TY - JOUR

T1 - Responsibility of/in Digital Transformation

AU - Zimmer, Markus Philipp

AU - Järveläinen, Jonna

AU - Stahl, Bernd C.

AU - Mueller, Benjamin

N1 - © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of ORBIT.

PY - 2023/12/1

Y1 - 2023/12/1

N2 - In this editorial, we chart a path for research on responsible digital transformation (DT). We draw on responsible innovation to provide a framework that can inform the research agenda of the emerging literature of responsible DT. First, we outline what we refer to as DT and how the existing debate overlooks key issues for making DT responsible. Second, we draw on the concept of responsible innovation to examine the meaning of responsibility in the context of innovation and translate it to DT. This leads us to understand responsible DT as two-dimensional including a process and an outcome dimension. Accordingly, we pose two questions: (1) when we can consider a DT process responsible (i.e., responsibility in DT), and (2) when we can consider DT outcomes responsible (i.e., the responsibility of DT). Offering suggestions on how we can approach studying these questions, we chart a path for responsible DT research. This path presents a new frontier within the DT discourse calling to our attention how DTif we make responsibility of/in DT explicitcan be the solution rather than the problem.

AB - In this editorial, we chart a path for research on responsible digital transformation (DT). We draw on responsible innovation to provide a framework that can inform the research agenda of the emerging literature of responsible DT. First, we outline what we refer to as DT and how the existing debate overlooks key issues for making DT responsible. Second, we draw on the concept of responsible innovation to examine the meaning of responsibility in the context of innovation and translate it to DT. This leads us to understand responsible DT as two-dimensional including a process and an outcome dimension. Accordingly, we pose two questions: (1) when we can consider a DT process responsible (i.e., responsibility in DT), and (2) when we can consider DT outcomes responsible (i.e., the responsibility of DT). Offering suggestions on how we can approach studying these questions, we chart a path for responsible DT research. This path presents a new frontier within the DT discourse calling to our attention how DTif we make responsibility of/in DT explicitcan be the solution rather than the problem.

KW - Business informatics

KW - Digital transformation

KW - Responsible digital transformation

KW - Digital responsibility

KW - Digital sustainability

KW - Management studies

KW - Digital transformation

KW - Responsible digital transformation

KW - Digital responsibility

KW - Digital sustainability

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/6783e5fb-8e59-3898-9f1e-e10a85511b98/

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85172447962&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.jrt.2023.100068

DO - 10.1016/j.jrt.2023.100068

M3 - Other (editorial matter etc.)

VL - 16

JO - Journal of Responsible Technology

JF - Journal of Responsible Technology

SN - 2666-6596

M1 - 100068

ER -