THE CURVILINEAR INFLUENCE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY SCOPE ON TECHNOLOGICAL VERSUS ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION

Authors : Ebru Öztürk Köse

Pages : 1127-1145

Doi:10.17130/ijmeb.1618857

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Publication Date : 2025-09-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The adoption of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, smart devices, robotics, and blockchain has been an important topic for firms and organizations. This study examines the link between digital technology scope and innovation by highlighting differences between technological and organizational innovation. Existing studies have proposed that digital technologies have positive influence on innovation. However, some studies have also highlighted the dark sides of digitalization. In particular, this study argues that firms using a wide range of digital technologies experience negative returns on innovation after a certain point. This study also proposes that this negative return is more likely to happen for organizational innovation. This study tests its hypotheses by using the Eurostat Flash Eurobarometer No. 486 dataset, with a final sample of 15,448 firms from EU and non-EU countries. The hypotheses are supported. The results suggest that digital technology scope negatively influences innovation after a certain point and this negative curvilinear effect is more pronounced for organizational innovation than technological innovation. This study advances the digitalization literature by highlighting the negative returns of digital technologies. It also contributes to digitalization literature by highlighting the differences between technological and organizational innovation when investigating the impact of digital technologies.
Keywords : Dijital Teknoloji Kapsamı, Teknolojik Yenilik, Örgütsel Yenilik

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