Joakim Björkdahl

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the increasing interdependency among different bodies of knowledge in products, from the technology opportunities arising from cross-fertilizing, and how firms try to appropriate economic value from their technical potential.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the digitalization efforts of 26 leading manufacturing firms, the difficulties encountered, and how they can be handled, and show that many firms are far from ready to benefit from digitalization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a study of business model innovation and value migration in the computer and telecommunications industries and conclude that when value is rapidly migrating across industries and between firms, proactively substituting key elements of the primary business model provides a better fit with the new value landscape than launching secondary business models in parallel.

TL;DR: Bjorkdahl et al. as discussed by the authors, associate professor in the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology, have published several articles on business models in refereed journals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a study of nine large Nordic (Swedish and Norwegian) forest-based manufacturing firms, with operations ranging from pulp and paper chemicals, pulp production, packaging boards, packaging paper, and specialty paper to food processing and packaging solutions.