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Dear colleagues,
Reminder: JIT's ICIS special collection on "Innovation in the
Digital
World" is still in open access until the end of the month.
Special collections are thematic selections of previously
published JIT
articles made available as open access for a limited time.
The special collection includes:
*Generative innovation: a comparison of lightweight and
heavyweight IT*
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1057/jit.2016.15>
Bendik Bygstad
This paper proposes a simple terminology for understanding and
dealing with
two current phenomena; we suggest calling them heavyweight and
lightweight
IT. Heavyweight IT denotes the well-established knowledge regime
of large
systems, developing ever more sophisticated solutions through
advanced
integration. Lightweight IT is suggested as a term for the new
knowledge
regime of mobile apps, sensors and bring-your-own-device, also
called
consumerisation and Internet-of-Things. The key aspect of
lightweight IT is
not only the cheaper and more available technology compared with
heavyweight IT, but the fact that its deployment is frequently
done by
users or vendors, bypassing the IT departments. Our theoretical
lens is
generativity, the idea that complex phenomena arise from
interactions among
basic elements. In the context of IT, generativity helps to
explain the
creative potential of flexible digital technology for
knowledgeable
professionals and users. The research questions are: how is
generativity
different in heavyweight and lightweight IT, and what is the
generative
relationship between heavyweight and lightweight IT? These
questions were
investigated through a study of four cases in the health sector.
Our
findings show that (i) generativity enfolds differently in
heavyweight and
lightweight IT and (ii) generativity in digital infrastructures is
supported by the interaction of loosely coupled heavyweight and
lightweight
IT. The practical design implication is that heavyweight and
lightweight IT
should be only loosely integrated, both in terms of technology,
standardisation and organisation.
*Copy, transform, combine: exploring the remix as a form of
innovation*
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1057/s41265-017-0043-9>
Christoph M. Flath, Sascha Friesike, Marco Wirth, Frédéric Thiesse
The reuse of existing knowledge is an indispensable part of the
creation of
novel ideas. In the creative domain knowledge reuse is a common
practice
known as “remixing”. With the emergence of open internet-based
platforms in
recent years, remixing has found its way from the world of music
and art to
the design of arbitrary physical goods. However, despite its
obvious
relevance for the number and quality of innovations on such
platforms,
little is known about the process of remixing and its contextual
factors.
This paper considers the example of Thingiverse, a platform for
the 3D
printing community that allows its users to create, share, and
access a
broad range of printable digital models. We present an explorative
study of
remixing activities that took place on the platform over the
course of six
years by using an extensive set of data on models and users. On
the
foundation of these empirically observed phenomena, we formulate a
set of
theoretical propositions and managerial implications regarding (1)
the role
of remixes in design communities, (2) the different patterns of
remixing
processes, (3) the platform features that facilitate remixes, and
(4) the
profile of the remixing platform’s users.
*The digital platform: a research agenda*
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1057/s41265-016-0033-3>
Mark de Reuver, Carsten Sørensen, Rahul C. Basole
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?
*Digital innovation and institutional entrepreneurship: Chief
Digital
Officer perspectives of their emerging role
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1057/s41265-018-0055-0>*
Sanja Tumbas, Nicholas Berente, Jan vom Brocke
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.
*The role of discourse in transforming digital infrastructures*
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0268396219831994>
Egil Øvrelid, Bendik Bygstad
Radical shifts in large information technology programmes or
digital
infrastructures are unusual, but they do occur, usually as a
consequence of
problems or misalignment. What we know less about is the role of
discourse
in these shifts. Our interest in this article is to investigate
the role of
discourse when digitalisation programmes encounter problems.
Building on
Foucault’s theory of discourse, our research question is: what is
the role
of discourse in the transformation of digital infrastructures? Our
research
approach is a critical realist case study, discussing three cases
from
eHealth innovation. We use Foucault’s archaeological methodology
to
identify the emerging discursive formations when a programme
encounters
difficulties. This enables us to analyse the causal relationship
between
discursive formations and other mechanisms in the infrastructure.
We offer
two contributions: first, we outline a framework to understand the
role of
discursive formations in digital transformation; second, we
propose a set
of configurations to explain how contextual factors and causal
mechanisms
contingently lead to the transformation of a digital
infrastructure.
*Disruption as worldview change: A Kuhnian analysis of the digital
music
revolution*
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0268396219835101>
Kai Riemer, Robert B. Johnston
Why is it that technology-enabled industry disruptions appear
entirely
inevitable with hindsight, yet practitioners in disrupted
businesses
typically struggle to detect and respond appropriately to
disruption while
it is unfolding? We term this surprising contradiction
‘interpretive
discontinuity’ and use it to problematize the established
understanding of
disruption in the literature. We suggest that the contradiction at
the
heart of interpretive discontinuity holds an important key to what
exactly
changes during disruption and why. By juxtaposing an empirical
case of
disruption in the music industry with theoretical resources
sensitive to
the nature of radical change – Thomas Kuhn’s work in the unrelated
field of
scientific practice – we demonstrate that it is productive to
understand
disruption as a Kuhnian paradigm shift. We are then able to trace
interpretive discontinuity to the gestalt switch in worldview that
accompanies such a paradigm shift. This insight sheds new light on
both
what is actually ‘disruptive’ about disruption and also on the
limitations
of prior work theorizing disruption. Our work is important because
it adds
to the literature on disruptive innovation important yet
overlooked
conceptual tools in Kuhn’s work – the role of exemplars, the
worldview
aspect of a paradigm, and paradigm incommensurability.
Special Issue Call for Papers:
*Regulation in the Age of Digitalization
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(deadline
2020-12-31)
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Best wishes
Daniel
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