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Microfoundations of Digital Transformation : An Exploratory study of individuals’ responses to AI implementation in the context of B2B organizationsJelica, Antonia, Seitl Wittusen, Michelle January 2024 (has links)
Background: The development of Artificial intelligence increased has become integral to organizational life, transforming operations by enhancing efficiency and performance. Its ability to replicate complex tasks significantly impacts outcomes, enabling faster and more cost-effective practices. Successful AI adoption requires a focus on individual-level impacts within organizations. Understanding these microfoundations is essential for leveraging AI effectively and promoting organizational development. This underscores the importance of exploring individual-level factors within B2B companies for successful AI implementation. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore Individuals` perception of AI implementation in the context of B2B organization. This by identifying the prominent factors influencing individuals´ responses to AI implementation and how individuals` responses affect the overall implementation. Method: To comprehensively achieve the purpose of this study, a qualitative research design with an inductive approach was employed. This by gathering empirical data collected from seventeen semi-structured interviews and analyzed using a thematic data analysis method. Conclusion: The findings of this study show four major factors: Motivation, Emotion, Cognition, and dynamic orientation significantly influence individuals´ attitudes towards AI implementation. AI's potential to perform human tasks generating both supporting, unsporting and indifference responses affecting the overall implementation.
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Adapt or grow obsolete : A study on developing dynamiccapabilities in a post-IPO settingSedman Jaensson, Daniel, Littzell, Tom January 2022 (has links)
As technology accelerates the dynamism in the global markets, companies are forced to adapt to the changing landscape. A company’s success in navigating the external environment depends on their dynamic capabilities. One of the most critical moments for many companies’ is when they conduct an IPO. Research into how an IPO affects a firm is necessary since newly listed firms have been shown to underperform compared to private firms. Dynamic capabilities have been observed to be of critical importance for IPO firms and previous research suggests that an IPO changes processes that affects a firm's ability to develop dynamic capabilities. This study explores how the development of dynamic capabilities is affected by changes to microfoundations following an IPO. The study gains insight into the subject by conducting interviews with executives from Swedish firms that underwent the IPO process during 2018-2020. The empirical findings indicate that seven microfoundations are affected by going public. The study contributes to prevailing literature by laying the groundwork for future research on how a firm's ability to develop dynamic capabilities is affected by going public and it has the potential to be a practical tool when making strategic decisions during and after an IPO process.
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Dynamic Capabilities in IT-assisted Alliance Creation: A Study of Higher Education InstitutionsMehmedovic, Tarik January 2012 (has links)
Dynamic capabilities, a relatively new concept in strategic management, are subject to a variety of streams and points of view in the available literature, where the focus is still mainly on debating the general concepts, overall frameworks and classifications. The current consensus is that dynamic capabilities are highly context-based, depending on firm types, timeframes and a variety of other factors. However, what current research fails to adequately address are studies of individual cases of particular types of firms in their specific business environments, as well as how dynamic capabilities and their foundations are created and how they evolve in a specific, limited context. What these individual cases can contribute to the overall area of research are refined tools and frameworks for context-specific creation of dynamic capabilities, and thus their importance cannot be ignored. This study uses qualitative research to observe a case of a commercial higher-education institution in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a developing market. The organization is highly IT-reliant, and one of the main characteristics of the institution is its flexibility and adaptability to change. In the recent couple or years, the institution switched several crucial partners, whose resources it uses for teaching. These factors make this organization interesting for investigation of dynamic capabilities in the particular context of constant change. The study uses mainly observation, but is supplemented by an interview and questionnaires. The researcher spent time working at the institution during a crucial timeframe of alliance-switching, and this experience fuels the observation. The results, including a developed model, present a good way to observe dynamic capabilities in a particular context, one based on activities and foundations that fuel dynamic capabilities in organizations.
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What determines the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor? A literature reviewKnoblach, Michael, Stöckl, Fabian 10 January 2019 (has links)
This paper reviews the status quo of the empirical and theoretical literature on the determinants of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. Our focus is on the two-input constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function. By example of the U.S., we highlight the distinctive heterogeneity in empirical estimates of σ at both the aggregate and industrial level and discuss potential methodological explanations for this variation. The main part of this survey then focuses on the determinants of σ. We first review several approaches to the microfoundation of production functions, especially the CES production function. Second, we outline the construction of an aggregate elasticity of substitution (AES) in a multi-sectoral framework and investigate its dependence on underlying sectoral elasticities. Third, we discuss the influence of the institutional framework on the determination of σ. The concluding section of this review identifies a number of potential empirical and theoretical avenues for future research. Overall, we demonstrate that the effective elasticity of substitution (EES), which is typically estimated in empirical studies, is generally not an immutable deep parameter but depends on a multitude of technological, non-technological and institutional determinants.
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