Rani Shahwan is an assistant professor of Strategy and Business Model Innovation at An-najah National University.  He received his BA degree in Business Administration from Birzeit University, Palestine, followed by MBA in E-business and Information Technology from Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, and in 2015 he was awarded his PhD from Newcastle University Business School, UK. His research work is focused on investigating the antecedents to business model innovation and the impact of innovative business models on entrepreneurial firms' performance.