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摘要
数字技术已迅速渗透到企业、行业和经济网络中。这一发展使人们期望公司的首席信息官(CIO)能够扮演更具战略性的角色,包括创新领导和数字探索。在本研究中,我们从高层的角度出发,认为首席信息官的职业多样性和角色任期对企业在其专利组合中探索数字技术的程度(即数字探索)至关重要。我们预计首席信息官的职业多样性与数字探索之间存在 U 型关系,而首席信息官的角色任期与数字探索之间存在倒 U 型关系。我们使用美国公司的跨行业面板对我们的概念模型进行了检验。正如预测的那样,结果显示,在低和高职业多样性情况下,数字化探索程度较高;在中等职业多样性情况下,数字化探索程度较低,即呈 U 型。反之,低和高职位任期的数字化探索程度较低,而中等职位任期的数字化探索程度较高,即呈倒 U 型。这些研究结果表明,首席信息官确实成为了探索和塑造数字化创新的战略领导者。
Shaping Innovation Outcomes: The Role of CIOs for Firms’ Digital Exploration
Digital technologies have rapidly pervaded firms, industries, and economic networks. This development has raised expectations that a firm’s chief information officer (CIO) will take a more strategic role, including innovation leadership and digital exploration. In this study, we argue from an upper echelons perspective that CIOs’ career variety and role tenure are critical in shaping the extent to which firms explore digital technologies in their patent portfolio, i.e., digital exploration. We expect a U-shaped relationship between CIO career variety and digital exploration, and an inverted U-shaped relationship between CIO role tenure and digital exploration. We test our conceptual model using a cross-industry panel of U.S. firms. As predicted, the results show high digital exploration for low and high career variety, and low digital exploration for moderate career variety, i.e., a U-shape. Conversely, they show low digital exploration for low and high role tenure, and high digital exploration for moderate role tenure, i.e., an inverted U-shape. These insights indicate that CIOs do become strategic leaders in exploring and shaping digital innovation.
期刊介绍:
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces is a leading interdisciplinary journal that brings together chemists, engineers, physicists, and biologists to explore the development and utilization of newly-discovered materials and interfacial processes for specific applications. Our journal has experienced remarkable growth since its establishment in 2009, both in terms of the number of articles published and the impact of the research showcased. We are proud to foster a truly global community, with the majority of published articles originating from outside the United States, reflecting the rapid growth of applied research worldwide.