Interactions between innovation and digital transformation: Academic Article

journal

  • IEEE Access

abstract

  • Recent literature suggests there is a natural connection between innovation and digital transformation, two key topics of interest in management and organization that have spawned large, independent and well-defined areas of study. While this connection might be analytically straightforward and notable examples are not hard to find, in everyday life, it materializes in a multiplicity of ways. A need emerges, then, to better understand the interaction between innovation and digital transformation so that it can be explored and exploited by actors in academia and the public, private and third sectors. In this article, we use a co-word analysis, a text mining technique that permits to systematically map the intellectual structure of a research field, to characterize the most notable dynamics of ‘innovation-driven digitalization’ and ‘digitalized innovation’— the two major dimensions of interaction between innovation and digital transformation. The text identifies the relevant themes, subthemes and concepts that appear in the literature, as well as their relationship and level of development. It, then, aggregates them in a taxonomy that, on the one hand, readily displays their connection and, on the other hand, (i) informs about current or potential controversies, (ii) gaps, (iii) lines for novel and further research, and (iv) alternatives to bridge to other areas of study.Keywords: Digital transformation, innovation-driven digitalization, digitalized innovation, co-word analysis, industry 4.0, COVID-19

publication date

  • 2022-3-28

edition

  • 10

keywords

  • Chemical Transformation
  • Dimension
  • Industry
  • Industry 4.0
  • Mining
  • Taxonomies
  • Text mining
  • digitalization
  • everyday life
  • field research
  • industry
  • innovation
  • interaction
  • literature
  • management
  • organization
  • private sector
  • taxonomy

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2169-3536

number of pages

  • 111622

start page

  • 111607