Innovation research in information systems: A commentary on contemporary trends and issues

Jha, Ashish Kumar; Bose, Indranil

doi:10.1016/j.im.2015.10.007

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“…Two fairly recent reviews of innovation research in IS (Jha & Bose, 2016; Kohli & Melville, 2019) support our contention that a nonlinear treatment of the relationship between IT and innovation is practically absent in extant quantitative research on innovation 1 . This is consistent with the broader observation that “research in most … [IS] areas has focused on linear effects” (Brown et al, 2012, p. 485).…”

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The nonlinear influence of harmonious information technology affordance on organisational innovation

Chatterjee

Moody

Lowry

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Information Systems Journal

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In this study, we investigate the nature of the influence of organisational information technology (IT) on innovation. To examine this relationship, we leverage a fundamental construct: harmonious IT affordance (HITA). HITA is defined as the degree of coalignment between three salient organisational IT affordances, each of which allows an organisation to carry out its most fundamental functions using IT—collaboration, maintenance of organisational memory, and management of organisational processes. We theorize that HITA has a quadratic (U‐shaped) effect on innovation. Our theory proposes that when IT affordances increasingly co‐align (reflected by increasing HITA), the organisation enters a synergistic, virtuous phase that encourages innovation. Counterintuitively, the increasing misalignment of IT affordances can also result in organisational innovation via creative dissonance, which enables organisations to look for opportunities in the presence of misalignment and leverage it to create a synergistic virtuous cycle. We conducted two empirical studies—one with high‐level IT executives knowledgeable about innovation and one with sales and business development executives (who market innovations) knowledgeable about IT—that corroborate our theory. Crucially, if the IT affordances are unrelated (low coalignment, where HITA is close to zero), then innovation does not take place. We thus surmise that the relation between HITA and innovation is quadratic.

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“…Another avenue for adding to research on IT and innovation can be inferred from a review of the innovation literature as presented by Jha and Bose (2016) and Kohli and Melville (2019). Existing IS literature in innovation often overlooks the concept of affordances.…”

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confidence: 99%

The nonlinear influence of harmonious information technology affordance on organisational innovation

Chatterjee

Moody

Lowry

et al. 2020

Information Systems Journal

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“…These stages can be closely linked or overlap but can also be separated and distributed in time (Fagerberg, 2005). In the IS field, innovation studies have focused on adoption and diffusion and several authors argue that more research is needed about how innovative IT is created and developed (Fichman et al, 2014;Jha & Bose, 2016;Lyytinen & Rose, 2003;Zaman & Fielt, 2016). For instance, Lyytinen and Rose (2003) point out that the emergence of radical or disruptive IT innovations is a neglected area.…”

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Why is it difficult to design innovative IT? : An agential realist study of designing IT for healthcare innovation

Wassrin

2018

FiF-avhandling - Filosofiska Fakulteten – Linköpings Universitet

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“…Oslo Manual [48] defines innovative as something new or substantially enhanced and concurrently beneficial for consumers. Although it may be barely an idea that triggers organisational, processing, or production change resulting in an invention, implementation and diffusion [35]. Let us imagine how an individual can evaluate a company based on its website.…”

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Recognising innovative companies by using a diversified stacked generalisation method for website classification

Mirończuk

Protasiewicz

2019

Appl Intell

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In this paper, we propose a classification system which is able to decide whether a company is innovative or not, based only on its public website available on the internet. As innovativeness plays a crucial role in the development of myriad branches of the modern economy, an increasing number of entities are expending effort to be innovative. Thus, a new issue has appeared: how can we recognise them? Not only is grasping the idea of innovativeness challenging for humans, but also impossible for any known machine learning algorithm. Therefore, we propose a new indirect technique: a diversified stacked generalisation method, which is based on a combination of a multi-view approach and a genetic algorithm. The proposed approach achieves better performance than all other classification methods which include: (i) models trained on single datasets; or (ii) a simple voting method on these models. Furthermore, in this study, we check if unaligned feature space improves classification results. The proposed solution has been extensively evaluated on real data collected from companies' websites. The experimental results verify that the proposed method improves the classification quality of websites which might represent innovative companies.

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Innovation research in information systems: A commentary on contemporary trends and issues

Cited by 40 publications

References 124 publications

The nonlinear influence of harmonious information technology affordance on organisational innovation

The nonlinear influence of harmonious information technology affordance on organisational innovation

Why is it difficult to design innovative IT? : An agential realist study of designing IT for healthcare innovation

Recognising innovative companies by using a diversified stacked generalisation method for website classification

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