Responsibility in the era of digital innovation: temporal dynamics and evolving paradigms

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dc.check.date2027-01-28en
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dc.contributor.authorO’Reilly, Katieen
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Stephenen
dc.contributor.authorRowan, Wendyen
dc.contributor.editorCarroll, Noelen
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-03T14:26:55Z
dc.date.available2025-11-03T14:26:55Z
dc.date.issued2026-01-28en
dc.description.abstractDigital innovation is a burgeoning area of study which investigates how organisations and entrepreneurs leverage malleable digital resources to develop novel IT artefacts. However, despite the changing nature of systems development, our understanding of responsibility remains rooted in prior thinking which conceptualised it as a static obligation that ends, with the release of a system. In this chapter, we discuss responsibility in the era of digital innovation by investigating how practitioners and researchers think about responsibility within increasingly boundaryless digital innovation ecosystems and perpetually evolving IT artefacts. Building on insights from qualitative interviews with developers, IT ethicists, and user participant experts, our findings highlight the importance of accessibility, user-centric design, and foresight to anticipate unintended consequences and capitalise on resource and knowledge diversity. Through this research, we assert the need for responsibility to be reconceptualised as a continuous process that persists throughout the life cycle of digital innovations.en
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dc.identifier.citationO’Reilly, K., McCarthy, S. and Rowan, W. (2026) 'Responsibility in the era of digital innovation: temporal dynamics and evolving paradigms', [forthcoming] in Carroll, N. (ed.) Research Handbook on Digital Transformation and Responsibility. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, pp. 186-204.en
dc.identifier.endpage204en
dc.identifier.isbn978 1 03533 987 7en
dc.identifier.startpage186en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18140
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEdward Elgar Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofCarroll, N. (ed.) Research Handbook on Digital Transformation and Responsibility. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgaren
dc.rights© 2026, Edward Elgar.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectResponsible innovationen
dc.subjectDigital resourcesen
dc.subjectUse recombinationen
dc.titleResponsibility in the era of digital innovation: temporal dynamics and evolving paradigmsen
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