Institutional Logics of Digital Innovation

February 2013 until June 2017 (completed) PhD-Thesis

Project Description

Innovating with digital technologies is an imperative for virtually all organizations. Today, diverse actors use digital technologies to drive innovations, ranging from engineers, designers, and customer facing units, far extending the scope of the IT function which used to lead digital efforts. The view of digital innovation is often less about the characteristics of the technology itself and more about how organizational actors make sense of digital innovations in a particular context. Consequently, organizational actors make sense of digital innovation in different ways and act in accordance with distinct standards of appropriate innovation behavior.

To date, there is little research on how actors external to the IT function innovate with digital technologies. Thus, the PhD project aims to find out how diverse organizational actors draw on various institutional logics and how far they recognize affordances of digital technologies differently. Here, institutional logics refer to the goals, values, and prescriptions associated with a specifc institution. For example, a profession is an institution (social structure) that persists over time and is anchored in specific cultural perspectives and discursive domains (i.e. vocabularies). Drawing on these concepts we seek to characterize how different professionals innovate with digital technologies.

Keywords

digital Innovation digital technology organizational innovation institutional logics affordances

Participating Institutions

Hilti Chair of Business Process Management / Doctoral instiution

Project Participants

Dr. rer. oec. Sanja Tumbas M.Sc.

- PhD-Student

PhD-Student

Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke

- Supervisor

Visiting Professor - Information Systems and Process Science

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Margunn Aanestad

- Co-Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Nicholas Berente

- Co-Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

Institutional Logics of Digital Innovation

January 2015 until March 2017 (completed) FFF-Funding Project

Project Description

Digital technologies are ubiquitous (Lyytinen et al. 2004), they permeate virtually every aspect of organizational life (Zammuto et al. 2007) and are imperative for organizational innovation (Yoo et al. 2012). It is in the core of the Information Systems (IS) discipline to study the novel organizational application of digital technologies1. IS scholars typically investigate the diffusion and assimilation of digital technology and provide insights to differences in the adoption behavior across organizations and across technologies (Sidorova et al. 2008). These core interests in the field reflect a deep concern with the identification of preconditions and resources that help organizations innovate with digital technologies (see Fichman 2004). IS scholars explore relevant factors related to technologies and the diffusion context, organizations and adoption context, or the interrelation of technology and organization (Fichman 2000). These studies represent a rich body of knowledge that focuses on IT departments and IT experts as key actors in the adoption of new technologies (Fuller and Swanson 1992; Swanson 1994).

Relevance to Liechtenstein

Digital innovation is a highly relevant topic for regional organizations. Therefore, the project is conducted in close cooperation with local companies. The results of the project are provided to the regional industry to facilitate exchange on innovation in today's digital world.

Participating Institutions

Hilti Chair of Business Process Management / Project Lead

Project Participants

PD Dr. habil. Stefan Güldenberg

- Koreferent

Koreferent

Dr. rer. oec. Sanja Tumbas M.Sc.

- Project Manager

Project Manager

Prof. Dr. Theresa Schmiedel

- Project Collaborator

Project Collaborator

Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke

- Project Collaborator

Visiting Professor - Information Systems and Process Science

Project Collaborator

Sandra Beyer MA

- Administration

Administration

Publications

Tumbas, S., Schmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2015). Characterizing Multiple Institutional Logics for Innovation with Digital Technologies. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 05-08 Jan 2015, Hawaii, USA.
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Institutional Logics of Digital Innovation

February 2013 (completed) Preproposal PhD-Thesis

Project Description

Keywords

digital Innovation digital technology organizational innovation institutional logics affordances

Project Participants

Dr. rer. oec. Sanja Tumbas M.Sc.

- PhD-Student

PhD-Student

Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke

- Supervisor

Visiting Professor - Information Systems and Process Science

Supervisor

Publications

Chandra Kruse, L., & Tumbas, S. (2016). Digital Ethnography: At the Crossroads of Mirage, Mosaic, and Mirror. Paper presented at the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016), Dublin, Ireland.
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Innovative Approach to Kid's Cybersecurity Education: Empowering and Inspiring Educators for the Next Generation

September 2024 until August 2026 Erasmus

Project Description

The indirect goal of the project is to educate youngsters about cybersecurity, safeguarding them from various digital threats. It also seeks to encourage kids to consider cybersecurity as a future career. The project develops a modular course and tools to enhance school curricula, addressing the lack of standardized materials for educators. Thus, the main goal is to identify specific threats to children and provide educators with interactive materials to educate youngsters about these threats.
The project will develop a modular course with a toolset to enhance school curricula with standalone modules focused on cybersecurity education. It will conduct a thorough study to identify major security threats specific to children, align skills required to build resilience with the identified threats, develop materials for trainers at schools, evaluate the effectiveness of the developed course and modules, and disseminate the materials as Open Educational Resources (OER) for accessibility.
The project aims to achieve and provide multiple outcomes that relate to the aforementioned objectives. These include enhanced security awareness among children, increased interest in considering cybersecurity as a potential future career, development, and dissemination of standardized and easily adaptable materials for educators, promotion of soft skills through the developed course, internationalization of the materials, and ethical and responsible dissemination of materials.

Participating Institutions

Data and Application Security / Project Lead Universität Innsbruck / Partner Vilniaus Universitetas / Partner CyberSecurity Hub, z.u. / Partner Hogskolen i Innlandet / Partner

Project Participants

Irdin Pekaric PhD

- Principal Investigator

Postdoc - Data and Application Security

Principal Investigator

Innovation System Switzerland

March 2009 until June 2010 (completed) Internal Project

Project Description

On behalf of the Swiss Science and Technology Council, the team of the Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship compiled a review of the situation of the Swiss Innovaation System 2009. After analyzing the actual innovation performance, nine basic recommendations concerning the forming and improvement of the Swiss Innovation System were generated, which in the name of the Swiss Science and Technology Council were presented to the Swiss government.

Keywords

National Innovation System, NIS Swiss Science and Technology Council SSTC Innovation system

Participating Institutions

Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship / Project Lead

Project Participants

PD Dr. habil. Christian Marxt

- Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator

Dr. rer. oec. Claudia Brunner

- Project Collaborator

Project Collaborator

Innovationseffizienz und Unternehmenserfolg

January 2019 until December 2019 (completed) FFF-Funding Project

Project Description

Summary after project end

Since Schumpeter introduced his theories about creative destruction and innovation, it has been believed that innovation is a major driver of growth and prosperity. At the firm level, innovation is seen as an input for a competitive advantage. Investments in innovation activities are usually limited by financial and resourceful constraints. A comprehensive measurement of innovation allows organizations to allocate resources, manage the innovation process appropriately and assess the outcome in terms of innovation performance. Measuring the efficiency of a firm's innovation process is difficult to assess, because of the required multiple input and output variables. A specific parametric production function of this process for different firms is not available in innovation management. However, by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) it is possible to evaluate the efficiency of innovation processes of different firms. DEA is a non-parametric evaluation technique, which can calculate efficiency scores for input-output models of different firms. This consideration is the fundament of the reserach project on "Innovation and Company Success". In a first study we have been able to identify a set of so called company domains, which all effect innovation performance of a company. In addition to that, we used a bibliometric technique, to identify innovation metrics applicable fon our DEA model. One of the main problems in DEA efficiency calculation arises, it is either the access to innovation metrics of companies or to find the right combination of inputs and output metrics in DEA innovation efficiency measurement. We have been able to derive a so called minimum data set for innovation efficiency measurement, which finally leads to the calculation of an innovation efficient frontier. All companies - cross industry - which lie on this innovation frontier, have the ability to transform innovation inputs in respective outputs in the most efficient way. A nice side-effect of this innovation efficient frontier is the fact, that innovation efficient companies are character-ized by better financial or stock performance compared to benchmarks. And we have been able to prove patterns of innovation-efficient companies. One pattern is that innovation-efficient companies do not overre-act economic-up and downswings. This results leads to additionl reasearch topics. E.g. to the question if inno-vation efficient companies are more sustainable or not.

Participating Institutions

Forschungsförderungsfonds der Universität Liechtenstein / Sponsor Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology / Project Lead

Project Participants

Prof. Dr. Leo Brecht

- Principal Investigator

Professor - Technology and Innovation Academic Director MBA in Technology & Innovation - Technology and Innovation

Principal Investigator

Innovation: The organizational challenge

January 2017 until January 2019 FFF-Funding Project

Project Description

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Participating Institutions

Forschungsförderungsfonds der Universität Liechtenstein / Sponsor

Project Participants

Dr. rer. oec. Ana Claudia Procopio Barbosa Schön

- Project Manager

Project Manager

Innovation Lock-In - Beschränkung des Innovationsspielraum durch technologische Pfadabhängigkeit bei KMU in Liechtenstein, Ostschweiz und Vorarlberg

October 2010 until May 2012 (completed) FFF-Funding Project

Project Description

Eine Befragung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen in der Region ergab die besondere Herausforderung die sich diese Unternehmen gegenüber sehen, wenn sie gängige Modelle der Innovation einsetzen möchten. Oftmals haben sie in spezifische, teils sehr kostenintensive Technologien investiert und können einerseits aufgrund des schlechten Zugangs zu Kapital und andererseits aufgrund fehlender Kompetenz, nicht hiervon abweichen.
Im Rahmen dieses Projekts wird untersucht, wie KMU mit der Schwierigkeit getätigter Vorinvestitionen in spezifische Technologien im Rahmen ihrer Innovationstätigkeit umgehen können.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship Innovation management and -controlling SME Innovation system

Participating Institutions

Forschungsförderungsfonds der Universität Liechtenstein / Sponsor Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship / Project Lead

Project Participants

Dr. rer. oec. Claudia Brunner

- Project Manager

Project Manager

Dr. Markus Spiegel

- Project Collaborator

Project Collaborator

Publications

Spiegel, M. (2012, 4. April). Innovation in technologie-basierten KMU. KMU Wissen kompakt (Veranstaltungsreihe KMU Zentrum), Vaduz.
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Information Dissemination in Financial Markets

February 2019 until January 2023 (completed) PhD-Thesis

Project Description

The dissertation project consists of three studies that investigate how information disseminates in financial markets. Rather than limiting information dissemination strictly to market interaction, the author focuses on scenarios in which information disseminates before it is reflected in market prices. Given that actual investment decisions might be influenced by social interaction in networks, the first two studies explore why traders are willing to cooperate and share information on a voluntary basis. Tying in with literature on how presentation formats affect decision-making, my last study employs eye-tracking technology to assess which information sources gain primarily investors' attention. Future research can use these findings to improve experimental trading interfaces and highlight information that might be otherwise neglected.

Keywords

information exchange Laboratory Experiment Information dissemination Eye-tracking

Participating Institutions

Chair in Finance / Doctoral instiution

Project Participants

Prof. Dr. Martin Angerer

- Supervisor

Professor - Innovative and Digital Finance Academic Director MSc IF - Liechtenstein Business School

Supervisor

Dr. rer. oec. Matthias Herrmann-Romero MSc

- PhD-Student

PhD-Student

FH-Prof. PD Dr. Thomas Stöckl

- Co-Supervisor

Co-Supervisor

How does the Process of Industry 4.0 Change the Profession of a Carpenter?

September 2018 until January 2023 (completed) PhD-Thesis

Project Description

Being aware of the ongoing process of digital transformation it is necessary to focus on the question of how this will take
place and how it may affect us. While focusing on this development we have to arise a feeling of how we can steer this
process in the best possible direction. With focus on new technologies the project will build up cooperation's with
company's and creative industry and by that provide an up-to-date discussion. The main issue of the work is to provide
some kind of new perspective towards the ongoing discussion of digitization and by that raising an awareness for local crafts.