Extant DT related literature reviews
| Source | Journal | Perspective | Type | Articles | Analysis | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Relevance to this study |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanelt et al. (2020) | Journal of Management Studies | Organisational renewal | Systematic | 279 | Content analysis | – | – | – | DT moves firms toward malleable organizational designs that enable continuous adaptation that is ongoing, evolving, and cumulative |
| Verhoef et al. (2021) | Journal of Business Research | Organisational renewal | Systematic | n/a | Thematic analysis | – | – | – | Clarifies DT from digitisation and digitalisation, emphasising importance of agile and flexible organisational structures |
| Vial (2019) | Journal of Strategic Information Systems | Organisational renewal | Systematic | 282 | Grounded theory | – | ✔ | – | DT as a process of strategic responses from firms to alter their value creation paths while managing the structural changes and barriers that affect the positive and negative outcomes of this process, including various forms of inertia and resistance as firms innovate |
| Volberda et al. (2021) | Long Range Planning | Organisational renewal | Narrative | n/a | Conceptual | – | ✔ | ✔ | Emphasises the cognitive tensions that firms experience in DT as firms move away from pre-digital mindsets, routines, and structures |
| Annarelli et al. (2021) | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | Innovation | Systematic | 118 | Bibliometric (co-citation) and Content Analysis | – | – | – | Focuses on digitalization capabilities (i.e., digital integration capabilities, digital platform capabilities, and digital innovation capabilities) as a micro-foundational pre-cursor to DT outcomes |
| Appio et al. (2021) | Journal of Product Innovation Management | Innovation | Systematic | 95 | Keyword co-occurrence | – | – | - | DT at the firm level focuses on structuring capabilities, processes, and routines |
| Lanzolla et al. (2020) | Journal of Product Innovation Management | Innovation | Systematic | 171 | Content analysis | - | - | ✔ | Knowledge based tensions arise from search and recombination processes in DT affecting innovation outcomes. |
| Nadkarni and Prügl (2020) | Management Review Quarterly | Actors | Systematic | 58 | Thematic analysis | – | – | – | Identifies technology and actor as the two aggregate dimensions of DT and finds corporate entrepreneurship provides a holistic framework for research |
| Larson and DeChurch (2020) | The Leadership Quarterly | Actors | Narrative | n/a | Conceptual | ✔ | ✔ | – | Actors involved in DT need to develop strong affective emergent states like trust and cohesion, develop cognitive emergent states like shared mental models and transactive memory systems, and the need to enact behavioural integration processes |
| Source | Journal | Perspective | Type | Articles | Analysis | Relevance to this study | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Management Studies | Organisational renewal | Systematic | 279 | Content analysis | – | – | – | DT moves firms toward malleable organizational designs that enable continuous adaptation that is ongoing, evolving, and cumulative | |
| Journal of Business Research | Organisational renewal | Systematic | n/a | Thematic analysis | – | – | – | Clarifies DT from digitisation and digitalisation, emphasising importance of agile and flexible organisational structures | |
| Journal of Strategic Information Systems | Organisational renewal | Systematic | 282 | Grounded theory | – | ✔ | – | DT as a process of strategic responses from firms to alter their value creation paths while managing the structural changes and barriers that affect the positive and negative outcomes of this process, including various forms of inertia and resistance as firms innovate | |
| Long Range Planning | Organisational renewal | Narrative | n/a | Conceptual | – | ✔ | ✔ | Emphasises the cognitive tensions that firms experience in DT as firms move away from pre-digital mindsets, routines, and structures | |
| Technological Forecasting and Social Change | Innovation | Systematic | 118 | Bibliometric (co-citation) and Content Analysis | – | – | – | Focuses on digitalization capabilities (i.e., digital integration capabilities, digital platform capabilities, and digital innovation capabilities) as a micro-foundational pre-cursor to DT outcomes | |
| Journal of Product Innovation Management | Innovation | Systematic | 95 | Keyword co-occurrence | – | – | - | DT at the firm level focuses on structuring capabilities, processes, and routines | |
| Journal of Product Innovation Management | Innovation | Systematic | 171 | Content analysis | - | - | ✔ | Knowledge based tensions arise from search and recombination processes in DT affecting innovation outcomes. | |
| Management Review Quarterly | Actors | Systematic | 58 | Thematic analysis | – | – | – | Identifies technology and actor as the two aggregate dimensions of DT and finds corporate entrepreneurship provides a holistic framework for research | |
| The Leadership Quarterly | Actors | Narrative | n/a | Conceptual | ✔ | ✔ | – | Actors involved in DT need to develop strong affective emergent states like trust and cohesion, develop cognitive emergent states like shared mental models and transactive memory systems, and the need to enact behavioural integration processes |
Note(s):
= cognitive technologies
= employee mindset
= socio-cognitive paradoxes
Source(s): Authors’ own work
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