Business Models for Strategic Innovation : Cross-Functional Perspectives

This book extends our understanding of how different cross- functional business and management disciplines, such as innovation and entrepreneurship, strategic management, marketing and HRM, individually and collectively underpin innovation in business management.

Business Models for Strategic Innovation develops insights from cross-disciplinary business knowledge streams and their cutting edge discipline-specific practical implications to create a cross- functional business innovation management model. Novel cross- disciplinary knowledge plays an imperative role in business innovation and we know that innovative management processes have significant implications for effective cross- functional management. In this context, each chapter of the book presents fresh insights on diverse business knowledge- streams as well as their applied implications on cross- functional business innovation management. Finally, centred on these cross- disciplinary business theories and their cutting edge implications, the last chapter of this book proposes a model of strategic cross- functional business innovation management process.

This academically rigorous work uses innovative theoretical propositions and state- of- the- art empirical analysis in order to enable cross- functional management teams to support organisation- wide business innovation processes.

S. M. Riad Shams is a Senior Research Fellow at the Ural Federal University, Russia. He is the lead- editor of the Annals of Business Research and has been serving as the track- chair in the leading international academic conferences.

Demetris Vrontis is a Professor and an Executive Dean at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus. He is the President of the EuroMed Research Business Institute and the Editor- in- Chief of the EuroMed Journal of Business.

Yaakov Weber is Professor at the School of Business Administration, College of Management, Israel. He has also served in various Editorial positions in leading journals such as CMR, JWB, HRM, BJM.

Evangelos Tsoukatos is an Associate Professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Crete, Greece where he teaches Management and adjunct faculty at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus and the Hellenic Open University.