TY - CHAP

T1 - Towards an Intra- and Interorganizational Perspective

T2 - 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - HICSS 2021

AU - Raabe, Jun-Patrick

AU - Drews, Paul

AU - Horlach, Bettina

AU - Schirmer, Ingrid

N1 - Conference code: 54

PY - 2021/1/1

Y1 - 2021/1/1

N2 - Incumbent firms increasingly strive to embrace digital innovation, often via implementing dedicated digital innovation units (DIUs). As seizing the rapid and various digital innovation-related market movements may be overwhelming for an individual DIU, collaborations within ecosystems are perceived as crucial for continuously recognizing business opportunities and threats. Although this is a growing field of interest in recent research, insights into the objectives of DIUs and the consequent activities for effectively handling digital innovation are yet scarce. We address this issue by synthesizing 28 cases on DIUs through a qualitative meta-analysis. The analysis revealed that while DIUs enforce an intraorganizational cultural and overarching organizational design change, they also impose an interorganizational perspective with customer-oriented digital expertise and innovation, as well as cultivation of digital innovation ecosystems. Thus, we contribute to the existing DIU research by clarifying these objectives and extending them to achieve a conscious interorganizational perspective with accompanying activities.

AB - Incumbent firms increasingly strive to embrace digital innovation, often via implementing dedicated digital innovation units (DIUs). As seizing the rapid and various digital innovation-related market movements may be overwhelming for an individual DIU, collaborations within ecosystems are perceived as crucial for continuously recognizing business opportunities and threats. Although this is a growing field of interest in recent research, insights into the objectives of DIUs and the consequent activities for effectively handling digital innovation are yet scarce. We address this issue by synthesizing 28 cases on DIUs through a qualitative meta-analysis. The analysis revealed that while DIUs enforce an intraorganizational cultural and overarching organizational design change, they also impose an interorganizational perspective with customer-oriented digital expertise and innovation, as well as cultivation of digital innovation ecosystems. Thus, we contribute to the existing DIU research by clarifying these objectives and extending them to achieve a conscious interorganizational perspective with accompanying activities.

KW - Business informatics

KW - Digital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship

KW - digital innovation

KW - digital innovation ecosystem

KW - Digital Innovation Units

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108379439&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/1b91649d-2969-331b-ad93-0f822c0d97d2/

U2 - 10.24251/HICSS.2021.714

DO - 10.24251/HICSS.2021.714

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

SP - 5902

EP - 5911

BT - Proceedings of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021

A2 - Bui, Tung X.

PB - University of Hawaii at Manoa

CY - Honolulu

Y2 - 4 January 2021 through 8 January 2021

ER -