Zeng, J and Glaister, KW orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-108X (2018) Value creation from big data: Looking inside the black box. Strategic Organization, 16 (2). pp. 105-140. ISSN 1476-1270
Abstract
The advent of big data is fundamentally changing the business landscape. We open the ‘black box’ of the firm to explore how firms transform big data in order to create value and why firms differ in their abilities to create value from big data. Grounded in detailed evidence from China, the world’s largest digital market, where many firms actively engage in value creation activities from big data, we identify several novel features. We find that it is not the data itself, or individual data scientists, that generate value creation opportunities. Rather, value creation occurs through the process of data management, where managers are able to democratize, contextualize, experiment and execute data insights in a timely manner. We add richness to current theory by developing a conceptual framework of value creation from big data. We also identify avenues for future research and implications for practicing managers
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, Sage Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Strategic Organization. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | big data, China, knowledge-based view, open innovation, resource management |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2017 12:22 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2018 12:21 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1476127017697510 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124798 |