Tight-loose coupling of bundled capabilities: The imbalanced utilization of emerging digital technologies in newspaper businesses
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Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Systems: Auckland, New Zealand. . Association for Information Systems, 2014.
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T1 - Tight-loose coupling of bundled capabilities
T2 - 35th International Conference on Information Systems - ICIS 2014
AU - Wenzel, Matthias
AU - Rothmann, Wasko
AU - Koch, Jochen
N1 - Conference code: 35
PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - Consistent with insights on the joint deployment of capabilities to exploit digital technologies for strategic innovations, recent works re-conceptualize such "dynamic" capabilities as bundles of capabilities. By analyzing the empirical case of German daily quality newspaper organizations, which failed to fully exploit the strategic potential of emerging digital technologies and entered a severe crisis, we examine how capabilities must be coupled to facilitate the strategic use of emerging digital technologies for organizational change. We show that imbalanced couplings of bundled capabilities may lead to one-sided perceptions of digital opportunities that impede strategic reorientations and drive the use of emerging digital technologies into narrow trajectories. Therefore, we conclude that couplings of capabilities must be balanced to fully exploit the strategic potential of emerging digital technologies for conducting organizational change.
AB - Consistent with insights on the joint deployment of capabilities to exploit digital technologies for strategic innovations, recent works re-conceptualize such "dynamic" capabilities as bundles of capabilities. By analyzing the empirical case of German daily quality newspaper organizations, which failed to fully exploit the strategic potential of emerging digital technologies and entered a severe crisis, we examine how capabilities must be coupled to facilitate the strategic use of emerging digital technologies for organizational change. We show that imbalanced couplings of bundled capabilities may lead to one-sided perceptions of digital opportunities that impede strategic reorientations and drive the use of emerging digital technologies into narrow trajectories. Therefore, we conclude that couplings of capabilities must be balanced to fully exploit the strategic potential of emerging digital technologies for conducting organizational change.
KW - Management studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84923491504&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 9781634396943
BT - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Systems
PB - Association for Information Systems
Y2 - 14 December 2014 through 17 December 2014
ER -