Evgeny A. Kaganer

• Universidad de Navarra

Digital transformation is often described as organizational change that is simultaneously triggered and enabled by digital technologies. As with other types of organizational transformation, overcoming organizational inertia lies at the heart of digital transformation. However, our understanding of the specific processes employed by incumbent firms...

The digital divide gained new importance since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemics. However, the phenomenon is far from being fully conceptualized or effectively measured. The key question, whether digital divide is a mere extension of other social inequalities, or it has significant new meaning, remains largely unanswered; a reason is the lack of e...

Clough and Wu (2020) provide an interesting and thought-provoking response to our article (Gregory, Henfridsson, Kaganer, & Kyriakou, 2020) on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data network effects for the creation of user value. We welcome the debate around data network effects as a new category of network effects. In this response note...

Some of the world's most profitable firms own platforms that exhibit network effects. A platform exhibits network effects if, the more that people use it, the more valuable it becomes to each user. Theorizing about the value perceived by users of a platform that exhibits network effects has traditionally focused on direct and indirect network effec...

IT governance describes the decision rights and accountability framework used to ensure the alignment of ITrelated activities with the organization's strategy and objectives. Conversely, IT consumerization refers to the process whereby the changing practices and expectations of consumers influence the IT-related activities of workers and managers i...

IT governance describes the decision rights and accountability framework used to ensure the alignment of IT-related activities with the organization's strategy and objectives. Conversely, IT consumerization refers to the process whereby the changing practices and expectations of consumers influence the IT-related activities of workers and managers...

Cities are at the foundation of the socioeconomic order in almost all developed countries of the world. Moreover, in the 21st-century global competition is moving from the level of countries to that of cities. More and more often people and corporations make strategic choices between, say, Houston, Shanghai, and São Paulo rather than between the US...

The adoption and use of consumer information technology (IT) solutions in the enterprise is on the rise. The phenomenon, often referred to as consumerization, has a significant potential to reshape relationships to IT across different organizational contexts and levels. Yet, scholarly research examining topics related to consumerization, such as th...

The founders of Ayudarum, an Austrian crowdsourcing company that is focused on connecting students with potential employers, joined the Chilean Startup accelerator ‘Startup Chile’ to help their young company expand outside its European roots. Startup Chile had provided Ayudarum with a mentor to help them understand how to grow Ayudarum’s number of...

Companies have increasing opportunities to tap into a virtual, on-demand workforce. But the organizational challenges of this latest wave of outsourcing require new management models and skills.

Recent industry reports, drawing on anecdotal evidence and casual case studies, point to anticipated benefits from tablet-enabled mobile-learning initiatives, including making learning more personalized and continuous, increasing its relevance by providing timely access to context-specific information, and helping learners maintain a sense of commu...

This paper examines how organizations perceive affordances of social media and how they react to their employees' use of social media through policies, a key means of organizational governance. Existing literature identified 4 affordances - visibility, persistence, editability, and association (between people and between people and information) - a...

In this article we highlight the expanding nature of “social” in the enterprise and argue for a comprehensive governance framework that will enable organizations to make the most out of this transition.

Research on IT innovations has largely relied on economic-rationalistic models and focused on individuals or organizations as the unit of analysis. The intent of this paper is to advance an alternative research agenda that explores the institutional underpinnings of IT innovation diffusion at the inter-organizational level. Through a multistage res...

End-user driven technologies, such as social media, have dramatically changed organizations' innovation processes. In these new contexts, organizational decision makers have to contend with a de facto adoption of new technologies that they have yet to understand fully. In order to contribute to the understanding of these new contexts and their impl...

Although ethical decision making is a key concern of organizations, the impacts of IT on ethical discourse is an underexplored topic. The laboratory experiment reported in this paper examines the impacts of the use of group support systems (GSSs) on moral discourse. Drawing upon Toulmin’s (1958) model of argumentation and Kohlberg’s (1976) framewor...

Despite the pervasiveness and high costs of burnout in IT, our understanding of this problem remains limited. Review of IS research on job stress/burnout reveals that this body of work has relied heavily on general OB theory (parsimonious models generalizable across a variety of occupations and social contexts). More recently, scholars have argued...

The concept of an organizing vision, developed in work by Swanson and Ramiller, provides a valuable perspective to examine institutional processes that underlie diffusion of complex information technology (IT) innovations among organizations. Our understandings of the key functions performed by organizing visions “ interpretation, legitimation and...