Digitalization, innovative work behavior and extended availability

Elisabeth Nöhammer () and Stefan Stichlberger
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Elisabeth Nöhammer: UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
Stefan Stichlberger: UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology

Journal of Business Economics, 2019, vol. 89, issue 8, No 8, 1214 pages

Abstract: Abstract Digitalization has tremendous positive, but also negative potential for the organization and individual employees. The basic question therefore is how to design a digitalized environment that fosters idea generation and development and ensures good working practices of employees. In order to understand the requirements for the latter, the current implications of digitalization on employees have to be understood. This is of specific importance for expert organizations as these are dependent on product and service innovation as competitive advantage. In this paper, we focus on the antecedents of a very specific outcome of digitalization related to employee behavior with postulated influence on innovative capacity: extended availability and subsequent insufficient detachment with its potential consequences. Since the drivers and the extent of extended availability for work have not been sufficiently researched so far, the basis for developing solutions is incomplete. In this paper, we therefore investigate the working habits and reasons related to extended work related availability. Based on a quantitative investigation in three steps and using structural equation modelling, we show the interaction between the drivers of extended availability and the resulting additional time spent for working in expert organizations. By doing so, our research contributes to the discussion of optimizing the degree of digitalization employed or promoted in organization and establishes the link between the digitalized work setting, observed behavior, and its reasons.

Keywords: Digitalization; Innovative work behavior; Extended availability; Employees; Drivers; Detachment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 J81 M54 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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