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Partnering for Digital Innovation: A Competence-Based Study

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Digital Services and Platforms. Considerations for Sourcing (Global Sourcing 2018)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 344))

Abstract

Drawing on the attention-based view of the firm and research on microfoundations of organizational capabilities, we develop and empirically analyze a theoretical model that examines the role of cognition of IT leadership in achieving organizational-level digital maturity and the mechanisms through which it affects the innovative outcomes of the exploration-focused outsourcing projects. We find that Chief Information Officers’ (CIOs) internal beliefs regarding the importance of capabilities for the IT function seem to not directly affect the innovation outcomes of third-party collaborations. Instead, this relationship is mediated by the degree of digital maturity the company has managed to achieve.

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    Ringle, Christian M., Wende, Sven, and Will, Alexander (2005). SmartPLS 2.0.M3. Hamburg: SmartPLS, http://www.smartpls.de.

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    We have used the bootstrapping procedure proposed in [62] to verify whether the mediation effect of digital maturity is statistically significant. Differently from the traditional four-step procedure [63] that necessarily requires the direct path between independent and dependent variables to be significant, bootstrapping procedure relaxes this assumption. Instead, the bootstrapping procedure requires generating a large number of samples with replacement and estimating indirect effect for each sample. The obtained values were then ranked from highest to lowest and confidence intervals were calculated – as the confidence interval excluded zero, we were able to conclude that the observed indirect effect is significant [62].

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Arkhipova, D., Vaia, G. (2019). Partnering for Digital Innovation: A Competence-Based Study. In: Kotlarsky, J., Oshri, I., Willcocks, L. (eds) Digital Services and Platforms. Considerations for Sourcing. Global Sourcing 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 344. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15850-7_1

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