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Digital transformation: A review and research agenda

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Plekhanov, Dmitry, Franke, Henrik, Netland, Torbjørn H.·2023·European Management Journal
DOI 10.1016/j.emj.2022.09.007
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The ongoing and ubiquitous digital transformation challenges the raison d'être of firms and forces managers to rethink business strategies and operations and academics to reconsider related theories. To aid these efforts, we conduct a systematic review of research on firms' digital transformation, generating a database of 537 peer-reviewed academic articles and analyzing it using a novel multi-layered framework. The framework separates three layers: an organization's core activities, its peripheral activities, and its external environment. We find that firms that have come far in their transformations are more embedded in platform ecosystems with unclear business boundaries. Relatedly, we identify a tension between decentralizing versus centralizing power across organizational layers during a firm's digital transformation and how this dynamic affects corporate strategies and firms' internal and external boundaries.

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Authors
Plekhanov, D., Franke, H., & Netland, T. H.
Venue
European Management Journal
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2023-12
Volume
41
Issue
6
Pages
821-844
ISSN
0263-2373 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.emj.2022.09.007
OpenAlex
W4296817181
Cited by
606
References
228
FWCI
86.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
hybrid
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