Leading Digital Transformation

Management, Governance and Control
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-88943-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Business and Digital Transformation

Leading Digital Transformation: Management, Governance and Control explores how digital transformation is reshaping governance, control and management across organizations and society. It examines the effects of digitalization on strategy, structure and systems while offering historical context and addressing key areas such as AI, digital platforms, sustainability, leadership, risk, regulation and ethics.

Uncovering the hidden forces driving digitalization, this book highlights the positive potential for digital technologies to guide and govern organizations toward a better society. In combining analytical depth with thematic breadth, the authors capture the complexity of digital transformation while also addressing practical implications for governance, strategy and control.

Comprehensive and accessible, this book serves as an indispensable guide for those seeking to understand the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation. This is an ideal book for students and practitioners in the areas of digital transformation, innovation, organizational change, corporate governance and leadership.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iveroth, Einar

Lindvall, Jan

Magnusson, Johan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of contributors ix
List of figures xv
List of tables xvii
Foreword xix

1 Introduction 1
EINAR IVEROTH, JAN LINDVALL AND JOHAN MAGNUSSON

PART I
Basics and history 15
2 Information – knowledge as a basis for governance and control 17
JAN LINDVALL
3 Communication: governance challenges with digital communication 33
THERESE HEDMAN MONSTAD
4 Technology: from big physical hardware to invisible services and back
to small physical semiconductors 48
JAN LINDVALL AND DARIUSZ OSOWSKI
5 IT governance: from bureaucracy to paradox 68
JOHAN MAGNUSSON

PART II
Strategy, structure and systems 83
6 Strategy – digital transformation as a prerequisite and means
for new strategies 85
ALF WESTELIUS AND NILS-GÖRAN OLVE
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7 Structure – digital transformation and organization 104
EINAR IVEROTH AND JAN LINDVALL
8 Systems: history and development 126
JOHAN MAGNUSSON

PART III
Application and contemporary issues 137
9 Platforms 139
ANDREAS NILSSON
10 Competence provision 151
PER THILANDER AND BERTIL ROLANDSSON
11 Sustainable development 165
ELISABETH FRISK AND KRISTINA JONÄLL
12 Data governance for digital organizations 182
JONATHAN CRUSOE AND DANIEL NYLÉN
13 Leadership in an algorithm-driven world 195
CHARLOTTA KRONBLAD
14 Consensing for strategic alignment 207
KRISTIAN NORLING
15 Digital transformation and governance from the
customer’s perspective 223
JACOB HALLENCREUTZ AND LOVE WESTIN
16 Digital transformation of the public sector 235
TOMAS LINDROTH
17 Inclusive digital transformation 250
DANIEL CURTO-MILLET
18 AI and governance dilemmas in law enforcement 259
MARIE ENEMAN AND JAN LJUNGBERG
19 Regulation, governance, and AI systems 271
ENSIEH MAHI, JASON CRAWFORD AND MAGNUS STRAND
20 How digital infrastructures are transforming society 289
OWEN ERIKSSON
21 Final words – looking back and ahead 303
EINAR IVEROTH, JAN LINDVALL AND JOHAN MAGNUSSON

Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

Einar Iveroth is Associate Professor & Excellent Teacher at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.

Jan Lindvall is Associate Professor & Excellent Teacher at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.

Johan Magnusson is Professor at the Department of Applied IT, Division of Informatics, Gothenburg University.