Digital Business Transformation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (DBTIE)
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2018-08-01
影响因子: 5.155
期刊难度:
CCF分类: C类
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 管理学 - 2区
• 小类 : 计算机:信息系统 - 1区
• 小类 : 图书情报与档案管理 - 2区
• 小类 : 管理学 - 2区
Overview
Innovation and entrepreneurship are tightly coupled concepts. As stated by Drucker (1998), “Innovation is the specific tool of Entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as opportunity of a different [new] business or a different [new] service… Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovations, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation”. The modern IT like social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) and emerging aspects like bigdata and internet-of-things is changing the way innovation and entrepreneurship are conceived, initiated and executed and managed. The rise and growth of firms such as Uber, Airbnb and Alibaba.com are strongly attributed to the advancements in digital technologies (Tan et al. 2016). Such examples epitome characteristics of digital technologies and platforms like accessibility, availability, ease-of-use and ease-of-deployment which purport to transform the very nature of how companies innovate using modern digital technologies and how entrepreneurship is facilitated.
Herein, digital technologies have provided the firms with low capital intensity, an opportunity to innovate in a similar fashion as their resourceful counterparts (Tan et al. 2016), challenging the traditional equation of IT sophistication and resource availability (Dobbs et al. 2015; Nylén and Holmström 2015). Moreover, the innovation potential of firms is said to have been augmented by the substantial growth in consumerization of IT, through which technologies have become accessible to average citizens as a commodity (Harris et al. 2012; Weiß and Leimeister 2012).
Overall, the opportunities for digital business transformation through digital technologies for innovation and entrepreneurship purport to provide unique opportunities to organizations of all sizes, regardless of their resources, geographical constraints and organizational maturity.
However, despite the proliferation, availability, accessibility, scalability and affordability of digital technologies over the past several years, firms are still struggling to reap the full innovation and entrepreneurial potential, where new ideas still do not reach the customer due to lack of organizational readiness and lack of knowledge of the organizational strategy (Snyder-Halpern 2001; Williams 2011).
As such, more research is necessary to disentangle the intricate relationship between IT with innovation and entrepreneurship in order to comprehend how new businesses may emerge alongside technological innovations. This special issue provides an opportunity for deliberation on a broad range of topics associated with recent trends in IT innovation and entrepreneurship. Over the last decade, there is a growing research stream on IT entrepreneurship in the information systems community. IT entrepreneurship adds a further dimension to IT innovation in that it deals with how original ideas can be converted into software and hardware products and services.
Accordingly, this special issue serves as a forum for focused discussion and exchange on IT innovation and entrepreneurship. We endeavour to address crucial fundamental question of the role of digital technologies in innovation and entrepreneurship in the dynamic economic realities. The special issue is open to all methodological approaches. We especially welcome papers that identify and address knowledge gaps in (but not limited to):
- challenges and opportunities associated with leveraging IT-driven innovation activities and processes for entrepreneurship,
- effects of culture on IT innovation and entrepreneurship,
- entrepreneurial attitudes toward and motives for IT innovation,
- impact of IT entrepreneurship on for individuals, businesses, and society,
- inter-firm collaboration in IT innovation and entrepreneurship,
- novel business models anchored on IT innovation,
- relationship between emerging technologies (e.g., big data analytics, blockchain, sharing economy, social media) and entrepreneurship,
- value creation and capturing through IT innovation,
- any other topic that touch on matters related to the intersection between IT innovation and entrepreneurship.