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Studying Digitalization Across Levels: An Overview and Introduction

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Digitalization Across Organizational Levels

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Advances in digital technologies have significantly increased the speed of digitalization in the new millennium. Such digitalization occurs across various levels, such as the individual, team, organization, and ecosystem levels. This paper seeks to provide an overview of how information systems (IS) research addresses digitalization phenomena across different levels. Thereby, it distinguishes between two interrelated perspectives: one referring to the management of IS and digital transformation; the other relating to the design of digital artifacts and the implications arising from their application and use, i.e., IS impacts. The respective digitalization research streams are illustrated with examples from past and current IS research.

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  1. 1.

    We follow an inclusive view of the IS discipline, comprising the business & information systems engineering (“Wirtschaftsinformatik” in German) discipline with its origins at the intersection of management and computer science as well as the more management oriented IS field originating from business schools (Heinrich et al., 2011).

  2. 2.

    Beyond IS management, a major research stream of traditional IS research was concerned with the use of IS at the individual level (Burton-Jones et al., 2017).

  3. 3.

    In keeping with the goal of this book to honor the research contributions of Armin Heinzl, as well as his comprehensive works covering various parts of the framework in Fig. 1, we specifically draw on his contributions to illustrate research streams across levels of analysis and genres.

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Kude, T., Dibbern, J. (2022). Studying Digitalization Across Levels: An Overview and Introduction. In: Dibbern, J., Förderer, J., Kude, T., Rothlauf, F., Spohrer, K. (eds) Digitalization Across Organizational Levels. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06543-9_1

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