Towards an Intra- and Interorganizational Perspective: Objectives and Areas of Activity of Digital Innovation Units
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Proceedings of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021. ed. / Tung X. Bui. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2021. p. 5902-5911 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 2020-January).
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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
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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 Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
CY - Honolulu
Y2 - 4 January 2021 through 8 January 2021
ER -