Strategizing information systems-enabled organizational transformation: A transdisciplinary review and new directions

By Patrick Besson, Frantz Rowe. Journal of strategic information systems, 2012

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Unpacking the Difference Between Digital Transformation and IT-Enabled Organizational Transformation (2021, background): “…rich and insightful body of work, offering frameworks and explanations to improve the understanding of when and why IT-related transformation processes are successful and how these processes develop over time (for overviews, see, e.g., Besson & Rowe, 2012; Crowston & Myers, 2004; Orlikowski, 1996).”
Paradoxes and the Nature of Ambidexterity in IT Transformation Programs (2015, background): “However, we still have a significant gap in our understanding of the specific managerial challenges and complexities involved in executing IT transformation programs (Besson and Rowe 2012).”
Preparing Workplaces for Digital Transformation: An Integrative Review and Framework of Multi-Level Factors (2021, methodology): “…transformation, recent research suggests that digital transformation is a process of deep, structural change that occurs through the integration of multiple technologies and fundamentally redeﬁnes organizational value and identity (Besson and Rowe, 2012; Skog et al., 2018; Wessel et al., 2020).”
A Systematic Review of the Literature on Digital Transformation: Insights and Implications for Strategy and Organizational Change (2020, background): “In addition, data-driven operations and decisions might, at the very least, mitigate cognitive sources of inertia (Besson and Rowe, 2012).”
Big data analytics capabilities: a systematic literature review and research agenda (2017, background): “In a recent literature review, Besson and Rowe (2012) indicate that when it comes to organizational transformation there are ﬁve main types of inertia that hinder the value of IS.”
e-Leadership through strategic alignment: an empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age (2016, background): “Besson and Rowe (2012) conducted a 20-year review of the literature on IT-enabled organisational transformation, concluding that relatively little attention was paid to examining the effects of leadership on such transformation.”
Digital transformation strategy making in pre-digital organizations: The case of a financial services provider (2019, background): “For pre-digital organizations, digital transformation is a holistic form of business transformation enabled by information systems (IS) that is accompanied by fundamental economic and technological changes at both the organizational and industry-level (Besson and Rowe, 2012; Crowston and Myers, 2004”
Developing a unified definition of digital transformation (2021, background): “…Gray and Rumpe, 2017; Haffke et al., 2016; Matt et al., 2015; Morakanyane, Grace, & O ’ Reilly, 2017; Van Veldhoven and Vanthienen, 2019), its implications at multiple levels of analysis (Vial, 2019), as well as inconsistencies in the existing literature (Besson and Rowe, 2012; Cha and Lee, 2013).”
Conceptualizing Digital Transformation in Business Organizations: A Systematic Review of Literature (2017, background): “Operational Processes Bharadwaj, et.al. (2013); Lucas, et.al. (2013); Luna-Reyes & Gil-Garcia (2014); Matt, et.al. (2015); Mithas, et.al. (2013); Schuchmann & Seufert (2015); Westerman et.al. (2011); Hansen et.al. (2011); Berman & Marshall (2014); Chen et.”
The Effects of Digital Transformation on Firm Performance: Evidence from China’s Manufacturing Sector (2021, background): “After the DT is launched, the integration costs will rise sharply, leading to a significant increase in management expenses [20].”
Debating big data: A literature review on realizing value from big data (2017, background): “In this respect, we highlight the importance of methodological approaches that capture the process of business model innovation from ‘‘the inside” at the time of their occurence (Besson and Rowe, 2012; Tsoukas and Chia, 2002).”
Digital transformation by SME entrepreneurs: A capability perspective (2018, methodology): “With this model, we hope to answer the call for more IS research that “ describe(s) and conceptualize(s) the process of transformation when studying such a phenomenon ” (Besson & Rowe, 2012, p. 114).”
Exploring the relationships between IT competence, innovation capacity and organizational agility (2017, background): “Such convergence enables the synergistic integration of IT and business knowledge (Boynton et al., 1994), which in turn improves the identification and development of appropriate IT platforms (Reich and Benbasat, 1990).”