Innovation in the digital economy: a broader view of its scope, antecedents, and consequences
Innovation in the digital economy: a broader view of its scope, antecedents, and consequences
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数字经济创新:更广泛地了解其范围、前因和后果
DOI:
10.1007/s11747-021-00793-z
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
18.2
通讯作者:
M. Schreier
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作者:
Alina Sorescu;M. Schreier
In mid-2018, John Hulland approached the two of us, asking us to co-edit a JAMS special issue around the general theme of “Innovating in the Digital Economy: Leveraging Technologies to Create Value for Customers and Firms.” We agreed to do so, and a call for papers was issued later in the year. In addition, a Thought Leaders’ Conference on the same topic was hosted by the Department of Marketing of Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, in mid-2019. The conference was vibrant, participants were deeply engaged, and sessions were highly interactive. Many of the author teams whose work ultimately appears in this special issue participated, and received valuable early feedback on their work. Our thanks to Paolo Guenzi, Gabriele Troilo, Gaia Rubera, Francesca Sotgiu, and Stefan Worm for doing such an excellent job with the organization and execution of that event. In total, almost fifty manuscripts were submitted and considered for inclusion in this special issue.The conference, and the manuscripts ultimately included in this special issue, brought into focus the new form and focus of innovation in the digital economy. The concept of digital economy has been first articulated by Don Tapscott, who wrote in 1995 that “the Internet and the World Wide Web are enabling a new economy based on the networking of human intelligence.”(Tapscott, 1995). Since that time, various definitions of the digital economy have been offered, most centered around the idea of connectivity, and most recently hyperconnectivity, networking, and ecommerce. In the digital economy, the boundaries of innovation have significantly broadened. Traditionally, innovation has referred primarily to product or service innovation, and to a lesser extent process innovation. Along the same lines, most scholarly