Innovation & Digital Transformation: Articles Flashcards
Joe Tidd (2006)
Evolving models of the innovation process, including:
- Five generations of innovation models
- Problems with partial views of innovation
- Discontinuity in innovation
- Innovation life cycle stages
- Innovation network types
- Innovation diffusion models
Bower & Christensen (1995)
Sustaining technologies versus disruptive technologies, including:
- Sustaining & Disruptive tech
- Down and upmarket
- Strategy to invest downmarket for established and well-managed org.
Ettlie (2006?)
How organizations react to and are impacted by innovation, includes:
- Technology S-curve & formula
- The Utterback-Abernathy Model
- Punctuated equilibrium
- Jolt theory of change
- Resource dependency Theory (RDT)
- A map of innovation research (Fiol, 1996)
- Multimode matrix for organizational interaction
Yoo et al (2010)
How digital innovation defines an organization’s business models, and how this requires a change in organizing logic and use of IT infrastructures, including:
- Unique characteristics of digital technology
- Layered-, integral- and Modular product architectures
- The Layered Modular Architecture (LMA) Continuum
- Doubly distributed character of LMA-based products
Kohli & Melville (2017)
Describe results from scientometric and systematic literature review methodologies; seven dimensions that involve digital innovation, including:
- Digital innovation actions and outcomes
- External competitive environment
- Initiate, develop, implement, exploit actions
- Internal organizational environment
- Product, service and process outcomes
Hinings et al (2018)
Define a ‘institutional theory’ that explains that organizations are not purely rational, but rather are themselves social and cultural systems, including:
- Institutional theory as an approach to understand change and innovation
- Digital organizational forms
- Digital institutional infrastructures
- Digital institutional building blocks
- Interaction between the novel and existing
Nambisan et al (2017)
Describes how research in innovation management should be adjusted to digital innovation, including:
- Less bounded innovation
- Less predefinition in innovation agency
- Less boundaries between innovation process and outcomes
- Dynamic problem-solution design pairing
- Socio-cognitive sensemaking
- Technology affordances and constraints
- Orchestration
Orlikowski (2007)
Argues that our primary ways of dealing with materiality in organizational research are conceptually problematic, and proposes an alternative approach that posits materiality as constitutive (to establish) of everyday life, including:
- Techno-centric perspective
- Human-centered perspective
- Constitutive entanglement
- Information Search & Email Push case examples
Yoo et al (2012)
Studies convergence and generativity of digital platforms and distributed innovation, including:
- Technology affordance
- Pervasive Digital Technology
- Combinatorial Innovation
- Procrastinated binding of product form and function
- Organizational implications of digital platforms and combinatorial & distributed innovation