Measuring the Barriers to the Digital Transformation in Management Courses – A Mixed Methods Study

Abstract

With the rise of digital technologies, digital transformation has become an issue in the field of higher education. In higher education institutions and enterprises alike, the term digital transformation means to digitalize internal processes and offer digital services and products. There are often barriers that must be overcome to master this challenge. Our study follows an explorative mixed methods design. We identify the barriers to digital transformation and transfer them to a research model. We examine the influence of individually perceived barriers on the transformation process, thus contributing to the theoretical foundation of digital transformation barriers in higher education institutions. This paper offers an approved scale to measure barriers to digital transformation and a valid operationalization of digital transformation barriers. The identified predictors can explain over 50% of the alteration problems of the transformation process. Results indicate that management students have a significantly low level of concern regarding their privacy and traceability but demand more commitment at the organizational level.

Evaluating the Impact of Strategies on Students’ Perceptions of Digital Transformation – A Case Study of a Swedish Higher Education Institution

“…In total, 156 students participated. Participants had to rate 30 DT-related items on a five-point Likert scale (Vogelsang, Brink, & Packmohr, 2020). From the survey items, we have selected 13 as they reflect on the strategy documents.…”

La transformación digital en la educación superior: el caso de la UOC

“…La investigación adopta una metodología mixta (Creamer, 2018) con la finalidad de comprender un fenómeno complejo como es la TD en una universidad digital. Dicho enfoque permite entender una realidad concreta respondiendo más al cómo y por qué que a la definición del fenómeno en sí (Shannon-Baker, 2015), aportando fuentes de información desde prismas diferentes con base en las dimensiones, actores e implementaciones que tienen lugar en un proceso de TD (McCrudden et al, 2019;Tobi y Kampen, 2018;Gobble, 2018), con una aplicación en estudios sobre instituciones de ES que tiene ya un recorrido definido (Stupnisky et al, 2014;Vogelsang et al, 2020).…”

Impact of the Pandemic on the Barriers to the Digital Transformation in Higher Education - Comparing Pre- and Intra-Covid-19 Perceptions of Management Students

“…In conclusion, research on HE is often focusing on specific teaching scenarios. Due to this limited generalizability, we broaden the perspective and take further dimensions of barriers into account to measure the students' view on DT in HE [9].…”

“…As described, we conducted a survey at two different time points using the same questionnaire [9]. The questionnaire is displayed in Table 1 and consists of six dimensions measuring the DT Process and its barriers by using a total of 30 items.…”

“…Even before the pandemic, we developed a barrier model using mixed methods [9]. This model contains an applicable scale to measure existing barriers among different stakeholders and follows a socio-technical perspective [10].…”