Christian Nielsen
Christian Nielsen is Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. He is Director of Business Model Design Center (BMDC, www.bmdc.aau.dk), the worlds first interdisciplinary research center focusing on business models. Christian has previously worked as an equity strategist and macro economist focusing specifically on integrating Intellectual Capital and ESG factors into business model valuations. Research interests concern analyzing, evaluating and measuring the performance of business models.
Subjects: Business, Management and Accounting
Biography
Professor Christian Nielsenhttp://personprofil.aau.dk/profil/115869#/minside
Business Model Design Center, Aalborg University, Denmark
Christian Nielsen, Ph.d., is Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. He is Director of Business Model Design Center (BMDC, www.bmdc.aau.dk), the worlds first interdisciplinary research center focusing on business models. Christian has previously worked as an equity strategist and macro economist focusing specifically on integrating Intellectual Capital and ESG factors into business model valuations. His Ph.d. dissertation from 2005 won the Emerald/EFMD Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, and in 2011 he received the Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Reviewer Award. Christian Nielsen has a substantial number of international publications to his record and his research interests concern analyzing, evaluating and measuring the performance of business models.
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ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5050-5793
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Business Models
Performance Measurement
Intellectual Capital and Integrated Reporting
Board Governance
Books
Articles
The Concept of Business Model Scalability
Published: Mar 10, 2015 by SSRN
Authors: Christian Nielsen and Morten Lund
Subjects:
Business, Management and Accounting
While providing a good value proposition may help the firm ‘get by’, the really successful businesses of today are those able to reach the sweet-spot of business model scalability. This article introduces and discusses the term scalability from a company-level perspective. It illustrates how managers should be using this term for the benefit of their business by focusing on business models capable of achieving exponentially increasing returns to scale