Kumulative Dissertation, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2022

Digital technology has become an integral part of our world. Our reliance on digital technology for everyday tasks such as communication, computation, and coordination has not only changed the way we collaborate and organize to create innovation but carrying out “new combinations of digital and physical components to produce novel products” (Yoo et al. 2010, p. 725) has changed the nature of innovation itself. Digital innovation has already caused fundamental upheavals across disciplinary and industrial boundaries, bringing great opportunities on the one hand but also considerable risks on the other. This dissertation aims to help harness the opportunities of digital innovation while mitigating its risks by (1) laying a conceptual foundation for how to think about digital innovation per se, (2) addressing how to create digital innovation, and (3) providing guidance on how to manage the resulting implications of digital innovation.