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Digital Innovation Culture: A Systematic Literature Review

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Innovation Through Information Systems (WI 2021)

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Digitalization increases the pressure for companies to innovate. While current research on digital transformation mostly focuses on technological and management aspects, less attention has been paid to organizational culture and its influence on digital innovations. The purpose of this paper is to identify the characteristics of organizational culture that foster digital innovations. Based on a systematic literature review on three scholarly databases, we initially found 778 articles that were then narrowed down to a total number of 23 relevant articles through a methodical approach. After analyzing these articles, we determine nine characteristics of organizational culture that foster digital innovations: corporate entrepreneurship, digital awareness and necessity of innovations, digital skills and resources, ecosystem orientation, employee participation, agility and organizational structures, error culture and risk-taking, internal knowledge sharing and collaboration, customer and market orientation as well as open-mindedness and willingness to learn.

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    As we received few results in the AIS eLibrary, we also included non-peer-reviewed articles of this database only.

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    MS Excel, a spreadsheet application, was utilized for the literature analysis and synthesis process.

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Kiefer, D., van Dinther, C., Spitzmüller, J. (2021). Digital Innovation Culture: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Ahlemann, F., Schütte, R., Stieglitz, S. (eds) Innovation Through Information Systems. WI 2021. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 48. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86800-0_22

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