MISQ等信息管理期刊数字创新创业研究摘要精选（2021年一季度）

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目录 CONTENTS

• Connecting the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems
  

• 以点带面：数字创新生态系统的信息生态理论

• The CARE Theory of Dignity Amid Personal Data Digitalization
  

• 个人数据数字化中的尊严关怀理论

• Openness in platform ecosystems: Innovation strategies for complementary products

• 平台生态系统的开放性：互补产品的创新策略

• Digital resilience: How rural communities leapfrogged into sustainable development

• 数字弹性：农村社区如何跃入可持续发展

• Social value creation through digital activism in an online health community

• 在线健康社区中通过数字行动创造社会价值

• A paradoxical perspective on technology renewal in digital transformation

• 数字转型中技术更新的悖论视角

Connecting the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems

以点带面：数字创新生态系统的信息生态理论

摘要：

数字技术非凡的连通性和嵌入性使广泛的参与者能够进行创新，这些参与者往往超越了组织和行业边界，其关系类似于自然生态系统中相互依赖的物种间关联。数字创新生态系统的成功可以催生无数具有重大社会和经济价值的创新，但同时由于复杂性挑战，创新系统也经常会面临巨大失败的风险。为了将生态系统理解为数字创新的一种新的组织形式，本文提出了一种理论，解决了一个未被探索但很重要的问题：在数字创新生态系统中，自治方的努力如何整合成一个连贯的整体，数字技术在这种整合中扮演着什么角色？通过综合生态学和信息学的观点，这一信息生态学理论确定了数字技术在提供所需信息以支持不同规模的生态系统中的相互作用和创新任务方面的几个关键功能。这一理论有助于数字创新研究在管理部分-整体关系、数字技术在创新中的作用以及数字创新生态系统内和跨数字创新生态系统的多层次互动方面提供新的见解。这一理论也可以启发下一代生态系统信息系统作为一种新的组织形式的发展。

The remarkable connectivity and embeddedness of digital technologies enable innovations undertaken by a broad set of actors, often beyond organizational and industry boundaries, whose relationships mimic those of interdependent species in a natural ecosystem. These digital innovation ecosystems, if successful, can spawn countless innovations of substantial social and economic value, but are complex and prone to often surprising failure. Aiming to understand ecosystems as a new organizational form for digital innovations, I develop a theory that addresses an underexplored but important question: In a digital innovation ecosystem, how are the efforts of autonomous parties integrated into a coherent whole and what role do digital technologies play in this integration? By synthesizing ecological and information perspectives, this information ecology theory identifies several key functions that digital technologies serve in providing the information needed to support the interactions and tasks for innovation in ecosystems of varying scales. This theory contributes to digital innovation research new insights on managing part–whole relations, the role of digital technologies in innovation, and multilevel interactions in and across digital innovation ecosystems. The theory can also inspire the development of next-generation information systems for ecosystems as a new organizational form.

关键词：

数字创新，生态系统，信息，生态，理论，

文献来源：

Wang, P. (2021). Connecting the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 45(1), 397-422.

The CARE Theory of Dignity Amid Personal Data Digitalization

个人数据数字化中的尊严关怀理论

摘要：

随着数字技术对人类日常生活的迅速渗透，我们正在见证一个个人数据数字化的时代。个人数据数字化是指与用于数字技术的个人数据数字化相关的社会技术接触。个人数据数字化正被应用于人类生活的核心属性-健康、认知和情感-据称的目的是帮助个人获得更高的寿命和更健康的身体，并赋予其必要的认知和情感，以使人类能够以一种繁荣的方式应对生活状况和其他人的关系。从IT、生物伦理和法律到哲学和宗教等多个领域都存在一个令人担忧的问题，即随着个人数据数字化渗透到人类生存的更多领域，人类有可能成为技术生产的产物。这一担忧将人类本质的概念发展带到了中心舞台上，并概括到在人类尊严一词中。尊严广义上是指承认人类拥有内在价值，因此被赋予某些权利，应该得到尊重。在这篇文章中，作者将关于个人数据数字化的知识进行识别、描述和转换，并将其转化为围绕人类尊严概念的更高层次的理论结构。我们分析的结果是个人数据数字化中尊严的关怀(主张、冒犯、回应、平衡)理论，该理论解释了个人数据数字化与人类尊严的关系。在关怀理论的基础上，各种IS研究流派的研究人员可以开发用于实证检验的中级理论，或者可以将关怀理论作为解释新出现的IS现象的首要切入点。从业者和政府机构也可以利用关怀理论来理解个人数据数字化的机会和风险，并制定尊重员工和公民尊严的政策和制度。

With the rapidly evolving permeation of digital technologies into everyday human life, we are witnessing an era of personal data digitalization. Personal data digitalization refers to the sociotechnical encounters associated with the digitization of personal data for use in digital technologies. Personal data digitalization is being applied to central attributes of human life—health, cognition, and emotion—with the purported aim of helping individuals live longer, healthier lives endowed with the requisite cognition and emotion for responding to life situations and other people in a manner that enables human flourishing. A concern taking hold in manifold fields ranging from IT, bioethics, and law, to philosophy and religion is that as personal data digitalization permeates ever more areas of human existence, humans risk becoming artifacts of technology production. This concern brings to center stage the very notion of what it means to be human, a notion encapsulated in the term human dignity, which broadly refers to the recognition that human beings possess intrinsic value and, as such, are endowed with certain rights and should be treated with respect. In this paper, we identify, describe, and transform what we know about personal data digitalization into a higher order theoretical structure around the concept of human dignity. The result of our analysis is the CARE (claims, affronts, response, equilibrium) theory of dignity amid personal data digitalization, a theory that explains the relationship of personal data digitalization to human dignity. Building upon the CARE theory as a foundation, researchers in a variety of IS research streams could develop mid-range theories for empirical testing or could use the CARE theory as an overarching lens for interpreting emerging IS phenomena. Practitioners and government agencies can also use the CARE theory to understand the opportunities and risks of personal data digitalization and to develop policies and systems that respect the dignity of employees and citizens.

关键词：

个人数据，尊严，数字化，自上而下的归纳理论，尊严失衡

文献来源：

Leidner, D. E., & Tona, O. (2021). The CARE Theory of Dignity Amid Personal Data Digitalization. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 45(1), 343-370.

Openness in platform ecosystems: Innovation strategies for complementary products

平台生态系统的开放性：互补产品的创新策略

摘要：

互补产品市场的创新战略伴随着一个两难境地：平台赞助商必须给予第三方创新自主权，才能使平台成功，但平台赞助商也必须参与互补产品市场，使平台成长，从而成为第三方的竞争对手。我们考察了基于开发和商业化活动组合的四种创新战略的绩效结果，即专有战略、对外战略、入站战略和第三方战略，以及它们随时间的演变。数据是从美国第七代游戏机的4857个视频游戏小组中收集的。研究结果突出了同时存在于同一平台生态系统中的创新战略的不同绩效结果，有助于平台战略、开放式创新和生态系统管理的研究。研究结果强调，在平台生态系统中，关于适当创新战略的决策比以前通过开放或封闭、平台赞助商或第三方或第一或后续战略的传统二元性描述的要复杂得多。

Innovation strategies in complementary product markets come with a dilemma: Platform sponsors must concede third parties autonomy to innovate to make a platform successful, but a platform sponsor must also participate in the complementary product market to make the platform grow, thus acting as a competitor to third parties. We examine the performance outcomes of four innovation strategies based upon combinations of development and commercialization activities, i.e., the proprietary, outbound, inbound and third-party strategies, and their evolution over time. Data was collected from a panel of 4,857 video games for the seventh generation of video consoles in the United States. The findings contribute to research on platform strategy, open innovation, and ecosystem management by highlighting the different performance outcomes of innovation strategies that co-exist in the same platform ecosystem at the same time. The findings emphasize that decisions on appropriate innovation strategies in platform ecosystems are much more complex than they have previously been portrayed as, through the traditional dualities of open or closed, platform sponsors or third parties, or first or subsequent strategies.

关键词：

平台战略，开放创新，生态系统管理，创新战略，域内域外

文献来源：

Cenamor, J., & Frishammar, J. (2021). Openness in platform ecosystems: Innovation strategies for complementary products. Research Policy, 50(1), 104148. 

Digital resilience: How rural communities leapfrogged into sustainable development

数字弹性：农村社区如何跃入可持续发展

摘要：

数字社会创新(DSI)是指以全新的方式利用数字技术应对社会挑战，在追求可持续发展的过程中发挥着至关重要的作用。在这篇实践者论文中，作者提供了一个深入的DSI案例研究，在这个案例中，偏远县的基层社区利用电子商务实现了脱贫，成为拥有在全球范围内蓬勃发展的在线企业的成功企业家。在此案例研究的基础上，作者首先讨论了电子商务提供的三个跨越机会，它们成功地被基层社区拥抱，开始了转型之旅。然后，文章揭示了在技术跨越过程中出现的三个障碍，这三个障碍挑战了基层DSI努力的可持续性。最后，我们讨论了三种自上而下的干预措施，它们有助于克服基层跨越式发展的瓶颈，并随后培育一个自我维持、有弹性的社区。总体而言，本文通过讨论DSI增长和可持续性的一些常见障碍，以及如何解决这些障碍，为欠发达地区的政策制定者、公共和私营部门从业人员以及社区提供了洞察力和建议，以驾驭技术跨越的潜力和陷阱，并最终建立一条通往弹性和可持续性的道路。

Digital social innovation (DSI)—the novel use of digital technology to address societal challenges—plays a critical role in our collective pursuit of sustainable development. In this practitioner paper, we present an in‐depth DSI case study where the grassroots communities in a remote county leveraged e‐commerce to leapfrog out of poverty, becoming successful entrepreneurs with online businesses that thrive on a global scale. Based on this case study, we first discuss three leapfrogging opportunities afforded by e‐commerce, which were successfully embraced by the grassroots communities to begin the transformative journey. We then reveal three obstacles that emerged during the technology leapfrogging process, which have challenged the sustainability of the grassroots DSI endeavour. Lastly, we discuss three top‐down interventions that have been instrumental in overcoming the bottleneck of grassroots leapfrogging development and subsequently nurture a self‐sustaining, resilient community. Overall, by discussing some of the common barriers to the growth and sustainability of DSI, and how they have been addressed, this article offers insights and recommendations for policymakers, public and private sector practitioners, and communities in underdeveloped regions to navigate both the potentials and pitfalls of technology leapfrogging, and ultimately build a pathway towards resilience and sustainability.

关键词：

数字弹性、数字社会创新、实践者理论、可持续发展目标、技术跨越

文献来源：

Tim, Y., Cui, L., & Sheng, Z. (2021). Digital resilience: How rural communities leapfrogged into sustainable development. Information Systems Journal, 31(2), 323-345.

Social value creation through digital activism in an online health community

在线健康社区中通过数字行动创造社会价值

摘要：

这项研究探索了在线健康社区如何通过将个人团结在一个共同的目标下来产生社会价值，以促进冲突后国家的医疗保健。我们选择了一个数字平台—MedicineAfrica，利用多种数据收集方式，研究在资源不足的医疗系统地区提供医学教育来创造社会价值的过程。研究发现，正是通过一种独特的数字健康行动主义形式，社会价值才在这种背景下被创造出来。基于对数字健康行动主义的社会学理解，我们做出了以下贡献：首先，我们确定了三种类型的非经济、社会价值：认知型、专业型和知识型。其次，本文指出，数字健康行动的三种新兴形式(即慈善活动、道德活动和互惠活动)使社会价值创造成为可能。第三，本文引出了三种支持机制，解释了这些形式的行动主义是如何通过平台的连接能力和新兴的集体实践，以及其成员在技术和社会上提供的日益增长的承诺。文章通过提供一个框架来阐明数字健康行动主义如何与社会价值创造相关，从而促进了有关数字行动主义的不断增长。这篇文章对平台如何实现可持续的在线(健康)社区提供了实践意义。

The study explores how online health communities produce social value by uniting individuals under a common purpose, to advance healthcare in post‐conflict states. We selected MedicineAfrica – a digital platform known for creating social value by providing medical education in regions with under‐resourced healthcare systems – and drew on multiple data collection methods. We found that it is through a unique form of digital health activism that social value is created in this context. Drawing on a sociological understanding of digital health activism, we make the following contributions: First, we identify three types of non‐economic, social value: cognitive, professional and epistemic. Second, we indicate that social value creation is enabled by three emergent forms of digital health activism (ie, philanthropic, moral and reciprocal activity). Third, we elicit three enabling mechanisms explaining how these forms of activism are technically and socially afforded through the platform's connective capacity and emerging collective practices in tandem with its members' growing commitment. Our article contributes to the growing IS literature on digital activism by offering a framework that elucidates how digital health activism relates to social value creation. The article provides practical implications as to how platforms can enable sustainable online (health) communities.

关键词：

数字健康，数字健康行动主义，数字平台，在线健康社区，社会价值

文献来源：

Chamakiotis, P., Petrakaki, D., & Panteli, N. (2021). Social value creation through digital activism in an online health community. Information Systems Journal, 31(1), 94-119.

A paradoxical perspective on technology renewal in digital transformation

数字转型中技术更新的悖论视角

摘要：

为了实现其战略目标并在数字时代保持竞争优势，组织必须定期更新其数字平台和基础设施。然而，关于这种技术更新的知识分散在不同的研究流派中，因此对这一过程的研究既有限又分散。在本文中，作者将技术概念化为一种内在矛盾的数字转型过程，要求组织同时移除其技术基础，并建立依赖于它的实践来实施新的技术基础。先前的研究表明，技术更新倡议是由三个矛盾的紧张关系驱动的：(A)既有技术使用与新技术使用，(B)有意更新与新兴技术的实践，以及(C)内部更新与外部更新环境。本文将这一框架应用到一个纵向案例研究中，在这个案例中，作者分析和解释了一个组织对这些紧张表现的反应最终是如何导致在9年的时间里继续投资于两个重叠的、基本上不兼容的数字平台的恶性循环。基于这些概念性和经验性的见解，文章将技术更新作为一种矛盾的、越来越关键的数字化转型过程，迫使管理者在复杂和模棱两可的选择情况下做出决定。

To realize their strategic goals and maintain a competitive advantage in the digital era, organizations must periodically renew their digital platforms and infrastructures. However, knowledge about such technology renewal is scattered across diverse research streams, so insights into the process are both limited and fragmented. In this article, we consolidate insights from previous research to conceptualize technology renewal as an inherently paradoxical digital transformation process that requires organizations to simultaneously remove their technological foundation and build on the practices that depend on it to implement a new technological foundation. Previous research suggests that technology renewal initiatives are driven by three paradoxical tensions: (a) established vs renewed technology usage, (b) deliberate vs emergent renewal practices and (c) inner vs outer renewal contexts. We apply this framing to a longitudinal case study in which we analyse and explain how an organization's responses to manifestations of these tensions eventually led to a vicious cycle of continued investments into two overlapping and largely incompatible digital platforms over a 9‐year period. Based on these conceptual and empirical insights, we theorize technology renewal as a paradoxical, and increasingly critical, digital transformation process that forces managers to make decisions in complex and ambiguous choice situations.

关键词：

数字平台和基础设施，数字转换，悖论，应对，技术更新

文献来源：

Wimelius, H., Mathiassen, L., Holmström, J., & Keil, M. (2021). A paradoxical perspective on technology renewal in digital transformation. Information Systems Journal, 31(1), 198-225.

-供稿/编辑：赵陈芳

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