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Digital innovation and upper echelon dynamics

Published on February 27, 2025   18 min

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Hi. My name is Peiwen Wang and you can call me Dana. I'm currently a postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds Business School. My research interest is digital transformation and strategic leadership. So the topic today, Digital Innovation and Upper Echelon Dynamics, is one of my favorites.
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We'll start with the explanation of upper echelon theory, following by the role of upper echelon in digital innovation, and we'll end with a real-life case study and some fruitful thought.
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Speaking of upper echelon, many of you may think of the C-suite members or top executives. At the central, we have the CEO. Around the CEO, they are the CFO, CTO, CIO. More recently, there's an emerging role in top management team, the CDO (Chief Digital Officer) who will always be regarded as the one responsible for digital transformation. Interestingly, in the past one or two years, there's another emerging role, CAIO, which is short for the chief AI officer who is also relevant to the utilization of digital technologies.
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Academically speaking, when we're talking about the upper echelon, here is an avoidable theory, the upper echelon theory, which suggests that top management teams make strategic decisions through their own personal lenses. Organisational outcomes are partially

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