Digital Innovation and Institutional Entrepreneurship: Chief Digital Officer Perspectives of their Emerging Role

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanja Tumbas ◽  
Nicholas Berente ◽  
Jan vom Brocke
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Logic ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
Chief Digital Officer

In this study, we explore the role of Chief Digital Officer (CDO) through the perspectives of CDOs in thirty-five organizations. In enacting their emerging role, CDOs must navigate the existing institutionalized context of established information technology (IT) roles and respective jurisdictional claims. We find that CDOs intentionally draw on the term “digital” to distance themselves from existing executive roles in order to gain legitimacy. CDOs as institutional entrepreneurs take a focal role in both: (1) articulating and developing the emerging “digital” logic of action and (2) enacting this digital logic through strategies such as grafting, bridging, and decoupling to navigate tensions between the existing and emerging approaches to innovation with digital technologies.

scholarly journals Taking Lead for Sustainability: Environmental Managers as Institutional Entrepreneurs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4022
Author(s):  
Pernilla Gluch ◽  
Stina Månsson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Critical Events ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Past

Over the past two decades, sustainability professionals have entered the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. However, little attention has been given to the actual professionalization processes of these and the leadership conducted by them when shaping the pace and direction for sustainable development. With the aim to explore how the role of sustainability professionals develops, critical events affecting everyday sustainability work practices were identified. Based on a phenomenological study with focus on eight experienced environmental managers’ life stories, and by applying the theoretical lens of institutional entrepreneurship, the study displays a professionalization process in six episodes. Different critical events both enabled and disabled environmental managers’ opportunity to engage in institutional entrepreneurship. The findings indicate how agency is closely interrelated to temporary discourses in society; they either serve to support change and create new institutional practices towards enhanced sustainability or disrupt change when agency to act is temporarily “lost”. To manage a continually changing environment, environmental managers adopt different strategies depending on the situated context and time, such as finding ambassadors and interorganizational allies, mobilizing resources, creating organizational structures, and repositioning themselves.

scholarly journals Knowledge creation in IT projects to accelerate digital innovation: two decade systematic literature review

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1040
Author(s):  
Tung Soon Seng ◽  
Magiswary Dorasamy ◽  
Ruzanna Razak ◽  
Maniam Kaliannan ◽  
Murali Sambasivan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Online Databases

The interactivity and ubiquity of digital technologies are exerting a significant impact on the knowledge creation in information technology (KC-IT) projects. According to the literature, the critical relevance of KC-IT is highly associated with digital innovation (DI) for organisational success. However, DI is not yet a fully-fledged research subject but is an evolving corpus of theory and practise that draws from a variety of social science fields. Given the preceding setting, this study explores the interaction of KC-IT with DI. This work provides a systemic literature review (SLR) to examine the literature in KC-IT and its connection to DI. A SLR of 527 papers from 2001 to 2021 was performed across six online databases. The review encompasses quantitative and qualitative studies on KC-IT factors, processes and methods. Three major gaps were found in the SLR. Firstly, only 57 (0.23%) papers were found to examine the association between KC and IT projects. These works were analysed for theories, type of papers, KC-IT factors, processes and methods. Secondly, the convergence reviews indicate that scarce research has examined TMS and trust in KC-IT as factors. Thirdly, only 0.02% (5) core papers appeared in the search relevant to KC in IT projects to accelerate DI. The majority of the papers examined were not linked to DI. A significant gap also exists in these areas. These findings warrant the attention of the research community.

Museum Digital Innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Paola De Bernardi ◽  
Monica Gilli
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this chapter is to determine the role of digital communication strategies in Torino digitally active museums. It describes strengths and weakness of museum digital communication practices, giving evidence on the awareness that museum managers have on the power of technology, data and automation to drive innovative digital communications. While some conceptual studies have highlighted the impact that digital technologies have on museums, empirical evidence on communication strategies, according to museum managers, is still missing. This research aims to fill this gap. The results show that digital communication is weakly linked to strategic dimension in the Torino museums, since it is conceived as a short-term operative tool, and it is not yet managed as a key resource to engage in dialogue with their publics. Results could provide new insight to directors and museum managers involved from the transformative and often disruptive power of digitization with the various spill-over effects on their business models.

Institutional entrepreneurs on opportunity formation and exploitation in strategic new industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuanwei Cao ◽  
Yipeng Liu ◽  
Chunhui Cao
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneur ◽  
New Industry

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of institutional entrepreneurship in opportunity formation and opportunity exploitation in developing emerging strategic new industries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the focal literature focussing on institutional entrepreneurs’ role in opportunity formation with special attention to opportunities for institutional entrepreneurs in emerging economy. A multi-method approach consisting of historical case studies and event sequencing is applied to track the historical development of the solar energy industry in two case contexts and to investigate the role of institutional entrepreneurs in this process. Findings – Investigation of two cases illustrates that different types of institutional entrepreneur, as represented by individual entrepreneurs and local government, in the context of massive institutional change – such as the Grand Western Development Program and the Thousand Talents Program in China – have varied effects on triggering and inducing institutional change and innovation to explore and exploit opportunities in emerging new industries. Practical implications – The significance of local context for the nature and scope of institutional entrepreneurship in emerging economy is worthy of further research. The top-down process of institutional innovation dominated by local government might cause myopic outcome and distortion of market opportunities. Indigenous individual entrepreneurs with well-accumulated political capital and strong perceived responsibility could be the main actors to introduce incremental institutional change by combining bottom-up and top-down processes and promoting sustained new industry development through creating and seizing institutional opportunities and market opportunities. Originality/value – This paper illustrates the close relationship between institutional environment and opportunity formation in emerging economies, contributes to the understanding of contextualizing institutional entrepreneurs in different regional contexts and discloses the problems involved in local government acting as an institutional entrepreneur.

scholarly journals Knowledge creation in IT projects to accelerate digital innovation: two decade systematic literature review

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1040
Author(s):  
Tung Soon Seng ◽  
Magiswary Dorasamy ◽  
Ruzanna Razak ◽  
Maniam Kaliannan ◽  
Murali Sambasivan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Online Databases

The interactivity and ubiquity of digital technologies are exerting a significant impact on the knowledge creation in information technology (KC-IT) projects. According to the literature, the critical relevance of KC-IT is highly associated with digital innovation (DI) for organisational success. However, DI is not yet a fully-fledged research subject but is an evolving corpus of theory and practise that draws from a variety of social science fields. Given the preceding setting, this study explores the interaction of KC-IT with DI. This work provides a systemic literature review (SLR) to examine the literature in KC-IT and its connection to DI. A SLR of 527 papers from 2001 to 2021 was performed across six online databases. The review encompasses quantitative and qualitative studies on KC-IT factors, processes and methods. Three major gaps were found in the SLR. Firstly, only 57 (0.23%) papers were found to examine the association between KC and IT projects. These works were analysed for theories, type of papers, KC-IT factors, processes and methods. Secondly, the convergence reviews indicate that scarce research has examined TMS and trust in KC-IT as factors. Thirdly, only 0.02% (5) core papers appeared in the search relevant to KC in IT projects to accelerate DI. The majority of the papers examined were not linked to DI. A significant gap also exists in these areas. These findings warrant the attention of the research community.

scholarly journals Difficulties of digitalization: information technology in business, science, management education

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
T. Yu. Krotenko ◽  
M. I. Kanunikova ◽  
O. V. Lesnikova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Science Management ◽  
Science And Education

Changes in Russia and the world are persistently pushing business, science and education to step into the digital space. At the same time, organizations, regardless of their field of activity, require a certain readiness, without which any digital innovation would be premature or unnecessary. However, it is not only the «digital maturity» of an organization that affects the success of its transformation towards the use of new digital technologies. The ability of workers and the organization as a whole to experiment is also important, as well as a certain enthusiasm, which is based on awareness of the progress in the field of information technology.

Historical stages in the development of domestic lawmaking: from imperial tradition to digital innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11-2) ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Dina Alimova ◽  
Maxim Zaloilo ◽  
Oksana Ivanyuk ◽  
Dmitry Pashentsev
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Legislative Activity

The article identifies and analyzes the historical stages in the development of the legislative activity of the Russian state, starting from the 15th century. The characteristics of each of the stages are given from the standpoint of historical science. The features, that characterize the Russian lawmaking tradition are revealed, with the help of the comparative historical method its historical dynamics is shown over several centuries. The role of the state in the development of lawmaking at different historical stages is substantiated, the influence of the form of government on lawmaking is shown. The features of the influence of modern digital technologies on lawmaking are revealed, the transformation of lawmaking traditions under the influence of digitalization is shown.

The Birth of the 'Kodak Moment': Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Adoption of New Technologies

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1665-1687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal A. Munir ◽  
Nelson Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs

In this paper, we adopt a discourse analytic methodology to explore the role of institutional entrepreneurs in the process of institutional change that coincides with the adoption of a radically new technology. More specifically, we examine how Kodak managed to transform photography from a highly specialized activity to one that became an integral part of everyday life. Based on this case, we develop an initial typology of the strategies available to institutional entrepreneurs who wish to affect the processes of social construction that lead to change in institutional fields. The use of discourse analysis in analysing institutional change provides new insights into the processes through which institutional fields evolve as well as into how institutional entrepreneurs are able to act strategically to embody their interests in the resulting institutions.

Strategic actions against climate change of institutional entrepreneurs: a case study in the Spanish renewable energy sector

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
José María González-González ◽  
Constancio Zamora-Ramírez ◽  
Ignacio García-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs

Purpose – This paper aims to improve the knowledge about the strategic actions of institutional entrepreneurs in the configuration of the institutional pillars of an emerging field such as the Spanish renewable energy sector, as well as to illustrate the role of these actors in the fight against climate change. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a single case study conducted in a company that entered the renewable energy sector in the ‘90s, and currently is a national and international reference in the generation of thermosolar power. The results of this case study are analysed and interpreted according to the New Institutional Sociology. Findings – The paper identifies and analyses the strategic actions developed by the company to configure the regulative, normative and cognitive pillars of its institutional context, such as the establishment of inter-actors relationships, the mobilisation of constituent actors, the use of sanctions and rewards, the employment of consultants and the public dissemination of knowledge and social awareness. Originality/value – The paper contributes to the development of the specialised literature about the institutional entrepreneurship which is very scarce in relation to the actions of institutional entrepreneurs in emerging fields. Likewise, this study allows managers to know the role of those entrepreneurs to configure the behaviour patterns that could be accepted and assumed by those entering the sector later on.

scholarly journals The Role Of Information Technology In Modern Banks

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (06) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Shakhlo Shurkrullaevna Davirova ◽  
◽  
Komiljon Shukhrat Ugli Ruziyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Role Of Information

The article reveals the essence of the concept of "digital innovation", studies the current situation of Internet communications, studies the ways of formation and development of digital banks in Uzbekistan.

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