PhD defence: Adela Michea

This dissertation proposes a sensemaking study of a business model innovation process in an established company. Findings show that the difficulty of innovating business models comes from the need of overcoming a heterogeneity of interruptions scattered unevenly across the elements of the model. Thus, the study illustrates that the enactment of a business model is neither a linear process nor strictly dependent on the internal resources, but rather an emerging process. The enactment is a collective effort of reaching temporary intersubjectivity, which allows innovation to continue, against ideology, need of control, and divergences between paradigms.

 
Primary Supervisor:
Associate Professor Claus Varnes  
Department of Operations Management
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary supervisor:
Professor John Christiansen
Department of Operations Management
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assessment Committee:
Professor Jan Mouritsen (Chair)
Department of Operations Management
Copenhagen Business School
 
Professor MSO Christian Nielsen
Department of Business and Management
Aalborg University
 
Professor Gloria Barczak
Department of Marketing
Northeastern University
 
Thesis:
The thesis is available here.
 
Reception:
The Doctoral School of Business and Management will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence  in FUHU Faculty Club, 3rd floor above the canteen.