MIS Quarterly· 2017Q1
Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing Innovation Management Research in a Digital World
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This paper proposes four new theorizing logics to address how rapid digitization fundamentally challenges existing innovation management theories and their core assumptions.
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Key points
- Digitization challenges core assumptions in innovation management theories.
- Four new theorizing logics are proposed for digital innovation management.
- These logics aim to create more accurate explanations for digital innovation processes and outcomes.
- The paper seeks to reinvent innovation management research for the digital era.
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Abstract
Rapid and pervasive digitization of innovation processes and outcomes has upended extant theories on innovation management by calling into question fundamental assumptions about the definitional boundaries for innovation, agency for innovation, and the relationship between innovation processes and outcomes. There is a critical need for novel theorizing on digital innovation management that does not rely on such assumptions and draws on the rich and rapidly emerging research on digital technologies. We offer suggestions for such theorizing in the form of four new theorizing logics, or elements, that are likely to be valuable in constructing more accurate explanations of innovation processes and outcomes in an increasingly digital world. These logics can open new avenues for researchers to contribute to this important area. Our suggestions in this paper, coupled with the six research notes included in the special issue on digital innovation management, seek to offer a broader foundation for reinventing innovation management research in a digital world.
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