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Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Author ORCID Identifier

Christoph Brosig: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-0796

Dix Maik Gräubig: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6619-9760

Susanne Strahringer: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9465-9679

Markus Westner: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6623-880X

Abstract

For manufacturing firms, success in innovating IT-enabled services is a critical antecedent to benefiting from the digital servitization of their business models. Digital servitization literature has explored mechanisms for success in innovating IT-enabled services, indicating that the phenomenon is multifaceted and needs to be explained from multiple theoretical perspectives. We derive a conceptual model for success in innovating IT-enabled services covering its multifaceted nature by referring to knowledge-based and organizational control theory. We test this model using qualitative cases of IT-enabled service innovation initiatives in manufacturing firms and use set-theoretic analyses to account for the multifaceted nature of the phenomenon. The necessary condition analysis yields that a certain degree of service innovation capabilities is a prerequisite for success. With the results of a qualitative comparative analysis, we obtain five solution terms as causal recipes for success in innovating IT-enabled services. Our results contribute to research by offering a theory-based approach that explains the multiplicity of success in IT-enabled service innovation. Practitioners benefit from our results by understanding prerequisites and causal recipes for success while learning from unsuccessful initiatives in innovating IT-enabled services of manufacturing firms. Our study is also an example of how to rigorously calibrate qualitative data using a structured approach.

DOI

10.17705/1CAIS.05509

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