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Embracing Digital Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed Competing Concerns
Ist Teil von
MIS quarterly, 2017-03, Vol.41 (1), p.239-254
Ort / Verlag
Minneapolis: Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Business Source Ultimate
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Past research provides instructive yet incomplete answers as to how incumbent firms can address competing concerns as they embrace digital innovation. In particular, it offers only partial explanations of why different concerns emerge, how they manifest, and how firms can manage them. In response, we present a longitudinal case study of Volvo Cars’connected car initiative. Combining extant literature with insights from the case, we argue that incumbent firms face four competing concerns—capability (existing versus requisite), focus (product versus process), collaboration (internal versus external), and governance (control versus flexibility)—and that these concerns are systemically interrelated. Firms must therefore manage these concerns cohesively by continuously balancing new opportunities and established practices.