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Industry 4.0 Technology: A Cross-Industry View Of Adoption, Usage And Covid-19 Effects, Dawn Gregory

Business Administration Dissertations

Industry 4.0 technology (I4.0) is inescapable. It transforms the way businesses and customers interact and revolutionizes how organizations produce goods and services (SAP Insights, 2020). It requires a level of agility that many organizations do not possess. Defending against disruptive business models is no longer enough. Organizations must be nimble to optimize assets and resources in response to adversity. In March 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic ushered a devastating blow to the U.S. economy and job market with pervasive shocks that continue to be a business threat. In response, many organizations are accelerating automation, digitization, and communication capabilities to close …

The Role Of Collaborative Governance In Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chains: A Proposed Framework, Denise Mccurdy

Business Administration Dissertations

The blockchain age is dawning. Firms large and small are teaming up with partners and solution providers to deploy blockchain, especially in supply chains, often called the “sleeping giant” use case. But blockchain is still new, and despite early successes in simulated environments, how companies need to collaborate in a blockchain world is unclear.

To help close the blockchain collaboration research gap, this design science study explores the technological and ecosystem business decisions required to deploy an interoperable blockchain solution. The research partially builds a supply chain artifact, and the challenges experienced by the design team prompts further investigation with …

Organizational Learning Through Disruptive Digital Innovation. A Blockchain Implementation, Veneetia Johnson

Business Administration Dissertations

Organizational learning and management are at a transition point because of the shift in disruptive digital innovations (DDI). Organizing axioms are challenged or fundamentally changed by the nature of innovation (Nambisan, Lyytinen, Majchrzak, & Song, 2017). There is widespread recognition that investing in organizational learning drives change and innovation (Linares, 2017). The early research examined DDI and the factors that enable or inhibit it. However, there is a limited amount of research on the relationship between DDI and organizational learning. More specifically, research that is conducted to understand the theoretical relationship between organizational learning and DDI is needed. The phenomenon …