Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

From IT to Digital Transformation: A Long Term Perspective

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Digital Futures, Digital Transformation

Part of the book series: Progress in IS ((PROIS))

Abstract

This chapter takes a long term perspective for the use of IT artifacts in companies and organizations. It analyses the semantical shift in the use of digital artifacts, from IT to IS to digitality. It also reviews how IT use has been integrated in the organizational design and the specific role of “organizational fit”. The chapter also reviews three major international programs which developed a historical perspective for the use of IT: the US program (Harvard), the Japanese program (supported by METI) and the French program, as supported by CIGREF. Finally, the chapter justifies how the concept of use, control and innovation are now shifting from companies towards the whole society, and the specific role of social media as new spaces for innovation and appropriation of IT artifacts.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    Copeland and McKenney (1988).

  2. 2.

    Mason et al. (1997a).

  3. 3.

    Cortada (2004).

  4. 4.

    Cortada (2006).

  5. 5.

    Cortada (2008).

  6. 6.

    Yates (2005).

  7. 7.

    Ravidat et al. (2005), Ravidat and Akoka (2006).

  8. 8.

    See notably Culnan and Swanson (1986).

  9. 9.

    Greenan and Mairesse (2006), Greenan et al. (2010).

  10. 10.

    Swanson and Ramiller (1997), Ramiller and Swanson (2003).

  11. 11.

    Beltran (2010).

  12. 12.

    Hochereau (2010).

  13. 13.

    Mounier-Kuhn (2010).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. European Chair on Intellectual Capital, University Paris-Sud, Sceaux, France

    Ahmed Bounfour

Authors
  1. Ahmed Bounfour
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ahmed Bounfour .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Bounfour, A. (2016). From IT to Digital Transformation: A Long Term Perspective. In: Digital Futures, Digital Transformation. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23279-9_2

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation