Track Co-Chairs
Xiaobo (Bob) Xu
Professor and Department Head of Intelligent Operations and Marketing
Xiaobo.Xu@xjtlu.edu.cn
International Business School, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
Weiyong Zhang
Associate Professor
wyzhang@odu.edu
Old Dominion University, VA, USA
Fei Ma
Professor and Associate Dean
mafeixa@chd.edu.cn
Chang’an University, Xi’an, China
Brief Introduction
Digital innovations have rooted in cloud computing, distributed computing, mobile computing, digital platform, Internet of Things, social media, artificial intelligence, business data analytics, FinTech, and etc. Digital innovations generate new possibilities for innovation and transformation, resulting in social impact.
It is evident that digital innovations generate social impact by influencing organizational innovation, entrepreneurship, and transformation. Work is increasingly being digitalized or virtualized. Several new digital forms such as crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, have been emerged. Additionally, new business models of the sharing economy have disrupted traditional organizations and created new marketplaces.
While digital innovations have brought many advantages of efficiency, effectiveness, convenience, and competiveness, these advantages are only possible if the information systems of the organizations are aligned with these new digital innovations.
Our track welcomes rigorous and relevant theoretical and empirical research to reassess traditional assumptions and create new theories about digital innovations and social impact. This research challenges require the joint effort from fields of information systems research, management science, organizational studies, business value or other disciplines.
Topics
1. Digital innovation
2. Digital platform
3. Digital transformation
4. Data-driven innovation
5. Digital product development
6. Digital innovation and social impact
7. Digital innovation project management
8. Digital innovation and new business models
9. Perspectives and challenges associated with digital innovation and social impact