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Digital transformation by outflanking: How peripheral agents transform resisting organizations

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Viktor Arvidsson
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Kalle Lyytinen
DOI:10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101924delete
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• The focus of the paper is a city’s 15-year transformation journey wherein peripheral agents deployed Information Technology (IT) to initiate, promote and actualize digital transformation of a resisting organization encumbered with political inertia. • In terms of research method, we draw on a rich data corpus collected from multiple data sources (interviews, archival data, system documentation) to identify and analyze the twists and turns of change events that unfolded during the transformation. • We synthesize and theorize the observed transformation process as a form of outflanking − a process initiating and expanding peripheral IT use in disguise which results in a gradual, and undetected shift in the organization’s power bases later mandating and enabling a change in the organization’s modus operandi.
Keywords:
Digital transformation
Organizational transformation
IT use
Outflanking
IT-use tactics

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Journal of Strategic Information Systems cover
Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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Linköping University
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Weatherhead School of Management
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Umeå University
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