Digital Transformation Through the Lens of Digital Data Handling: An Exploratory Analysis of Agri-Food SMEs

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Small Business Strategy Pub Date : 2022-06-20 DOI:10.53703/001c.34642

M. Frau, L. Moi, F. Cabiddu

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Abstract

This study aims to explore digital transformation and the level of sophistication in the digital data handling strategy by agri-food small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By developing an exploratory multiple-case study that involves fourteen food processing SMEs, this paper identifies a data processing flow made up of the following phases: data generation, data acquisition, data storage, data analysis, and data exploitation. In addition, it shows how data processing flow may occur in a number of ways, thereby classifying the agri-food SMEs’ digital transformation as paper master, digital wannabe, and digital champion. Hence, the article contributes to providing the conceptualization of a data processing flow, which includes the progressive stages in data management identified across firms by proposing a data handling strategy framework. Such a framework offers a snapshot of firms at various levels of digitization in their handling of various kinds of data, thus clarifying how the strategies of data processing flow occur.

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数字化数据处理视角下的数字化转型:农业食品中小企业的探索性分析

本研究旨在探索农业食品中小企业（SME）的数字化转型和数字数据处理策略的复杂程度。通过开发一个涉及14家食品加工中小企业的探索性多案例研究，本文确定了由以下阶段组成的数据处理流程：数据生成、数据获取、数据存储、数据分析和数据开发。此外，它还展示了数据处理流程如何以多种方式发生，从而将农业食品中小企业的数字化转型分为论文大师、数字爱好者和数字冠军。因此，本文有助于提供数据处理流程的概念化，其中包括通过提出数据处理战略框架确定的跨公司数据管理的渐进阶段。这样的框架提供了企业在处理各种数据时处于不同数字化水平的快照，从而澄清了数据处理流程的策略是如何发生的。

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Journal of Small Business Strategy Business, Management and Accounting-Strategy and Management

CiteScore

3.60

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审稿时长

4 weeks

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