A Means to an End of the Other : Research Avenues at the Intersection of Organizational Digital Transformation and Digital Business Ecosystems

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Karnebogen, Philip ; Oberländer, Anna Maria ; Rövekamp, Patrick:
A Means to an End of the Other : Research Avenues at the Intersection of Organizational Digital Transformation and Digital Business Ecosystems.
In: Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). - Austin, USA , 2021
ISBN 978-1-7336325-9-1

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Digital technologies pose challenges and opportunities to individual and ecosystems of organizations. To date, two mostly isolated research streams study these related phenomena: Organizational digital transformation (ODT), focusing on the digital improvement process of individual incumbents and digital business ecosystems (DBEs), focusing on digitally-enabled value co-creation among organizations. Joining the forces of both research streams, our work aims to assess what empirical evidence and theory exist at their intersection. After conducting an assessing review, a theorizing review, and extracting assumptions in isolation, we derive four convergent assumptions for building future theory at their intersection along four topic areas: resources, coopetition, evolution, and control. We propose that ODT and DBEs can be a means to an end of the other connected in a cyclical relationship to meet digitally induced challenges. By presenting avenues for further research, our work builds a foundation for future theory at the intersection of ODT and DBEs.