Academic agility in digital innovation research: The case of mobile ICT publications within information systems 2000–2014

Sørensen, Carsten; Landau, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2015.07.001

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“…As platforms are mashed up into larger digital infrastructures, digital platforms are becoming increasingly complex research objects (Evans and Basole, 2016). The generativity of digital platforms produces exponentially growing app developer ecosystems, thereby creating research objects that are several orders of magnitude larger than any traditional IS system (Sørensen and Landau, 2015). As digital platforms are competing on multiple levels of the technical architecture, for instance the operating system and browser in the mobile domain (Pon et al, 2014), specifying the appropriate unit of analysis is becoming increasingly difficult.…”

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The Digital Platform: A Research Agenda

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2018

Journal of Information Technology

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As digital platforms are transforming almost every industry today, they are slowly finding their way into the mainstream information systems (ISs) literature. Digital platforms are a challenging research object because of their distributed nature and intertwinement with institutions, markets and technologies. New research challenges arise as a result of the exponentially growing scale of platform innovation, the increasing complexity of platform architectures and the spread of digital platforms to many different industries. This paper develops a research agenda for digital platforms research in IS. We recommend researchers seek to (1) advance conceptual clarity by providing clear definitions that specify the unit of analysis, degree of digitality and the sociotechnical nature of digital platforms; (2) define the proper scoping of digital platform concepts by studying platforms on different architectural levels and in different industry settings; and (3) advance methodological rigour by employing embedded case studies, longitudinal studies, design research, data-driven modelling and visualisation techniques. Considering current developments in the business domain, we suggest six questions for further research: (1) Are platforms here to stay? (2) How should platforms be designed? (3) How do digital platforms transform industries? (4) How can data-driven approaches inform digital platforms research? (5) How should researchers develop theory for digital platforms? and (6) How do digital platforms affect everyday life?

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“…Likewise, connectivity enables new attributes and these include interoperability (e.g., Bharadwaj, El Sawy, Pavlou, and Venkatraman, 2013; Kallinikos et al, 2013; Porter and Heppelmann, 2014, 2015; Yoo et al, 2012), pervasiveness (e.g., Kolb, 2008; Kolb, Caza, and Collins, 2012; Wajcman and Rose, 2011), speed (e.g., Bharadwaj et al, 2013; Lazer and Friedman, 2007; Siggelkow and Rivkin, 2005; Svahn and Henfridsson, 2012), synchronization (e.g., Angwin and Vaara, 2005; Chatterjee, Segars, and Watson, 2006; Overby, 2008; Porter and Heppelmann, 2014), accessibility/transferability (e.g., Cross, Laseter, Parker, and Velasquez, 2006; Kallinikos et al, 2013; Lee and Berente, 2012; Leonardi and Bailey, 2008; Matusik and Mickel, 2011; Mazmanian, 2013; Mazmanian, Orlikowski, and Yates, 2013; Zittrain, 2006, 2008; Zhang, Yoo, Wattal, Zhang, and Kulathinal, 2014), and ubiquity (e.g., Iansiti and Lakhani, 2014; Kolb, 2008; Mardon and Belk, 2018; Sørensen and Landau, 2015; Wajcman and Rose, 2011). 6 Figure 2 provides a succinct visual representation of these properties in a holistic fashion.…”

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The Digital Transformation of Search and Recombination in the Innovation Function: Tensions and an Integrative Framework*

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2020

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Search and recombination are important mechanisms in the creativity phase of innovation. Digital transformation and the resulting pervasive digitalization of the innovation function have often been associated with increasing possibilities for search and recombination. In this paper, by systematically integrating the search and recombination literature with the literature on digitalization, we demonstrate that digitalization may engender new idiosyncratic tensions in the organizational antecedents of search and recombination and, by implication, in their likely outcomes. We propose that, depending on the interactions among the idiosyncratic tensions identified herein, knowledge recombination might spur very different outcomes, including knowledge layering, knowledge integration, knowledge grafting, or even no recombination at all (which we label “search for the sake of search”). These outcomes may not always be the initially planned desired outcomes. Finally, we provide implications of our integrative framework pertaining to product development and to organizing for innovation.

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“…This burdensome connotation of path dependence became particularly prevalent as Internet usage emerged and became more widespread. By creating new ways of developing, producing, and distributing products and services (Fichman et al, 2014;Tilson et al, 2010;Yoo et al, 2012), this sweeping technological change induced the demise of incumbents in many industries, such as the book industry (Nylén & Holmström, 2015), the camera industry (Lucas & Goh, 2009), the computer industry (Fichman et al, 2014), the cell phone industry (Sørensen & Landau, 2015), the music industry (Oestreicher-Singer & Zalmanson, 2013), and the newspaper industry (Karimi & Walter, 2015).…”

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The funeral industry and the Internet: on the historical emergence and destabilization of strategic paths

Wenzel

Wagner

Koch

2017

European Journal of Information Systems

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Although IS research acknowledges the importance of path dependence with the generalized response that ''history matters,'' this broad understanding does not substitute for a more systematic historical analysis of how paths emerge and how technological change breaks them. In this context, we draw on the theory of strategic path dependence from organization and management research to develop a more nuanced understanding of path dependence and then explore how technological change breaks these strategic paths. Based on a narrative analysis of the strategic development of incumbents in the funeral industry, we reconstruct the core components of strategic paths-strategic patterns and selfreinforcing mechanisms-and scrutinize the Internet's role in breaking these paths. We suggest that technological change helps break strategic paths by destabilizing the very self-reinforcing mechanisms that led to their emergence and reproduction in the first place. Furthermore, by showing that breaking strategic paths involves a subsequent critical event that destabilizes the strategic pattern, we advance a process understanding of how strategic paths are broken. This paper thus provides much-needed historical analyses of IS-related phenomena, offers a more precise and systematic understanding of path dependence in IS research, and yields insights into the process of how strategic paths are broken.

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Academic agility in digital innovation research: The case of mobile ICT publications within information systems 2000–2014

Cited by 39 publications

References 76 publications

The Digital Platform: A Research Agenda

The Digital Platform: A Research Agenda

The Digital Transformation of Search and Recombination in the Innovation Function: Tensions and an Integrative Framework*

The funeral industry and the Internet: on the historical emergence and destabilization of strategic paths

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