[en] Grand visions for organizational transformation increasingly build on fashionable information technologies. Organizational leaders may be tempted to adopt these visions due the high degree of legitimacy and mobilization they afford. However, their fashionable nature makes adoption risky. In this paper, we explore how organizations can manage this risk and successfully navigate the adoption of fashionable organizing visions. Specifically, we track how over the last five years the European Blockchain Partnership adopted a self-sovereign identity organizing vision based on blockchain. We find that successful adoption requires dynamic coupling and decoupling between vision and IT – both on a discursive and the material levels. Moreover, it requires effective management of ‘sensegiving’ and ‘sensebreaking’ by the innovation community.
Research center :
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations
Disciplines :
Management information systems Computer science
Author, co-author :
Höß, Alexandra ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX
Rieger, Alexander; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Roth, Tamara; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
FRIDGEN, Gilbert ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX
Young, Amber Grace; University of Arkansas > Sam M. Walton College of Business
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Managing Fashionable Organizing Visions: Evidence From the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure
Publication date :
June 2023
Event name :
Thirty-first European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023)
H2020 - 814654 - MDOT - Medical Device Obligations Taskforce
FnR Project :
FNR13342933 - Paypal-fnr Pearl Chair In Digital Financial Services, 2019 (01/01/2020-31/12/2024) - Gilbert Fridgen
Name of the research project :
U-AGR-8121 - MinDIGI_Digital Identities for Luxembour - FRIDGEN Gilbert
Funders :
FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche [LU] Ministry for Digitalisation [LU] UE - Union Européenne [BE]
Funding text :
This research was funded in part by: Luxembourg’s Ministry for Digitalisation; the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) grant reference 14783405; FNR and PayPal, PEARL grant reference 13342933/Gilbert Fridgen; and the European Union (EU) within its Horizon 2020 programme, project MDOT (Medical Device Obligations Taskforce) grant agreement 814654. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.