Transforming Digital Inventions into Digital Innovations – A Missing Material Perspective on Technology Adoption

Chasin F, Baiyere A

Forschungsartikel in Sammelband (Konferenz) | Peer reviewed

Zusammenfassung

Technology agnosticism dominates explanations of technology adoption in digital innovation. Accordingly, technology itself plays a limited role in determining adoption success. Instead, aspects outside the inventors' control, including marketing, user perceptions, and organizational environment, decide the adoption outcome. We revisit the original innovation concept and draw attention to what we call a digital invention. Looking at the transition of a digital invention to digital innovation, we argue for a technology-affinity perspective to complement existing adoption perspectives. The new perspective emphasizes the role of conscious invention design for innovation. We find three ways in which specific invention focus can increase the invention's chances for adoption. For instance, we show that contrary to the prevalent idea of technologies enabling new ways of doing things, it is the invention's focus on enabling innate behaviors that can facilitate adoption. Past innovation and contemporary innovation in the film industry illustrate our thinking.

Details zur Publikation

Herausgeber*innenBui, Tung X.
BuchtitelProceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Seitenbereich6472-6481
VerlagUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa / Hamilton Library
ErscheinungsortHonolulu, Hawaii, USA
Titel der ReiheHawaii International Conference on System Sciences (ISSN: 2572-6862)
Statusakzeptiert / in Druck (unveröffentlicht)
Veröffentlichungsjahr2022
Sprache, in der die Publikation verfasst istEnglisch
Konferenz55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, USA, Vereinigte Staaten
ISBN978-0-9981331-5-7
DOI10.24251/HICSS.2022.783
StichwörterDigital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship, digital innovation, digital invention, innateness, technology adoption, technology affinity

Autor*innen der Universität Münster

Chasin, Friedrich
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement (Prof. Becker) (IS)