Description
Digital innovations present a major challenge for most small- and medium-sized family owned enterprises – because of their unique values and idiosyncratic beliefs around tradition and longevity. At the same time, recent research has outlined that the same characteristics can provide these enterprises with the internal sources to develop capabilities needed to pursue digital product/service, process, or business model innovations. In contemporary manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) constitute the essence of digital innovations. However, practitioners and researchers lack an understanding of how family-owned enterprises can leverage their specific characteristics to engage in cycles of innovation activities, whereas not threatening their identity. Using technology appropriation theory-lens, we provide first insights into how material, praxeological, and social dimensions strengthen each other in the unique context of Mittelstand and IIoT & AI.
Recommended Citation
Plattfaut, Ralf; Litvinova, Yulia; Wang, Haining; and Kautz, Karlheinz, "Paper-a-Thon Paper: Digital Transformation through the Appropriation of IIoT and AI – A Case Study of an Established Family-Owned Enterprise" (2022). ICIS 2022 Proceedings. 18.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/ai_business/ai_business/18
Paper-a-Thon Paper: Digital Transformation through the Appropriation of IIoT and AI – A Case Study of an Established Family-Owned Enterprise
Digital innovations present a major challenge for most small- and medium-sized family owned enterprises – because of their unique values and idiosyncratic beliefs around tradition and longevity. At the same time, recent research has outlined that the same characteristics can provide these enterprises with the internal sources to develop capabilities needed to pursue digital product/service, process, or business model innovations. In contemporary manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) constitute the essence of digital innovations. However, practitioners and researchers lack an understanding of how family-owned enterprises can leverage their specific characteristics to engage in cycles of innovation activities, whereas not threatening their identity. Using technology appropriation theory-lens, we provide first insights into how material, praxeological, and social dimensions strengthen each other in the unique context of Mittelstand and IIoT & AI.
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