Navigating the Black Box: Generativity and Incongruences in Digital Innovation
Licentiatavhandling, 2022
Extant research provides only partial answers on how innovators navigate those challenges. Therefore, this thesis aims to generate new insight on how innovators balance generativity and incongruences in digital innovation. It is based on two empirical papers that draw upon a two-year, longitudinal single-case study of a distributed, heterogeneous innovation network engaged in leveraging digital technologies in the context of marine environment.
This thesis finds that embracing generativity increases the risk of clashes between incongruences amongst innovators. On the other hand, innovators leverage the generative potential of digital components to respond to incongruences by producing boundary objects or facilitating innovation trajectory shifts. Moreover, the appended papers illustrate how innovators may employ a non-linear innovation approach and loosely defined organizational structures to facilitate repeated shifts in their innovation trajectory. At the same time, this thesis finds that too many shifts create challenges in network coordination and maintaining a coherent strategic vision.
organizing vision
AI
incongruences
generativity
technological frames
digital innovation
innovation network
Författare
Adrian Bumann
Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
The challenges of knowledge combination in ML-based crowdsourcing - The ODF Killer shrimp challenge using ML and kaggle
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,;Vol. 2020-January(2021)p. 4930-4939
Paper i proceeding
Bumann, A., Sandberg, J. and Teigland, R. Organizing Vision Evolution in AI-based Innovation Networks
Styrkeområden
Informations- och kommunikationsteknik
Ämneskategorier
Företagsekonomi
Systemvetenskap
Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning
Utgivare
Chalmers
Brunnsparken; Zoom (Password: 151475)
Opponent: Elmira van den Broek, Asst. Prof., Handelshögskolan i Stockholm