Is all technology digital? (17 February 2021)

Description

Is there a difference between digital technologies and regular IT? Are we in a new wave of technology that changes our society and business, or is it all just the same technology and we’ve been here before? Do we need to develop new theories about technology and organizing or do our old assumptions still hold? Nick and Jan explore these possibilities and try to reach a shared conclusion.

Episode Reading List

  • Baiyere, A., Avital, M., Berente, N., Henfridsson, O., Hinings, C. R., Tuertscher, P., & Yoo, Y. (2019). Digital” X”: In Need of New Theories or Do Prior Theories Suffice? 79th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Porter, M. E. (2001). The Value Chain and Competitive Advantage. In D. Barnes (Ed.), Understanding Business: Processes (pp. 50-68). Routledge.
  • Hinings, C. R., Gegenhuber, T., & Greenwood, R. (2018). Digital Innovation and Transformation: An Institutional Perspective. Information and Organization, 28(1), 52-61.
  • DiMaggio, P. J., & Powell, W. W. (1983). The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields. American Sociological Review, 48(2), 147-160.
  • Brynjolfsson, E. (1993). The Productivity Paradox of Information Technology. Communications of the ACM, 36(12), 66-77.
  • Carr, N. G. (2003). IT Doesn’t Matter. Harvard Business Review, 81(5), 41-50.
  • Vandenbosch, B., & Lyytinen, K. (2004). Much Ado About IT: a Response to “The Corrosion of IT Advantage” by Nicholas G. Carr. Journal of Business Strategy, 25(6), 10-12.
  • Davenport, T. H., & Patil, D. J. (2012). Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century. Harvard Business Review, 90(10), 70-76.
  • Wooten, M., & Hoffman, A. J. (2017). Organizational Fields: Past, Present and Future. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, T. B. Lawrence, & R. E. Meyer (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (2nd ed., pp. 55-74). Sage.
  • Banker, R. D., Hu, N., Pavlou, P. A., & Luftman, J. N. (2011). CIO Reporting Structure, Strategic Positioning, and Firm Performance. MIS Quarterly, 35(2), 487-504.
  • Vom Brocke, J. (2016). Interview with Martin Petry on ‘‘Digital Innovation for the Networked Society’’. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 58(3), 239-241.
  • Orlikowski, W. J., & Iacono, C. S. (2001). Research Commentary: Desperately Seeking the ‘IT’ in IT Research-A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact. Information Systems Research, 12(2), 121-134.
  • Yoo, Y., Henfridsson, O., & Lyytinen, K. (2010). The New Organizing Logic of Digital Innovation: An Agenda for Information Systems Research. Information Systems Research, 21(4), 724-735.
  • Woodward, J. (1965). Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press.
  • Faulkner, P., & Runde, J. (2019). Theorizing the Digital Object. MIS Quarterly, 43(4), 1279-1302.
  • Baskerville, R., Myers, M. D., & Yoo, Y. (2020). Digital First: The Ontological Reversal and New Challenges for IS Research. MIS Quarterly, 44(2), 509-523.
  • Wessel, L., Baiyere, A., Ologeanu-Taddei, R., Cha, J., & Blegind-Jensen, T. (2021). Unpacking the Difference between Digital Transformation and IT-enabled Organizational Transformation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 22(1), 102-129.

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