The Digital Transformation of Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Role of Digital Skills and Digital Champions

Stefano D’Angelo, Antonio Ghezzi, Angelo Cavallo, Andrea Rangone, Giulia Murani

2023

Abstract

Digital transformation is perhaps the most pervasive managerial challenge for incumbent firms of the last and coming decades. Digital possibilities need to come together with skilled employees and executives to reveal the transformative power of digital technologies. Despite the contemporary significance, extant literature lacks guidance for digital competence enhancement - i.e., assess digital competencies and carry out effective initiatives to bridge the identified and measured digital competence gaps. Moreover, existing literature on digital skills focuses mainly on the educational context while leaving less explored the corporate context. And more, there is still little evidence on how digital skills can affect entrepreneurship in incumbent organizations. Thus, this study explores how incumbents assess and develop digital skills within their organizations through an in-depth, longitudinal case study of a utility company. We shed light on how incumbents can integrate digital skills in their organizations to embrace digital transformation and initiate corporate entrepreneurship initiatives that leverage the usage of digital technologies. Based on the findings of this study, we contribute to digital skills, digital transformation, and corporate entrepreneurship literature and we offer practical implications for incumbents.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

D’Angelo S., Ghezzi A., Cavallo A., Rangone A. and Murani G. (2023). The Digital Transformation of Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Role of Digital Skills and Digital Champions. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-648-4, SciTePress, pages 349-360. DOI: 10.5220/0011827300003467

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis23,
author={Stefano D’Angelo and Antonio Ghezzi and Angelo Cavallo and Andrea Rangone and Giulia Murani},
title={The Digital Transformation of Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Role of Digital Skills and Digital Champions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2023},
pages={349-360},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011827300003467},
isbn={978-989-758-648-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - The Digital Transformation of Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Role of Digital Skills and Digital Champions
SN - 978-989-758-648-4
AU - D’Angelo S.
AU - Ghezzi A.
AU - Cavallo A.
AU - Rangone A.
AU - Murani G.
PY - 2023
SP - 349
EP - 360
DO - 10.5220/0011827300003467
PB - SciTePress