Championing digital innovation success : The role of CDOs

Creators: Drechsler, Katharina L. and Hund, Axel and Wagner, Heinz-Theo
Title: Championing digital innovation success : The role of CDOs
Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item
Event Title: (Proceedings of the) 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)
Event Location: Yokohama, Japan
Event Dates: June, 26-30, 2018
Projects: CROSS
Date: 2018
Divisions: Informationsmanagement
Abstract (ENG): The disruptive nature of digital innovation has led incumbent organizations to face enormous challenges and pressure. To address the fundamentally new nature of digital innovations, incumbents have established new managerial roles, such as Chief Digital Officers (CDOs), to champion innovation. We explore the role these innovation champions play for digital innovation success and argue that internal reorganization and the sourcing of external knowledge constitute important mechanisms through which CDOs might contribute to organizations’ digital innovation success. We will empirically test our proposed research model using longitudinal data on the world’s largest companies. Our study is expected to contribute to literature on knowledge recombination and innovation management by examining how innovation champions at the C-level use internal reorganization and sourcing of external knowledge to enhance digital innovation success.
Forthcoming: No
Language: English
Citation:

Drechsler, Katharina L. and Hund, Axel and Wagner, Heinz-Theo (2018) Championing digital innovation success : The role of CDOs. In: (Proceedings of the) 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), June, 26-30, 2018, Yokohama, Japan.

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