Digitalization

Georg von Krogh, Manuel von Krosigk and Uriel Stettner

Chapter 4.13 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 410-414 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) research focuses on the micro-level social activities, processes, and practices that delineate strategy and strategizing. The essence of understanding digitalization in this context lies in the dynamics of human interactions with tools and technologies within firms. Digital technologies represent combinations of information, computing, communication, and connectivity technologies that fundamentally transform organizations, business strategies, processes, firm capabilities, products, and services, as well as relationships between firms. Digital technologies have affordances that shape the ways technologies can or ought to be utilized, guiding the interaction between technology and individuals, organizations, and societies, which extend beyond those associated with prior generations of information technologies. A distinctive attribute of digital technologies setting them apart from many other novel technologies is their emergent nature. This means that they are subject to continuous change and adaptation by design.

Keywords: Digitalization; Technologies; Affordances; Data; Transformation; Artificial Intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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