by bringing legitimacy/legitimation discussion into the context of business model research.

Panel chairs: Prof. Petri Ahokangas, Prof. Romeo Turcan, and D.Sc. Marika Iivari

The discussants comprise of the ESRs (early stage researchers) of the LNETN project: Cristian Ziliberberg, Deniz Dönmez, Hamideh Saadatmanesh, Jackson Wanjiku, Julia Zhang, Louis Georges Theodore Lines, Luiza Stein, Manoella Antonieta Ramos da Silva, Olga Pojiltov, Oxana Gisca, Rashid Sadeghian Dehkordi, Saurav Kumar.