Digital Business Transformation: Organizing, Managing and Controlling in the Information Age

✍ Scribed by Rocco Agrifoglio, Rita Lamboglia, Daniela Mancini, Francesca Ricciardi

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Series: Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation 38
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The recent surge of interest in “digital transformation” is changing the business landscape and posing several challenges, both organizational and sectoral. This transformation involves the application of digital technology in all aspects of business, and enables organizations to create new products and services, and to find more efficient ways of doing business.

Moreover, the digital transformation is happening within and across organizations of all types and in every industry, producing a disruptive innovation that can break down the barriers between people and organizations, and help create more adaptive processes. In the information age, it is imperative for organizations to develop IT-related capabilities that allow them to leverage the potential of digital technologies. Due to the pervasive effects of this transformation on processes, firms and industries, both scholars and practitioners are interested in better understanding the key mechanisms behind the emergence and evolution of the digital business transformation.

This book presents a collection of research papers focusing on the relationships between technologies (e.g., digital platforms, AI, blockchain, etc.), processes (e.g., decision-making, co-creation, financial, compliance, etc.), and organizations (e.g., smart organizations, digital ecosystems, Industry 4.0, collaborative networked organizations, etc.), which have been categorized into three major areas: organizing, managing and controlling. It also provides critical insights into how the digital transformation is enhancing organizational processes and firms’ performance through an exploration and exploitation of internal resources, and through the establishment of external connections and linkages.

The plurality of views offered makes this book particularly relevant for users, companies, scientists, and governments. The content of the book is based on a selection of the best papers (original double-blind peer-reviewed contributions) presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the AIS, which was held in Naples, Italy in September 2019.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Firm Performance: Exploring the Mediating Effect of Process-Oriented Dynamic Capabilities (Serge-Lopez Wamba-Taguimdje, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Jean Robert Kala Kamdjoug, Chris Emmanuel Tchatchouang Wanko)....Pages 3-18
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Portfolio Management (Elena Beccalli, Viktor Elliot, Francesco Virili)....Pages 19-30
Putting Decision Mining into Context: A Literature Study (Sam Leewis, Koen Smit, Martijn Zoet)....Pages 31-46
Cloud Sourcing and Paradigm Shift in IT Governance: Evidence from the Financial Sector (Niloofar Kazemargi, Paolo Spagnoletti)....Pages 47-61
Data-Imagined Decision Making in Organizations: Do Visualization Tools Run in the Family? (Angela Locoro, Aurelio Ravarini)....Pages 63-76
IT Investment Decisions in Industry 4.0: Evidences from SMEs (Niloofar Kazemargi, Paolo Spagnoletti)....Pages 77-92
Creating a New Innovation Orientation Through Idea Competitions (Hanne Westh Nicolajsen, Ada Scupola)....Pages 93-104
Front Matter ....Pages 105-105
Accounting Information Systems: The Scope of Blockchain Accounting (Iacopo Ennio Inghirami)....Pages 107-120
Understanding Blockchain Adoption in Italian Firms (Adele Caldarelli, Luca Ferri, Gianluca Ginesti, Rosanna Spanò)....Pages 121-135
Improving Invoice Allocation in Accounting—An Account Recommender Case Study Applying Machine Learning (Markus Esswein, Joerg H. Mayer, Diana Sedneva, Daniel Pagels, Jean-Paul Albers)....Pages 137-153
Performance-Based Funding in the Italian Higher Education: A Critical Analysis (Alberto Ezza, Nicoletta Fadda, Gianfranco Pischedda, Ludovico Marinò)....Pages 155-170
Front Matter ....Pages 171-171
Organizational Impacts on Sustainability of Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review from Empirical Case Studies (Emanuele Gabriel Margherita, Alessio Maria Braccini)....Pages 173-186
Industry 4.0 and the Global Digitalised Production. Structural Changes in Manufacturing (Giovanna Morelli, Cesare Pozzi, Antonia R. Gurrieri)....Pages 187-204
Managing Online Communities and E-WOM: Prosumers’ Characteristics and Behaviors in the Food Service Sector (Claudia Dossena, Francesca Mochi)....Pages 205-217
Identification of IT-Needs to Cope with Dynamism in Collaborative Networked Organizations—A Case Study (Ronald van den Heuvel, Rogier van de Wetering, Rik Bos, Jos Trienekens)....Pages 219-236
Unwrapping Efforts and Difficulties of Enterprises for Digital Transformation (Haruka Ikegami, Junichi Iijima)....Pages 237-250
Coordinating Innovation in Digital Infrastructure: The Case of Transforming Offshore Project Delivery (Mina Haghshenas, Thomas Østerlie)....Pages 251-266
Front Matter ....Pages 267-267
Organizational Capabilities for Social Media Management: How Restaurant Managers Approach to the Digital Ecosystem (Claudia Dossena, Francesca Mochi)....Pages 269-284
Achieving Trust, Relational Governance and Innovation in Information Technology Outsourcing Through Digital Collaboration (Giovanni Vaia, William DeLone, Daria Arkhipova, Anna Moretti)....Pages 285-300
In Vino Veritas? Blockchain Preliminary Effects on Italian Wine SMEs (Roberta Cuel, Gabriella Maria Cangelosi)....Pages 301-314
Digital Competences for Civil Servants and Digital Ecosystems for More Effective Working Processes in Public Organizations (Nunzio Casalino, Tommaso Saso, Barbara Borin, Enrica Massella, Flavia Lancioni)....Pages 315-326
Back Matter ....Pages 327-328

✦ Subjects

Business and Management; Business Information Systems; Organization; Innovation/Technology Management; Accounting/Auditing; Information Systems and Communication Service; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology