Making obsolescence obsolete : execution of digital transformation in a high-tech manufacturing SME
Ates, Aylin and Acur, Nuran (2022) Making obsolescence obsolete : execution of digital transformation in a high-tech manufacturing SME. Journal of Business Research, 152. pp. 336-348. ISSN 0148-2963 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.07.052)
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Abstract
Digitally transformed firms show resilience against environmental volatility by regularly developing adaptive capabilities and transforming their processes to mitigate the effects of obsolescence. However, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on the obsolescence notion and means of avoiding it. This paper aims to investigate how firms' empirical sensitivities to evolving environmental changes emerge and materialize into the ongoing management of obsolescence. We undertook an interpretive longitudinal study between 2009-20, capturing both the transformation journey and the habitus of a high-tech SME, which is a family business and located in the UK. In doing so, we develop an integrative framework to explain the interplay between the noncognitive dynamic capabilities, obsolescence, and digital transformation. This study has important implications to boost SMEs' capacity to counter obsolescence. We suggest managers pay attention to the development of noncognitive dynamic capabilities. This, in turn, inadvertently leads to successful digital transformation for obsolescence trap avoidance.
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Ates, Aylin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4072-5519 and Acur, Nuran;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 81681 Dates: DateEventNovember 2022Published6 August 2022Published Online25 July 2022AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Commerce > Marketing. Distribution of products Department: Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 03 Aug 2022 12:08 Last modified: 25 Nov 2024 01:21 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/81681