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Paper Number
2514
Paper Type
Short
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How can digital technology enable flexible interorganizational collaborations (IOCs)? This study investigates a challenge facing firms seeking to build highly flexible interfirm relationships to remain competitive in the digital age. It explores how flexible IOCs characterized by changing goals, organizations and organizational actors can leverage digital technology to rapidly generate interorganizational dynamic capabilities (IDCs) in the absence of pre-existing routines. Using multiple case studies of COVID-19 task forces in the US and Canada, we observe how digital generativity derives from a diverse and changing set of digital tools used together to respond to a rapidly changing environment. In doing so, this study extends digital generativity beyond digital platforms into more flexible applications of digital technology. This approach addresses a central problem in the IOC literature: how organizations competing in the digital age can shift their strategic focus from competition to collaboration (Gkeredakis & Constantinides 2019).
Recommended Citation
Dixon, Jeffrey and Brohman, Kathryn, "Digital Interorganizational Collaboration" (2022). ICIS 2022 Proceedings. 18.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/social/social/18
Digital Interorganizational Collaboration
How can digital technology enable flexible interorganizational collaborations (IOCs)? This study investigates a challenge facing firms seeking to build highly flexible interfirm relationships to remain competitive in the digital age. It explores how flexible IOCs characterized by changing goals, organizations and organizational actors can leverage digital technology to rapidly generate interorganizational dynamic capabilities (IDCs) in the absence of pre-existing routines. Using multiple case studies of COVID-19 task forces in the US and Canada, we observe how digital generativity derives from a diverse and changing set of digital tools used together to respond to a rapidly changing environment. In doing so, this study extends digital generativity beyond digital platforms into more flexible applications of digital technology. This approach addresses a central problem in the IOC literature: how organizations competing in the digital age can shift their strategic focus from competition to collaboration (Gkeredakis & Constantinides 2019).
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