In recent times, organizations purport to undergo unprecedented transformations owing to the adoption of digital technologies. Consequently, there has been a substantial effort in academia attempting to better understand the phenomenon of digital transformation in business organizations. However, a cumulative tradition of research on digital transformation, underpinned by a consolidated theoretical positioning, is compromised by the loosely defined constructs, confusion in terminology and lack of an overarching framework of its nomological net. This paper, therefore, features a systematic review of the assorted and fragmented literature on this notion of Digital Transformation by critically analysing 174 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2013 and 2021, in over thirty leading academic outlets. The authors provide a consolidated nomological net of digital transformation by synthesizing themes and dominant theories apparent in existing digital transformation literature, which will be useful for future academic studies.
翻译:近些年来,由于采用数字技术,各组织打算经历前所未有的变革,因此,学术界已作出大量努力,试图更好地了解商业组织的数字转型现象,然而,以综合理论定位为支撑的关于数字转型的累积研究传统,由于定义松散、术语混乱和缺乏其名词网的总体框架而受到损害,因此,本文件通过批判性地分析2013年至2021年期间在30多个主要学术机构发表的174篇经同行评审的期刊文章,系统地审查关于数字转型概念的各种零碎文献,作者通过综合现有数字转型文献中展示的主题和主导理论,提供了一个数字转型综合学统,对今后的学术研究有用。