Overview of included studies
| Reference | Country | Design | Purpose of data collection | Industry | Factors studied | Sub-factor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed et al. (2024) | France | Quantitative | Examine the impact of digital leadership perceptions on employees' innovative work behaviors | Automotive | Digital leadership | Leadership style |
| Allataifeh et al. (2021) | Malaysia | Qualitative | Explain how digital innovation unfolds in practice | ICT | Digital innovation process | Digital innovation process |
| Allataifeh and Moghavvemi (2021) | Malaysia | Qualitative | Demonstrate the importance of engaging market actors at each stage of innovation | ICT | Role of actors during digital innovation process | Digital innovation process |
| Bäcklund et al. (2024) | Sweden | Qualitative | Increase understanding of innovation and dynamic capabilities in real estate owner organizations | Real estate | Digital innovation process | Digital innovation process |
| Bockelmann et al. (2024) | The USA | Quantitative | Examine the impact of alliance portfolio configurations on firms' ability to create digital innovations | Industrial | Alliance portfolio configurations | Digital innovation networks |
| Cheng and Wang (2022) | China | Qualitative | Explore configurations of digital innovation attributes and IT infrastructure capability | Manufacturing and services | Configurations of digital innovation attributes and IT infrastructure capability | Digital innovation strategy |
| Coskun-Setirek and Tanrikulu (2021) | Multiple | Qualitative | Develop a process model of digital-innovation-driven business model regeneration | Multiple | Process model of digital-innovations-driven business model regeneration | Digital innovation strategy |
| Curzi et al. (2019) | Italy | Quantitative | Identify which characteristics of performance appraisal are likely to be perceived as promoting individual innovation at work | Multiple | Innovative work behaviors | Digital innovative workforce |
| Del Giudice et al. (2021) | Italy | Quantitative | Investigate how digital innovation is influenced by the three pillars of self-tuning models' agility, adaptation, and ambidexterity | Smart manufacturing | Self-tuning model | Organizational structure |
| Denicolai and Previtali (2023) | Italy | Qualitative | Explore how the design of an innovation strategy affects the execution of change and digital innovation | Healthcare | Design of innovation strategy | Digital innovation strategy |
| Duerr et al. (2018) | Germany | Qualitative | Explore the artifacts, exposed beliefs and values, and underlying assumptions of a digital organizational culture | Multiple | Digital organizational culture | Digital innovation culture |
| Erhan et al. (2022) | Turkey | Quantitative | Demonstrate the relationship between digitization of leadership and innovative work behaviors | Textile | Innovative work behaviors | Digital innovative workforce |
| Firk et al. (2022) | The USA | Quantitative | Explore the influence of TMT characteristics (i.e., needed knowledge, roles, and structures) of digital innovation | Industrial | Top management team characteristics | Management characteristics |
| Gonçalves et al. (2020) | Sweden, The USA | Qualitative | Understand how cultural aspects of organizational agility affect digital innovation capability | Automotive | Cultural aspects of organizational agility | Digital innovation culture |
| Gonçalves et al. (2022) | Sweden, The USA | Qualitative | Clarify how startups use digital tools to strengthen digital innovation capability | Automotive and mobility | Digital tools | IT infrastructure |
| Hanelt et al. (2021) | Multiple | Quantitative | Theorize about the link between digital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and its consequences on digital innovation | Automotive | Digital M&A | Digital innovation strategy |
| Heubeck and Meckl (2022) | Germany | Quantitative | Examine the relationship between dynamic managerial capabilities and digital firms' innovativeness | Manufacturing | Dynamic managerial capabilities | Management characteristics |
| Holmström et al. (2021) | Sweden | Qualitative | Identify how academic units work as intermediaries in networks for digital innovation | Unknown | Heterogeneous networks | Digital innovation networks |
| Holotiuk and Beimborn (2019) | Qualitative | Analyze digital innovation labs' contributions to ambidexterity for digital innovation | Multiple | Digital innovation labs | Organizational structure | |
| Holotiuk (2020) | Unknown | Qualitative | Explain how a digital innovation lab helps firms balance exploration and exploitation, and how ambidexterity contributes to digital innovation success | Financial service | Digital innovation lab | Organizational structure |
| Iden et al. (2020) | Multiple | Quantitative | Investigate whether PRFs act as institutional arrangements for digital service innovation | Unknown | Institutional arrangements | Digital innovation culture |
| Khin and Ho (2019) | Malaysia | Quantitative | Examine the effect of digital orientation and capability on digital innovation | IT | Digital orientation | Digital orientation |
| Kő et al. (2022) | Hungarian | Quantitative | Discuss the role of digital agility and digital competitiveness in SMEs' innovative performance in the context of a digitally turbulent environment | Multiple | Digital agility | Digital innovation culture |
| Lee and Tan (2023) | Singapore | Qualitative | Scrutinize individual learning strategies and the enablers and challenges of using them during digital innovation | Multiple | Workplace learning strategies | Environment for learning |
| Leonhardt et al. (2017) | The UK, The USA | Quantitative | Examine the role of IT agility and ambidexterity on the IT function's digitization support | Multiple | IT function | IT function's role |
| Leonhardt and Hanelt (2018) | The USA | Quantitative | Investigate the relationship between digital institutional pressure on the power of IT departments and resulting impacts on digital innovation performance | Multiple | IT department | IT function's role |
| Leonhardt et al. (2018) | The USA | Quantitative | Explore digital innovation governance configurations that achieve high digital innovation performance | Multiple | Digital innovation governance | IT governance |
| Li and Long (2023) | China | Qualitative | Investigate the collective driving forces of employee-driven digital innovation behaviors | Multiple | Employee-driven digital innovation behaviors | Digital innovative workforce |
| Lin and Yi (2024) | China | Qualitative | Investigate factors of digitalization that empower firm innovation | High-tech | Factors that empower firm innovation (i.e., technology, organization, and environmental) | IT infrastructure |
| Liu et al. (2023) | China | Qualitative | Investigate whether combinations of organizational environments and work characteristics foster employees' innovative behaviors | Industrial | Innovative work behaviors | Digital innovative workforce |
| Mancha and Shankaranarayanan (2021) | The USA | Quantitative | Explore antecedents of individual digital innovativeness | Education | Digital innovativeness | Digital innovative workforce |
| Mann et al. (2019) | The USA | Qualitative | Provide insights into lessons learned from a digital design lab that supports digital health innovation | Healthcare | Digital design lab | Organizational structure |
| Mittermeier et al. (2021) | Unknown | Qualitative | Construct a conceptual model of digital innovation success | Multiple | Critical success factors during digital innovation process | Digital innovation process |
| Müller et al. (2019) | Denmark | Mixed methods | Investigate the relationship between organizational culture and digital innovation | Media | Organizational culture | Digital innovation culture |
| Nassani et al. (2023) | Unknown | Quantitative | Explore the impact of technology orientation on digital innovation and innovation performance | Electronic | Technology orientation | Digital orientation |
| Nassani et al. (2022) | Unknown | Quantitative | Explore how firms achieve innovation performance using innovation networks | Energy | Innovation networks | Digital innovation networks |
| Ngereja and Hussein (2021) | Multiple | Qualitative | Examine organizations' preconditions of learning when achieving innovation in digitalization projects | Multiple | Employee learning | Environment for learning |
| Pittenger et al. (2022) | Unknown | Quantitative | Examine the influence of IT transformational leadership on digital innovation | Unknown | Transformational leadership | Leadership style |
| Rincon et al. (2020) | Unknown | Mixed methods | Examine how IT governance shapes an organization's capacity to continuously innovate digitally | Oil and gas | IT governance | IT governance |
| Santarsiero et al. (2022) | Italy | Qualitative | Discuss the role innovation labs play as innovative management models to foster digital and continuous innovation in organizations of the digital ecosystem | Tourism | Innovation lab | Organizational structure |
| Schiffer et al. (2023) | Germany | Qualitative | Explore how to manage IT challenges to scale digital innovations | Insurer | Digital innovation process | Digital innovation process |
| Sedera et al. (2016) | Multiple | Quantitative | Understand how digital and enterprise system platforms attain innovation | Multiple | Enterprise system platform and digital platform | Digital infrastructure |
| Shao et al. (2024) | China | Quantitative | Examine leadership's impact on employees' job performance | Multiple | Transformational supervisory leadership | Leadership style |
| Shibeika and Harty (2015) | The UK | Qualitative | Understand how organizations mobilize resources and build capabilities to diffuse digital innovation | Engineering | Firm-project interface | Environment for learning |
| Sia et al. (2016) | Asia | Qualitative | Explore how a large bank responded to digital threats and opportunities using a digital business strategy | Banking | Digital business strategy | Digital innovation strategy |
| Silvestri et al. (2023) | Europe | Qualitative | Analyze how business networking during R&D affects the digital innovation of agro-food SMEs | Agro-food | Business networking | Digital innovation networks |
| Svahn et al. (2017) | Sweden | Qualitative | Explain how competing concerns emerge, manifest, and interrelate, and how firms manage them during digital innovation | Automotive | Strategic focus | Digital innovation strategy |
| Trabucchi and Buganza (2019) | The USA | Qualitative | Explore the role Big Data plays during innovation | App | Data-driven innovation process | Digital innovation process |
| van Looy (2021) | Four continents | Mixed methods | Explore how business process management plays an enabling role during digital innovation | Multiple | Digital business strategy | Digital innovation strategy |
| Wang et al. (2024) | China | Quantitative | Conceptualize ITI generativity and examine the social and technical antecedents of and their impact on digital innovation | Multiple | Information technology infrastructure | IT infrastructure |
| Wang and Shao (2024) | China | Quantitative | Explore the relationship between transformational leadership and employees' digital creativity | Unknown | Transformational leadership | Leadership style |
| Yousaf et al. (2021) | Pakistan | Quantitative | Explore the direct impact of digital orientation, Internet of Things, and digital platforms on sustainable digital innovation | IT | Digital orientation, digital platforms; Internet of Things | Digital orientation |
| Zhen et al. (2021) | Pakistan | Quantitative | Identify connections among organizational digital culture, digital capabilities, and digital innovation | ICT | Organizational digital culture | Digital innovation culture |
| Reference | Country | Design | Purpose of data collection | Industry | Factors studied | Sub-factor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | Quantitative | Examine the impact of digital leadership perceptions on employees' innovative work behaviors | Automotive | Digital leadership | Leadership style | |
| Malaysia | Qualitative | Explain how digital innovation unfolds in practice | ICT | Digital innovation process | Digital innovation process | |
| Malaysia | Qualitative | Demonstrate the importance of engaging market actors at each stage of innovation | ICT | Role of actors during digital innovation process | Digital innovation process | |
| Sweden | Qualitative | Increase understanding of innovation and dynamic capabilities in real estate owner organizations | Real estate | Digital innovation process | Digital innovation process | |
| The USA | Quantitative | Examine the impact of alliance portfolio configurations on firms' ability to create digital innovations | Industrial | Alliance portfolio configurations | Digital innovation networks | |
| China | Qualitative | Explore configurations of digital innovation attributes and IT infrastructure capability | Manufacturing and services | Configurations of digital innovation attributes and IT infrastructure capability | Digital innovation strategy | |
| Multiple | Qualitative | Develop a process model of digital-innovation-driven business model regeneration | Multiple | Process model of digital-innovations-driven business model regeneration | Digital innovation strategy | |
| Italy | Quantitative | Identify which characteristics of performance appraisal are likely to be perceived as promoting individual innovation at work | Multiple | Innovative work behaviors | Digital innovative workforce | |
| Italy | Quantitative | Investigate how digital innovation is influenced by the three pillars of self-tuning models' agility, adaptation, and ambidexterity | Smart manufacturing | Self-tuning model | Organizational structure | |
| Italy | Qualitative | Explore how the design of an innovation strategy affects the execution of change and digital innovation | Healthcare | Design of innovation strategy | Digital innovation strategy | |
| Germany | Qualitative | Explore the artifacts, exposed beliefs and values, and underlying assumptions of a digital organizational culture | Multiple | Digital organizational culture | Digital innovation culture | |
| Turkey | Quantitative | Demonstrate the relationship between digitization of leadership and innovative work behaviors | Textile | Innovative work behaviors | Digital innovative workforce | |
| The USA | Quantitative | Explore the influence of TMT characteristics (i.e., needed knowledge, roles, and structures) of digital innovation | Industrial | Top management team characteristics | Management characteristics | |
| Sweden, The USA | Qualitative | Understand how cultural aspects of organizational agility affect digital innovation capability | Automotive | Cultural aspects of organizational agility | Digital innovation culture | |
| Sweden, The USA | Qualitative | Clarify how startups use digital tools to strengthen digital innovation capability | Automotive and mobility | Digital tools | IT infrastructure | |
| Multiple | Quantitative | Theorize about the link between digital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and its consequences on digital innovation | Automotive | Digital M&A | Digital innovation strategy | |
| Germany | Quantitative | Examine the relationship between dynamic managerial capabilities and digital firms' innovativeness | Manufacturing | Dynamic managerial capabilities | Management characteristics | |
| Sweden | Qualitative | Identify how academic units work as intermediaries in networks for digital innovation | Unknown | Heterogeneous networks | Digital innovation networks | |
| Qualitative | Analyze digital innovation labs' contributions to ambidexterity for digital innovation | Multiple | Digital innovation labs | Organizational structure | ||
| Unknown | Qualitative | Explain how a digital innovation lab helps firms balance exploration and exploitation, and how ambidexterity contributes to digital innovation success | Financial service | Digital innovation lab | Organizational structure | |
| Multiple | Quantitative | Investigate whether PRFs act as institutional arrangements for digital service innovation | Unknown | Institutional arrangements | Digital innovation culture | |
| Malaysia | Quantitative | Examine the effect of digital orientation and capability on digital innovation | IT | Digital orientation | Digital orientation | |
| Hungarian | Quantitative | Discuss the role of digital agility and digital competitiveness in SMEs' innovative performance in the context of a digitally turbulent environment | Multiple | Digital agility | Digital innovation culture | |
| Singapore | Qualitative | Scrutinize individual learning strategies and the enablers and challenges of using them during digital innovation | Multiple | Workplace learning strategies | Environment for learning | |
| The UK, The USA | Quantitative | Examine the role of IT agility and ambidexterity on the IT function's digitization support | Multiple | IT function | IT function's role | |
| The USA | Quantitative | Investigate the relationship between digital institutional pressure on the power of IT departments and resulting impacts on digital innovation performance | Multiple | IT department | IT function's role | |
| The USA | Quantitative | Explore digital innovation governance configurations that achieve high digital innovation performance | Multiple | Digital innovation governance | IT governance | |
| China | Qualitative | Investigate the collective driving forces of employee-driven digital innovation behaviors | Multiple | Employee-driven digital innovation behaviors | Digital innovative workforce | |
| China | Qualitative | Investigate factors of digitalization that empower firm innovation | High-tech | Factors that empower firm innovation (i.e., technology, organization, and environmental) | IT infrastructure | |
| China | Qualitative | Investigate whether combinations of organizational environments and work characteristics foster employees' innovative behaviors | Industrial | Innovative work behaviors | Digital innovative workforce | |
| The USA | Quantitative | Explore antecedents of individual digital innovativeness | Education | Digital innovativeness | Digital innovative workforce | |
| The USA | Qualitative | Provide insights into lessons learned from a digital design lab that supports digital health innovation | Healthcare | Digital design lab | Organizational structure | |
| Unknown | Qualitative | Construct a conceptual model of digital innovation success | Multiple | Critical success factors during digital innovation process | Digital innovation process | |
| Denmark | Mixed methods | Investigate the relationship between organizational culture and digital innovation | Media | Organizational culture | Digital innovation culture | |
| Unknown | Quantitative | Explore the impact of technology orientation on digital innovation and innovation performance | Electronic | Technology orientation | Digital orientation | |
| Unknown | Quantitative | Explore how firms achieve innovation performance using innovation networks | Energy | Innovation networks | Digital innovation networks | |
| Multiple | Qualitative | Examine organizations' preconditions of learning when achieving innovation in digitalization projects | Multiple | Employee learning | Environment for learning | |
| Unknown | Quantitative | Examine the influence of IT transformational leadership on digital innovation | Unknown | Transformational leadership | Leadership style | |
| Unknown | Mixed methods | Examine how IT governance shapes an organization's capacity to continuously innovate digitally | Oil and gas | IT governance | IT governance | |
| Italy | Qualitative | Discuss the role innovation labs play as innovative management models to foster digital and continuous innovation in organizations of the digital ecosystem | Tourism | Innovation lab | Organizational structure | |
| Germany | Qualitative | Explore how to manage IT challenges to scale digital innovations | Insurer | Digital innovation process | Digital innovation process | |
| Multiple | Quantitative | Understand how digital and enterprise system platforms attain innovation | Multiple | Enterprise system platform and digital platform | Digital infrastructure | |
| China | Quantitative | Examine leadership's impact on employees' job performance | Multiple | Transformational supervisory leadership | Leadership style | |
| The UK | Qualitative | Understand how organizations mobilize resources and build capabilities to diffuse digital innovation | Engineering | Firm-project interface | Environment for learning | |
| Asia | Qualitative | Explore how a large bank responded to digital threats and opportunities using a digital business strategy | Banking | Digital business strategy | Digital innovation strategy | |
| Europe | Qualitative | Analyze how business networking during R&D affects the digital innovation of agro-food SMEs | Agro-food | Business networking | Digital innovation networks | |
| Sweden | Qualitative | Explain how competing concerns emerge, manifest, and interrelate, and how firms manage them during digital innovation | Automotive | Strategic focus | Digital innovation strategy | |
| The USA | Qualitative | Explore the role Big Data plays during innovation | App | Data-driven innovation process | Digital innovation process | |
| Four continents | Mixed methods | Explore how business process management plays an enabling role during digital innovation | Multiple | Digital business strategy | Digital innovation strategy | |
| China | Quantitative | Conceptualize ITI generativity and examine the social and technical antecedents of and their impact on digital innovation | Multiple | Information technology infrastructure | IT infrastructure | |
| China | Quantitative | Explore the relationship between transformational leadership and employees' digital creativity | Unknown | Transformational leadership | Leadership style | |
| Pakistan | Quantitative | Explore the direct impact of digital orientation, Internet of Things, and digital platforms on sustainable digital innovation | IT | Digital orientation, digital platforms; Internet of Things | Digital orientation | |
| Pakistan | Quantitative | Identify connections among organizational digital culture, digital capabilities, and digital innovation | ICT | Organizational digital culture | Digital innovation culture |
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