scholarly journals Economic Implications of Digital Transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Rita Mura ◽  
Armando Sternieri
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Productivity Paradox ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Controversial Concept

In a firm perspective the simply availability of digital systems does not necessarily lead to success. On the contrary, it requires that firms accompany digital resources with the development of best organizational practices which implicates a transformation in term of e.g. organizational changes and innovation. Digital technologies allow companies to improve productivity in two ways: by making hard improvements that dramatically increase the efficiency of intelligent machine and processes, and by making soft improvements that increase the efficiency of people working together. The paper highlights various discussions on the relationship between ICT investment and productivity. However, this framework has outlined a relatively more cohesive body of thought which, by seeking to overcome the controversial concept of the productivity paradox, highlights the existence of a significant relationship, not just between ICT and productivity, but also between certain multiplying variables which represent ICT and other complementary factors.

scholarly journals Digital Citizenship – A Review of the Academic Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2021) ◽  
pp. 1-XXI
Author(s):  
Birgit Jæger
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Debate

When digital technologies become a part of everyday life in most parts of society, it changes the way we work, organize, communicate, and make relations. It also changes the relationship between the state and its citizens – a relationship usually conceptualized as citizenship. To capture this transformation, a new concept of digital citizenship has emerged. The overall purpose of this paper is to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge about how citizenship is transformed into digital citizenship through a systematic review of the academic literature on the concept of digital citizenship. The literature review identifies four streams of literature in the academic landscape of digital citizenship, and by a content analysis, it outlines the many dimensions and facets of digital citizenship. In this way, the literature review offers a comprehensive picture of both the impacts of the digital transformation on citizenship and the concept within the academic debate.

Technology and Organizational Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 383-408
Author(s):  
Mohsen Attaran ◽  
Sharmin Attaran ◽  
Diane Kirkland
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the changing dimensions of the workplace and highlights the relationship between technology and organizational change. The chapter begins by briefly reviewing some key perspectives that have emerged in the information systems (IS) literature to account for the relationship between technology and organizational change. It highlights the importance of smart workplace technologies, identifies determinants of successful workplace transformation, proposes a conceptual model for implementation, identifies key factors to consider, and covers some of the potential benefits. The chapter argues that digital transformation is more than just implementing digital technologies. Successful digital transformation occurs when business strategies or major sections of an organization are altered.

scholarly journals Examining the Relationship Between Digital Transformation and Work Quality: Substitution Potential and Work Exposure in Gender-Specific Occupations

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (S1) ◽  
pp. 427-453
Author(s):  
Katharina Dengler ◽  
Anita Tisch
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Work Quality ◽  
Work Exposure ◽  
Occupational Tasks ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract Computers can substitute for many tasks currently performed by humans and are likely to change occupations in the near future. However, it is not likely that entire occupations will disappear. In this context, little attention has been paid to possible impacts of digital transformation on aspects of work quality. It would be desirable for changes to ease occupations with high work exposure. In this article, we assume that digital technologies may replace physically demanding jobs mainly performed by men, but not psychosocially demanding jobs mainly performed by women. Thus, the question arises whether social inequality between men and women may increase in the course of digital transformation. Using large-scale administrative and survey data from Germany, we analyse the relationship between digital transformation and work exposure for male- and female-dominated occupations. We measure the degree of digital transformation by occupation-specific substitution potential, that is the extent to which occupational tasks can be replaced by computers or computer-controlled machines. The results imply that digital technologies could relieve men of physically demanding jobs. However, we cannot find any evidence that digital technologies have already caused employment to decline in occupations with physical work exposure.

scholarly journals Genesis of ideologies through the prism of intensive development of information and communication technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey S. Shestopal ◽  
Alexey Y. Mamychev ◽  
Svetlana V. Kachurova ◽  
Evgeniy V. Kachurov
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intensive Development ◽  
Government Institution

The new milestones should be expected with the formation of a digital civilization, in the development of all institutions of social relations. Within the mainstream of present study, the authors aim to trace the evolution of ideological institutions, to describe the potential threats and risks for a government institution associated with the introduction of digital technologies resulted in the modern transformation of the value and regulatory foundations of society through the new challenges of digital transformation of international, state-law and social relations. Presently, the two definitions are constituting the concept of ideology. The first one is claiming the “false consciousness” (K. Marx); the second one -“enlightened false consciousness” (P. Sloterdayk). This constructional evolution of the relationship between phenomenology and ideology that is in the center of the study of numerous scholars exists over a century. Along with this story, the philosophy itself as a science had been considerably changed. Such a sharp deviation of the various theories of knowledge of the last two centuries was caused exclusively by the practical orientation of ideological consciousness.

scholarly journals Digital technologies: new forms and tools of business activity

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Ablyazov ◽  
Julia Asaturova ◽  
Vadim Koscheyev
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
New Business ◽  
Rates Of Growth

The digital transformation of business activity is characterized by diffusion of innovative technologies, integration of physical and digital systems. The unprecedented digital revolution has substantially transformed forms of business activity and has given auxiliary options for implementation of new business ideas laying the groundwork for investment climate. The new forms of business activity have different propagation dynamics and they generate in most cases quite different patterns of growth and evolution. The innovative tools and operating models of business activity have got a significant effect on geography and size of prospective market, competitive environment and speed of goods substitution. Changes in global economics in the last ten years have shown that technology companies are the leaders by rates of growth and market capitalization. At the same time, their digital products and developments are key factors in the dynamic development of traditional industries of their economics. The processes of forming and development of business (entrepreneurial) initiative under conditions of introduction of digital economics’ elements in different spheres of socioeconomic interaction have been covered in the article.

scholarly journals Blessing or curse: Does digitalization foster business model innovation? Evidence from a quantitative empirical study

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Patrick Ulrich ◽  
Alexandra Fibitz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Business World ◽  
Digital Strategy ◽  
The Relationship

This study analyses whether and how digital transformation affects business models. Digitalization influences businesses regardless of size, industry, and structure. Thus, companies are often forced to rethink their value architecture in order to remain competitive and not vanish from the business world. Therefore, deepening the understanding of the relationship between digitalization and business models is of utmost importance for both practice and academia. We examine the interdependencies of the utilization of digital technologies and the execution of a digital strategy on business model innovation, and the extent to which the digitalization level is influencing this relation. Furthermore, we depict the results from a quantitative study among a sample of 166 German companies. The results indicate that business model innovation is positively influenced by a higher pursuit of digital technologies and the adoption of certain digital strategies. The digitalization cluster further stresses the importance of digital actions for the companies’ sustainability.

scholarly journals Increasing population involvement in the electoral process through the introduction of remote digital technologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Ten
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Remote Participation

There are in article discussed the positive aspects of the digital transformation of the electoral process, readers focused on the problem of low level of citizen involvement in the electoral process. In addition, there are described the organizational and legal aspects of this issue and proposed acceptable ways of solving the problem through the use of remote technologies. There are in article reflected possible obstacles in the implementation of digital systems of remote participation of voters in the political process.

سحوق العمل العراقي من التقليدية الى الرقمية – تحديات ومعالجات

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (69) ◽  
pp. 114-130
Author(s):  
هند عبد المجيد حمادي
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
The Relationship

The study confirms that digital technologies have become closely related to labor markets, by providing the labor market with qualifications, human capital with skills and high experience, and on the efficiency of the performance of the digital transformation process, and therefore the hypothesis of the study is based on the existence of positive repercussions for the digital economy and investment in it in order to address the challenges that Facing the Iraqi labor market and then the digital transformation process, the study aims to demonstrate the reality of the digital technology sector in the Iraqi labor market by monitoring the qualitative indicators related to digital transformation, and then analyzing the reality of the relationship between digital technologies and the labor market. The importance of the study lies in the link between digital technologies and the labor market and the role of digital technologies in stimulating the labor market.

scholarly journals The future of productivity

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Pilat ◽  
Chiara Criscuolo
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Productivity Slowdown ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

This article summarises emerging evidence on the relationship between productivity and the digital transformation, based on work underway in the OECD’s Going Digital project. The article starts by discussing the relationship between the global productivity slowdown and the diffusion of digital technologies and related processes across firms and industries. It then outlines the role of structural factors in digital adoption, before concluding with a brief discussion on policies to strengthen future productivity growth.

scholarly journals Towards a Practice of Palimpsestic Listening

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-153
Author(s):  
Richard Cross
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Audio Processing ◽  
Sound Installation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Time Stretching

This article invites reflection on the ambiguity of sonic temporalities as the lines between physicality and immediacy become increasingly blurred. Through the notion that digital technologies are haunted by analogic process, I foreground the concept of Palimpsestic Listening to explore the musical qualities and critical resonances of sonic acts and objects in hybrid physical/digital systems that evoke layered temporalities that are ‘historically distinct nonetheless linked’. I also seek to illustrate the significance of engaging practically with this concept by discussing the methods behind my composition D/ta Ro} – A Dialectical Trash Heap, a sound installation that interrogates the relationship between sonic materiality and digital audio processing and how acts of erasure and time-stretching might influence the layering of disparate sound materials.

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