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On 24 February at 14:30, there will be a 3rd year PhD presentation by Michal Hron  entitled "Organizational dynamics of digital innovation".

Supervisors: Sune Dueholm Müller & Marco Hubert
Discussants: Pernille Smith & Oana Vuculescu

Abstract
The aim of this dissertation is to explore the organizational and managerial challenges that arise from systematic involvement of digital technologies in innovation. The work in this dissertation primarily contributes to the literature on digital innovation, which identified systematic involvement of digital technologies as an occasion to reinvent or problematize existing theoretical perspectives. 

The first paper argues that consideration of digital artefacts is central to understanding the logic of digital innovation. This argument is developed by a means of a literature review. The second article presents a case study of organizing for innovation in a born-digital company; showcasing how distributable digital artefacts can stifle effectiveness of organizational separation as a vehicle for innovation. The third article investigates, by a multiple case study, how digital artefacts and organizational structures co-evolve as born-digital companies innovate their products. 

Overall, the dissertation proceeds from a theoretical argument to exploration of an empirical problem and development of a more robust theoretical understanding of the problem by moving from a single to a multiple case design. By placing the digital artefact to the center of the theoretical development, the dissertation showcases how those artefacts, which are generative, distributable, and with evolving identity, animate new organizational dynamics.

Everyone is welcome!