How companies configure digital innovation attributes for business model innovation? A configurational view

Cong Cheng and Limin Wang

Technovation, 2022, vol. 112, issue C

Abstract: Digital innovation (DI) has garnered considerable attention across a broad array of literatures. However, empirical evidence about the impact of DI on business model innovation (BMI) is sparse with frameworks probably not fully capturing the complexities of DI attributes. We use the fuzzy-set approach by conducting qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to explore the configurations of DI attributes and IT infrastructure capability that exist among the 167 manufacturing and service firms in China that undergoes different levels of BMI. Results reveal that DI attributes work in three pathways to promote BMI, including organization-oriented with emphasis on improvisation, product-oriented by focusing on user experience and value proposition, and product-organization complemented. When to additionally include IT infrastructure capability for deeper analysis, results demonstrate three more representative configurations among DI attributes and IT infrastructure capability to facilitate BMI: IT-enabled organization-product orchestration, IT-enabled product-organization orchestration, and IT-dominated orchestration. This research contributes to DI literature by uncovering the configurations among DI attributes in promoting BMI, and clarifying the complicated interacting effects between DI attributes and IT infrastructure capability to facilitate BMI.

Keywords: DI attributes; IT infrastructure Capability; Business model innovation; fsQCA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102398

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