The Blurring of Industry Boundaries: an Explanatory Model Applied to Telecommunications

Background Accelerated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, major and lasting changes are occuring in healthcare structures, impacting people's experiences and value creation in all aspects of their lives. Information systems (IS) research can support analysing and anticipating resulting effects. Aim The purpose of this study is to examine in what areas health information systems (HIS) researchers can assess changes in healthcare structures and, thus, be prepared to shape future developments. Method A hermeneutic framework is applied to conduct a literature review and to identify the contributions that IS research makes in analysing and advancing the healthcare industry. Results We draw an complexity theory by borrowing the concept of 'zooming-in and out', which provides us with a overview of the current, broad body of research in the HIS field. As a result of analysing almost 500 papers, we discovered various shortcomings of current HIS research. Contribution We derive future pathways and develop a research agenda that realigns IS research with the transformation of the healthcare industry already under way.

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“…• Why do companies engage in activities that lead to the blurring of industry boundaries (Nicholls-Nixon & Jasinski, 1995 )?…”

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confidence: 99%

Keeping pace with the healthcare transformation: a literature review and research agenda for a new decade of health information systems research

et al. 2021

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“…We also thought it would be interesting to view functional background research in light of several recent trends in corporate governance and society, which led us to ask a provocative question: “Is the entire idea of functional background becoming increasingly irrelevant?” Most of the current work in this area assumes, understandably enough, that business functions represent a stable, reliable, internally consistent structure for categorizing the majority of corporate activity. However, just as industry boundaries, structures, and characteristics have blurred over time (Nicholls-Nixon & Jasinski, 1995; Withers, Ireland, Miller, Harrison, & Boss, 2018), powerful trends such as the rise of artificial intelligence, the increased complexity of many business problems, and the need for cross-functional integration (e.g., Verganti, Vendraminelli, & Iansiti, 2020) suggest that the historical view of functional borders within organizations may be becoming obsolete. In turn, we are seeing a growing proliferation of titles in the C-suite (such as chief sustainability officer) that relate to but transcend functional categories (Alvarez & Svejenova, 2022).…”

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The Background on Executive Background: An Integrative Review

Campbell

Bilgili

Crossland

et al. 2022

Journal of Management

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This study reviews several decades of research on the topic of executive background, defined here as the total of an executive's “experience, knowledge, and education.” We consider work from both management and nonmanagement sources and from both macro and micro sources within management. Our review of 216 published empirical articles is structured around a series of widely studied executive background characteristics and categories, including tenure, functional background, knowledge and education, outsider/insider status, other professional experiences, and experiences outside the workplace. This narrative review is underpinned and informed by an inductively derived framework comprised of five key dimensions that represent distinct ways in which specific experiences can be conceptualized: visibility, timing, frequency, discreteness, and agency. We conclude our narrative review with a quantitative, bibliometric analysis illustrating some of the key patterns within the most recent work in this domain. Finally, we use the insights arising from our review to provide a set of theoretical and methodological recommendations for future work in this area.

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“…Such a focus is particularly relevant if technologies from 'outside' play a key role in the processes of transformation (Dolata 2009). This could lead to formerly unrelated sectors becoming more closely integrated, prompting actors to move across sectoral boundaries to exploit existing technological resources (Nicholls-Nixon and Jasinski 1995). The distinction between adjacent and incumbent sectors is useful in understanding the nature and direction of interactions and innovations between the ICT and electricity sectors.…”

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Governance of interactions between infrastructure sectors: The making of smart grids in the UK

Hiteva

Watson

2019

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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The Blurring of Industry Boundaries: an Explanatory Model Applied to Telecommunications

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Keeping pace with the healthcare transformation: a literature review and research agenda for a new decade of health information systems research

Keeping pace with the healthcare transformation: a literature review and research agenda for a new decade of health information systems research

The Background on Executive Background: An Integrative Review

Governance of interactions between infrastructure sectors: The making of smart grids in the UK

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