| dc.contributor.author | Ivarsson, Frida | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-04T07:13:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-04T07:13:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-05-04 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-91-8069-251-9 (PRINT) and 978-91-8069-252-6 (PDF) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2077/75677 | |
| dc.description.abstract | As organizations embrace digital technologies in new ways, they experience
a process known as digital transformation. This process is not just about
technological changes – digital transformation also involves organizational
changes that enable and result from engagements with digital technologies.
Despite the growing knowledge base about this topic, extant digital
transformation research is largely inattentive to how meaning-making shapes
digital transformation.
In this thesis, I outline an approach to unpack meaning-making in digital
transformation with the concepts of frame shifting and frame blending. This
conceptual framework approaches meaning-making through discursive
interactions, or “talking”, where (1) frame shifting manifests when exploring
what could be new in potential futures which involve digital technologies,
and (2) frame blending manifests when identifying what might remain of an
organization’s past in such potential futures.
This work builds on insights from a longitudinal case study of meaning-making
in digital transformation at the incumbent firm Sydved operating in
the Swedish forest industry. The empirical research was carried out between
2018 and 2022. At Sydved, I studied the meaning-making associated with
“injections” of new digital technologies into Sydved’s existing digital
ecosystem. I noticed the temporal character of the meaning-making process
and engaged in exploring how to understand theoretically the role of time in
this process. This led me to the concepts of frame shifting and frame
blending. I also studied changes connected to Sydved’s established digital
application “My Forest” between 2013 and 2022 to illustrate how meaning-making
shaped Sydved’s digital transformation.
The thesis contributes a different conceptual framework to the digital
transformation literature for approaching both meaning-making and
temporality - as in the interplay of potential futures and the past - in digital
transformation. It also contributes to the framing literature by elaborating on
the theoretical understanding of frame shifting and frame blending as well as
extending their field of application to digital transformation as an area of
concern. Finally, it contributes to practice by outlining insights for arranging
and participating in meaning-making during digital transformation. | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | 1. Ivarsson, F., & Svahn, F. (2020). Digital and Conventional Matchmaking – Similarities, Differences and Tensions. Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | 2. Ivarsson, F., & Svahn, F. (2020). Becoming a Digital Ecosystem Orchestrator - The Sydved Case. Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems. | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | 3. Ivarsson, F., & Selander, L. (2021). Coordinating Digital Content Generation. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | 4. Ivarsson, F. (2022). Applying Framing Theory in Digital Transformation Research: Suggestions for Future Research. Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. | en |
| dc.subject | digital transformation, meaning-making, temporality, organizational change | en |
| dc.title | Frame Shifting and Frame Blending in Digital Transformation | en |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.svep | Doctoral thesis | |
| dc.gup.mail | frida.ivarsson@ait.gu.se | en |
| dc.type.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| dc.gup.origin | University of Gothenburg. IT Faculty | en |
| dc.gup.department | Department of Applied Information Technology ; Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi | en |
| dc.gup.defenceplace | Torg Grön, Patricia Building on Friday 26th May at 13.00, at the Department of Applied Information Technology, Forskningsgången 6, Campus Lindholmen, Göteborg. | en |
| dc.gup.defencedate | 2023-05-26 | |
| dc.gup.dissdb-fakultet | ITF | |
