A socio-cognitive perspective of knowledge integration in digital innovation networks

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dc.check.date2026-10-25
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Stephenen
dc.contributor.authorO’Raghallaigh, Paidien
dc.contributor.authorKelleher, Carolen
dc.contributor.authorAdam, Frédéricen
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T14:47:19Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T14:47:19Z
dc.date.issued2025en
dc.description.abstractDigital innovation is a complex process in which actors seek to create new value pathways by combining digital resources in a layered modular architecture. While IS scholarship has a rich tradition of research on developing and implementing digital artefacts within intra-organisational contexts, our understanding of knowledge integration across distributed innovation networks is nascent and under-theorised. This is an important area of research given the rising importance of digital innovation networks and the challenges faced in integrating specialised knowledge, especially given the greater diversity, speed, reach, and scope made possible by digital technologies. Drawing on in-depth case study findings from a health IoT project involving multiple organisations and disciplines, we explore how knowledge is integrated across boundaries during the initiation stage of a digital innovation network. Our findings point to boundaries related to the digital platform’s organising vision, resource allocation, delivery roadmap, technical architecture, and intellectual property, to name but a few challenges. We then reveal five socio-cognitive modes of knowledge integration which actors strategically enact to cross syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic boundaries: Signalling, Assembling, Contesting, Discounting, and Finalising. The choice of mode depends on the perceived knowledge status (‘what they know’) and social status (‘who they are’) of network actors, which highlight the salience of both social and cognitive dependencies for knowledge integration. We further discuss the contribution of design objects for overcoming differences and distinctions between specialist actors in a digital innovation network.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid101871en
dc.identifier.citationMcCarthy, S., O’Raghallaigh, P., Kelleher, C. and Adam, F. (2025) ‘A socio-cognitive perspective of knowledge integration in digital innovation networks’, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 34(1), 101871 (27pp). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101871en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101871en
dc.identifier.endpage27en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe Journal of Strategic Information Systemsen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16605
dc.identifier.volume34en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/12/RC/2272/IE/Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT)/en
dc.rights© 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDigital innovation networksen
dc.subjectKnowledge boundariesen
dc.subjectSocio-cognitionen
dc.subjectBoundary objectsen
dc.subjectHealth information systemsen
dc.subjectQualitative researchen
dc.titleA socio-cognitive perspective of knowledge integration in digital innovation networksen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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