How to Organize Digital Innovation? The Role of Involvement, Structure, and Technology

Abstract

Innovation, especially digital innovation, is indispensable for organizations that want to remain competitive. Employees play a crucial role in developing innovations, but the use of digital technologies for innovation methods that foster employee-driven innovation has rarely been researched. Using a sample of 215 participants and two innovation methods (i.e. digital, non-digital), we show that employees value a digital innovation more if they are involved in the digital innovation, the involvement follows a structured process, and the digital innovation process uses digital technologies. These results have implications for both practice and the innovation and information systems literatures.

A Structural Framework for Assessing the Digital Resilience of Enterprises in the Context of the Technological Revolution 4.0

“…It has also produced several changes in the approach to business relations as an effect of the accelerated digital transformation processes driven by the pandemic crisis [78]. At the same time, it has been shown that employees adopt digital innovations faster if they are directly involved in this process [79]. There is a significant connection between digital organizational culture and digital capabilities with digital innovation, and organizational training can be a mediator between digital capabilities, digital organizational culture, and digital innovation [80].…”