Data-driven innovation is a key pillar for economic development in the 21st century, and the role and value of data in developing new products, services and business models has gained attention. This study presents the user journeys of five data-driven start-ups, and the study discusses the opportunities and barriers the entrepreneurs have met when aiming […]
Digital transformation creates opportunities through new digital technologies, but it also pressures organizations to change the working environment. Research from the last few decades has empirically documented resistance by individuals when organizations are changed. Surprisingly, far less has been reported about individuals resisting change in the context of digital transformation. Using the Web of Science […]
Digitalization has become known as one of the biggest drivers of developments in society and has put pressure on companies to innovate their business models with emphasis on the opportunities provided by application of new digital technologies. Accordingly, there has been a major growth in business models focusing on resource exchange, referred to as sharing […]
This conceptual study seeks to bridge established theory on maturity models (MMs) and business model innovation (BMI). Extant literature discusses BMI as a source of competitive advantage (Casadesus-Masanell and Ricart 2011; Chesbrough 2007; Mitchell and Coles 2003) and potentially the most challenging type of innovation (Björkdahl and Holmén 2013, Lindgardt et al. 2009). A study […]
The current surge of new digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, and internet of things have revitalized the interest in the effects of technological changes on organizations and individuals. Linked to this interest is also the potential for efficiency gains from automation, growth through scalability and connectivity in ecosystems offered by these […]
Whereas innovation and strategy theory traditionally have been treated as two separate fields of expertise and research, this conceptual paper seeks to explore how these two fields have been interlinked in recent high-level research. Innovation research seeks to explain the process of creating new products and services. On the contrary, strategy research aims to explain […]
Our empirical study seek to identify the types of innovation capabilities required by firms to handle the digital transformation. The financial industry has already experienced the consequences of digitalization in addition to increased competition due to de-regulations. We have conducted a study of how the players in the mobile payment market are searching for dynamic […]
This empirical paper addresses the effect of digitalization on professional service firms (PSFs). In particular, we apply business model frameworks to identify important dimensions of recent disruption within this context. PSFs, such as law firms, are defined by the professional workforce they employ and the knowledge-intensive services they deliver. While the business models underpinning these […]
It has been argued that firms may utilize their resources and capabilities through the development of innovations in the form of new products, services or processes, and empirical research has confirmed that there is a positive relationship between the implementation of innovation activities and future performance of firms. Some firms prove to be better at […]
Drawing on the micro-foundations view of strategy, we examine the role of individuals in organizational learning and reveal the micro-macro interactions underpinning the emergence of a firm-level absorptive capacity. Whereas most of the absorptive capacity research focuses on interaction of external and internal environments, we emphasise the interplay between organizational and individual levels of absorptive […]