The focus of the June 2012 special issue of The TIM Review is on global business creation. The organizers of the 11^th Emergent Business Research Forum Conference (EBRF 2011), invited business scholars together with entrepreneurs, executives and policy makers, to the “Global Business Creation Games”, to co-create global businesses. The articles in this special issue are based on presentations given at EBRF 2011 and comprise an important showcase of the work to push the scholarly envelope around business in the knowledge society.