TY - JOUR A1 - Dehnert, Maik A1 - Schumann, Josephine T1 - Uncovering the digitalization impact on consumer decision-making for checking accounts in banking JF - Electronic markets N2 - Checking account providers must understand the importance of digital and non-digital service attributes across different customer segments to achieve a product-market fit in digitalization. In particular, various latent personal characteristics influence customer choices in digital banking. However, there is only limited research on banking customer behavior beyond the technology acceptance model, and none that explores customer preferences for checking accounts experimentally. Against this background, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment on customer preferences towards checking accounts in Germany. The outcome of the paper is a detailed quantitative assessment of the relationships between checking account service attributes and a set of latent influencing factors on choice. While customer service experience, the scope of services, and professional expertise are identified as re-occurring critical aspects for customers when choosing their banking service provider, the type of provider and digital product innovation showed little impact on customer choice overall. In multigroup analyses, we reveal the moderating impact of influencing factors on the preference of checking account service attributes. Additional segmentation analyses point to six customer segments from which four still prefer a traditional operating model. The largest segment of traditional product-innovative customers prefers digitalized, i.e., data-driven checking accounts in a mixed-mode with human customer advisory and on-site branch services from a traditional bank. At the other end of the spectrum, a small innovative Fintech customer segment, influenced by non-pragmatism and social norms, prefers a purely digital operating model with data-driven applications in banking. KW - digitalization KW - banking KW - checking account KW - consumer behavior KW - digital transformation KW - fintech Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00524-4 SN - 1019-6781 SN - 1422-8890 VL - 32 IS - 3 SP - 1503 EP - 1528 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schulz, Anne A1 - Eder, Amelie A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Solorio, Samantha Casas A1 - Fabro, Manuela A1 - Brehmer, Nataliia T1 - The digitalization of motion picture production and its value chain implications JF - Journalism and media N2 - Technological change and development have been ongoing in the motion picture industry since its beginnings some 125 years ago. What further advancements of digitalization can be expected over the next decade and what are its implications for the industry’s value chain? To answer this question, we conducted an international two-stage Delphi study. The results suggested a more frequent use of smartphones as cameras, the emergence of full digital film sets and digital star avatars, as well as advancements in VR-based and interactive movies. The findings imply challenges for traditional players in the motion picture value chain. Production technology becomes both simpler and more complex, leading to the threat of new entrants. KW - cinema KW - Delphi study KW - digitalization KW - film KW - movie KW - motion picture KW - technological forecasting Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2030024 SN - 2673-5172 VL - 2 IS - 3 SP - 397 EP - 416 PB - MPDI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Carstens, Nora T1 - Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning BT - inside the digital transformation in Germany JF - Public Management Review N2 - The recently adopted German Online Access Act triggered the creation of digitalization labs for designing digital services, bringing together federal, state, and local authorities; end-users; and private-sector actors. These labs provide opportunities for boundary spanning due to organizational field and lab features. Our comparative case studies on three digitalization labs show variations in boundary spanning and reveal lab members de-coupling from their parent organizations to a varying extent. We have concluded labs offer boundary spanning that supports safeguarding the legitimacy of innovative policy designs but also raise concerns over public accountability. KW - boundary spanning KW - collaboration KW - digitalization KW - inter-governmental relations Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1893803 SN - 1470-1065 SN - 1461-667X VL - 24 IS - 8 SP - 1208 EP - 1225 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beier, Grischa A1 - Ullrich, André A1 - Niehoff, Silke A1 - Reißig, Malte A1 - Habich, Matthias T1 - Industry 4.0 BT - how it is defined from a sociotechnical perspective and how much sustainability it includes - a literature review JF - Journal of cleaner production N2 - Industry 4.0 has had a strong influence on the debate on the digitalization of industrial processes, despite being criticized for lacking a proper definition. However, Industry 4.0 might offer a huge chance to align the goals of a sustainable development with the ongoing digital transformation in industrial development. The main contribution of this paper is therefore twofold. We provide a de-facto definition of the concept "Industry 4.0" from a sociotechnical perspective based on its most often cited key features, as well as a thorough review of how far the concept of sustainability is incorporated in it. KW - sustainability KW - digitalization KW - manufacturing KW - Industry 4.0 KW - definition KW - sociotechnical approach Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120856 SN - 0959-6526 SN - 1879-1786 VL - 259 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bertschek, Irene A1 - Block, Joern A1 - Kritikos, Alexander A1 - Stiel, Caroline T1 - German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic BT - higher impact among digitalized self-employed JF - Entrepreneurship & regional development N2 - In response to strong revenue and income losses facing a large share of self-employed individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency-aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact of this program on the confidence to survive the crisis. We investigate how the digitalization level of self-employed individuals influences the program’s effectiveness. Employing propensity score matching, we find that the emergency-aid program had only moderately positive effects on the confidence of self-employed to survive the crisis. However, self-employed whose businesses were highly digitalized, benefitted much more from the state aid than those whose businesses were less digitalized. This only holds true for those self-employed, who started the digitalization processes already before the crisis. Taking a regional perspective, we find suggestive evidence that the quality of the regional broadband infrastructure matters in the sense that it increases the effectiveness of the emergency-aid program. Our findings show the interplay between governmental support programs, the digitalization levels of entrepreneurs, and the regional digital infrastructure. The study helps public policy to improve the impact of crisis-related policy instruments, ultimately increasing the resilience of small firms in times of crises. KW - self-employment KW - emergency-aid KW - treatment effects KW - COVID-19 KW - entrepreneurship KW - digitalization KW - resilience Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2023.2196267 SN - 0898-5626 SN - 1464-5114 VL - 36 IS - 1-2 SP - 76 EP - 97 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgart, Lene A1 - Boos, Pauline A1 - Braunsmann, Katharina T1 - A circulatory loop BT - the reciprocal relationship of organizations, digitalization, and gender JF - Social inclusion N2 - In the digitalization debate, gender biases in digital technologies play a significant role because of their potential for social exclusion and inequality. It is therefore remarkable that organizations as drivers of digitalization and as places for social integration have been widely overlooked so far. Simultaneously, gender biases and digitalization have structurally immanent connections to organizations. Therefore, a look at the reciprocal relationship between organizations, digitalization, and gender is needed. The article provides answers to the question of whether and how organizations (re)produce, reinforce, or diminish gender‐specific inequalities during their digital transformations. On the one hand, gender inequalities emerge when organizations use post‐bureaucratic concepts through digitalization. On the other hand, gender inequalities are reproduced when organizations either program or implement digital technologies and fail to establish control structures that prevent gender biases. This article shows that digitalization can act as a catalyst for inequality‐producing mechanisms, but also has the potential to mitigate inequalities. We argue that organizations must be considered when discussing the potential of exclusion through digitalization. KW - digitalization KW - gender bias KW - gender inequalities KW - organizations Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i4.7056 SN - 2183-2803 VL - 11 IS - 4 SP - 160 EP - 171 PB - Cogitatio Press CY - Lisbon ER -