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Introduction
No full textOn the basis of these two dimensions – breadth and diversity – a theoretical framework is advanced and explained in the light of the special issue contributions
Digital Transformation and Innovation Management: A Synthesis of Existing Research and an Agenda for Future Studies
No full textManagement and organizational scholars have paid increasing attention to the interconnections between digital transformation and innovation management in the last decade. However, a highly fragmented understanding of this topic is what we are left with so far. In this editorial, we suggest an approach to open up the black box of the interplay between digital transformation and innovation management by providing a framework that identifies three levels of analyisis (i.e., macro, meso, and micro) along which existing and future research on the topic can be organized. This model encourages scholars to conduct theoretical and empirical studies on how digital transformation affects ecosystems’ structure and governance, how industries and firms compete and organize for innovation in a digitalized world, how the processes for developing new products and services change under the effect of digital technologies, and the implications of digital transformation on managing people and teams involved in the innovation process, among the other topics. We also provide a synthesis of the eight papers published in the Special Issue that this editorial introduces and develop an agenda for future research that will hopefully contribute to encourage and shape future scholarly efforts into this field
The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities
No full textThis present editorial illustrates the recent evolution of strategy, organization and entrepreneurship in smart city. Referring to strategy, integrated smart city strategies aim to connect the physical space of cities with the economic and social sphere – a connection that although clearly existing, has always been troublesome for scientists and policy makers. Referring to organization, the interplay between theorizing and researching in the context of smart cities and will offer an improved understanding of how organization theories apply to complex ICT-related urban transformations and the societal challenge of enabling smart city development. Referring to entrepreneurship, a synchronization among the actors is necessary to make entrepreneurial activities flourishing and conducive of a ‘smarter’ smartification of cities. The editorial ends by providing a short summary of the six articles included in the special issue
How does artificial intelligence enable and enhance value co-creation in industrial markets? An exploratory case study in the healthcare ecosystem
No full textThe technological revolution brought about from the digital transformation is dramatically reshaping how firms co-create value in B2B industrial markets. Among the many forms digital technologies can take, artificial intelligence is having the strongest pervasive impact. Relying upon empirical evidence stemming from a case study in the healthcare industry, our research aims at understanding how different types of artificial intelligence-based solutions support firms in co-creating value in B2B industrial markets. We advance an integrative framework having two iterative loops. The first iterative loop connects the technology service providers with the healthcare customers, showing how artificial intelligence-based customer-centric solutions are co-created through perceptive and responsive mechanisms; the second iterative loop connects the healthcare customers with the patients, enhancing operational practices through users’ knowledge and resulting in better care and improved patient journey. Implications for theory and practice are discussed and ideas for future research are presented
An integrative review of innovations in the agricultural sector: The roles of agency, structure, and their dynamic interplay
No full texthe aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of the roles of individuals and the importance of their
social contexts in shaping the dynamics of technological diffusion in the agricultural sector. When justifying the
different rates of innovation adoption, existing literature reviews overemphasize either the drivers of techno-
logical changes enacted by farmers' agentic behaviour or the cognitive processes of individual farmers and their
social contexts (structures). However, they continue to have a fragmented view of how local social systems and
the agentic behaviour of individual actors influence the evolution of technological regimes, and they lack the
ability to describe a purposeful interplay between agency and structures. We present an integrative review of the
most relevant papers published in the last 20 years and discuss the impact of structures and agency emerging
from local social systems on the local innovation process and, as a result, the evolution of technological regimes.
The identified macro categories describe the main processes affecting individuals' abilities to mobilize and
manage local resources for innovation, allowing us to critically assess the stock of previous developments from a
new perspective and identify novel research avenues.
1. Introduction
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development explicitly states that
scaling up agricultural innovation requires more than new technology.
Governments, in collaboration with academia, civil society, farming
organizations, and the private sector, must create the conditions for the
innovation process to thrive by connecting these various actors,
strengthening the capacity of farmers and other stakeholders, and
providing incentives for innovation. Indeed, institutions can be viewed
as a prerequisite for a strategic agency to act, while institutionalized
structures shaping individuals' social embeddedness in the social
network, informal rules, and taken-for-granted scripts can be interpreted
as conditions of pressures on strategic agents who, identifying con-
straints in the achievement of efficient outcomes, may violate institu-
tionalized rules, structures, and strategies. Therefore, institutions can
play a dual role by providing both a foundation for strategic agency to
act in a complex system and a groundwork for emergent and better
options to flourish while violating established institutions. In the same
vein, we contend that the processes of democratization of innovation, in
which people are encouraged to mobilize and manage their own
resources with institutions acting as enablers, pass through a dynamic
interplay between institutional pressures, strategic agency, and the
organizational change that farmers embrace or may drive through the
“embedded process of social engagement” facilitating people in-
teractions (Emirbayer and Mische, 1998a, 1998b: 962–963). Its analysis
necessitates an integrative approach in which both structures and
agency are presented as drivers of the evolution of an innovation regime,
as they destabilize each other while remaining interdependent and
controlled by a political-strategic process in which institutions, elites,
and structure collaborate (Collier, 1999).
Previous literature reviews on agricultural innovation have placed a
strong emphasis on the drivers of technological changes enacted by
farmers' agentic behaviour. When justifying the different rates and fre-
quencies of innovation adoption in the agricultural sector, some other
literature reviews have begun to pay attention to the cognitive processes
of individual farmers and their social contexts (structures) (see for
instance Molina-Maturano et al., 2019, El Bilali, 2018, Devaux et al.,
2018). However, they continue to have a fragmented view of how local
social systems and the agentic behaviour of individual actors influence
the evolution of technological regimes, and they lack the ability t
Digital Platform and Complementors: An Empirical Analysis Based on YouTube Content Creators
Full text linkPushing the Efficiency Frontier Out: Hoe the Italian Healthcare is Evolving Towards Organizational Ambidexterity through IT/IS
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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