Why Context Matters: Explaining the Digital Transformation of the Manufacturing Industry and the Role of the Industry's Characteristics in It

IF 2.4 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Quirin Demlehner, Sven Laumer
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Abstract

Background: The digital transformation is an increasingly popular research topic. Unfortunately, it lacks a common and sustainable theoretical fundament. Further, it is unclear which role the characteristics of the affected industries, firms and markets play regarding the impact that the digital transformation has on them. Method: Taking up these two challenges in a combined fashion for one of the economically most important, but also most specialized and physical global industries, we systematically review the latest literature on the digital transformation within the manufacturing context. Results: This work is the first one that provides a valid theoretical basis on the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. Thereby, it becomes clear that this basis is severely depending on its context. In particular, we show that the manufacturing industry is special in several dimensions, mainly due to its high physicality. Many of the connected technological concepts and domains are solely applicable within that particular environment. Also, our results indicate that a notable share of manufacturing firms did not experience any or at least not big impacts by the digital transformation on the business model level but indeed heavy impacts on the process level until now. However, for our initial suspicion that the structural differences between the manufac-turing industry and other more hardware-independent industries are so far reaching as that they would even lead to definitional differences, no evidence was found. Conclusions: This study contributes to the ongoing line of activities trying to streamline the extensive research around the digital transformation and thereby especially emphasizes the importance of context in that area of research.
为什么环境很重要:解释制造业的数字化转型以及行业特征在其中的作用
背景:数字化转型是一个越来越受欢迎的研究课题。不幸的是,它缺乏一个共同的和可持续的理论基础。此外,目前还不清楚受影响的行业、企业和市场的特征在数字化转型对它们的影响中发挥了何种作用。方法:我们系统地回顾了制造业背景下数字化转型的最新文献,以结合经济上最重要,但也是最专业和物理的全球产业之一的这两个挑战。结果:本文首次为制造业数字化转型提供了有效的理论依据。因此,很明显,这一基础严重取决于其背景。特别是,我们表明制造业在几个维度上是特殊的,主要是由于它的高物理性。许多相关的技术概念和领域仅适用于该特定环境。此外,我们的研究结果表明,到目前为止,相当一部分制造企业在商业模式层面上没有经历数字化转型的任何影响,或者至少没有受到重大影响,但在流程层面上确实受到了重大影响。然而,对于我们最初的怀疑,制造业和其他更独立于硬件的行业之间的结构性差异是如此深远,以至于它们甚至会导致定义上的差异,没有发现证据。结论:本研究有助于正在进行的一系列活动,试图简化围绕数字化转型的广泛研究,从而特别强调该研究领域背景的重要性。
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