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Table 1.

Overview of conceptual elements of digital innovation management

Conceptual elements	Description	Consequence
Dynamic problem–solution design pairing	Digital innovation management as a sporadic, parallel and heterogeneous generation, forking, merging, termination and refinement of problem–solution design pairs	Acknowledges the fluid boundaries of the innovation space and the potential for innovation agency to be distributed
Socio-cognitive sensemaking	Shared cognition and joint sensemaking as critical elements of digital innovation management; “narratives” (embedded in digital artifacts and supported by digital technologies) as a vehicle for such socio-cognitive sensemaking	Acknowledges the fluid boundaries of the innovation space and the heterogeneous actors that populate it (distributed innovation agency)
Technology affordances and constraints	Considers digital technology use as sets of affordances and constraints for particular innovating actors and helps explain how and why the “same” technology can be repurposed by different actors or has different innovation outcomes in different contexts	Acknowledges the receding distinctions (and the accompanying duality) between innovation processes and outcomes
Orchestration	Problem–solution matching as a micro-foundation of digital innovation orchestration; increasing the role of digital technologies in enabling or supporting such orchestration	Acknowledges the fluid boundaries of the innovation space and the potential for innovation agency to be distributed

Conceptual elements	Description	Consequence
Dynamic problem–solution design pairing	Digital innovation management as a sporadic, parallel and heterogeneous generation, forking, merging, termination and refinement of problem–solution design pairs	Acknowledges the fluid boundaries of the innovation space and the potential for innovation agency to be distributed
Socio-cognitive sensemaking	Shared cognition and joint sensemaking as critical elements of digital innovation management; “narratives” (embedded in digital artifacts and supported by digital technologies) as a vehicle for such socio-cognitive sensemaking	Acknowledges the fluid boundaries of the innovation space and the heterogeneous actors that populate it (distributed innovation agency)
Technology affordances and constraints	Considers digital technology use as sets of affordances and constraints for particular innovating actors and helps explain how and why the “same” technology can be repurposed by different actors or has different innovation outcomes in different contexts	Acknowledges the receding distinctions (and the accompanying duality) between innovation processes and outcomes
Orchestration	Problem–solution matching as a micro-foundation of digital innovation orchestration; increasing the role of digital technologies in enabling or supporting such orchestration	Acknowledges the fluid boundaries of the innovation space and the potential for innovation agency to be distributed

Source: Nambisan et al. (2017)