The Role of Social Aspects in Digital Innovation Networks
2012 (English)In: IRIS 35: Proceedings of the 35th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia: Designing the Interactive Society, Uppsala: Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University , 2012Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Digital innovation processes are becoming more and more networked, where stakeholders are growing dependent of each other’s competences, resources and knowledge. In networks working with digital innovation, actors need to identify, mobilize and integrate diverse and heterogeneous knowledge resources to be able to innovate successfully. Social aspects seem to be important at the boundaries of communities where heterogeneous actors connect, negotiate and adjust to each other’s perspectives. The aim with this paper is to explain what role relationships play in digital innovation networks as well as to describe how social aspects influence these relationships. A case study approach was selected to study events involving multiple stakeholders in a development project aimed at introducing technology that aid elderly, home care personnel and next of kin by improving the management of home care visits. We describe how social aspects such as trust, interest, and commitment between actors influence the relationships
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University , 2012.
Keywords [en]
digital innovation, innovation networks, heterogeneous networks, relationships, social aspects
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19268OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-19268DiVA, id: diva2:545286
Conference
35th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS'35), Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012
2012-08-192012-08-192023-12-01Bibliographically approved