Institutional Perspectives on Digital Transformation
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Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory. ed. / Thomas Gegenhuber; Danielle Logue; C.R. (Bob) Hinings; Michael Barrett. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022. p. 1-32 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Vol. 83).
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T1 - Institutional Perspectives on Digital Transformation
AU - Gegenhuber, Thomas
AU - Logue, Danielle
AU - Hinings, Bob
AU - Barrett, Michael
PY - 2022/9/23
Y1 - 2022/9/23
N2 - Undoubtedly, digital transformation is permeating all domains of business and society. We envisage this volume as an opportunity to explore how manifestations of digital transformation require rethinking of our understanding and theorization of institutional processes. To achieve this goal, a collaborative forum of organization and management theory scholars and information systems researchers was developed to enrich and advance institutional theory approaches in understanding digital transformation. This volume’s contributions advance the three institutional perspectives. The first perspective, institutional logics, technological affordances and digital transformation, seeks to deepen our understanding of the pervasive and increasingly important relationship between technology and institutions. The second perspective, digital transformation, professional projects and new institutional agents, explores how existing professions respond to the introduction of digital technologies as well as the emergence of new professional projects and institutional agents in the wake of digital transformation. The third perspective, institutional infrastructure, field governance and digital transformation, inquires how new digital organizational forms, such as platforms, affect institutional fields, their infrastructure and thus their governance. For each of these perspectives, we outline an agenda for future research, complemented by a brief discussion of new research frontiers (i.e., digital work and sites of technological (re-)production; artificial intelligence (AI) and actorhood; digital transformation and grand challenges) and methodological reflections.
AB - Undoubtedly, digital transformation is permeating all domains of business and society. We envisage this volume as an opportunity to explore how manifestations of digital transformation require rethinking of our understanding and theorization of institutional processes. To achieve this goal, a collaborative forum of organization and management theory scholars and information systems researchers was developed to enrich and advance institutional theory approaches in understanding digital transformation. This volume’s contributions advance the three institutional perspectives. The first perspective, institutional logics, technological affordances and digital transformation, seeks to deepen our understanding of the pervasive and increasingly important relationship between technology and institutions. The second perspective, digital transformation, professional projects and new institutional agents, explores how existing professions respond to the introduction of digital technologies as well as the emergence of new professional projects and institutional agents in the wake of digital transformation. The third perspective, institutional infrastructure, field governance and digital transformation, inquires how new digital organizational forms, such as platforms, affect institutional fields, their infrastructure and thus their governance. For each of these perspectives, we outline an agenda for future research, complemented by a brief discussion of new research frontiers (i.e., digital work and sites of technological (re-)production; artificial intelligence (AI) and actorhood; digital transformation and grand challenges) and methodological reflections.
KW - Management studies
KW - institutional theory
KW - digital transformation
KW - Affordances
KW - Institutional logics
KW - Professions
KW - Institional infrastructure
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/537b5c8f-7388-35ee-b077-f219a4788286/
U2 - 10.1108/S0733-558X20220000083001
DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20220000083001
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-80262-222-5
T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
SP - 1
EP - 32
BT - Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory
A2 - Gegenhuber, Thomas
A2 - Logue, Danielle
A2 - Hinings, C.R. (Bob)
A2 - Barrett, Michael
PB - Emerald Publishing Limited
ER -