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dc.contributor.authorLorenz, Felix
dc.contributor.authorBuchwald, Arne
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-08T07:54:21Z
dc.date.available2023-03-08T07:54:21Z
dc.identifier.issn0960-085X
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0960085X.2023.2178742
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/7196
dc.description.abstractSeveral organisations have introduced a new leadership role, the Chief Digital Officer (CDO), as a centralised role in their top management team (TMT), tasked with accelerating and coordinating their digital transformation. While previous research proposes a complementary, tight alignment between the CDO and the Chief Information Officer (CIO), role redundancies and the fight for recognition and resources also suggest an inherent tension. We provide insights into the CIO-CDO collaboration quality based on role, TMT cooperation, conflict theory, and a dyadic design approach of 11 CIO-CDO relationships with 33 expert interviews in two waves. Our findings indicate that the CIO-CDO relationship may not always be as complementary as proposed in the literature; instead, in the vast majority of our dyads, there is too much role conflict to achieve tight alignment, leading to separation behaviour between the roles. We identify the involvement in the introduction of the other role, the CIO demand-side orientation, and the CDO supply-side orientation as important contingency factors determining the quality of the CIO-CDO relationship. Finally, unless the CIO-CDO relationship resembles a perfect match, a unified Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) role may better resolve the challenges we identify in our sample’s dyads. Our insights extend the understanding of the CIO-CDO relationship.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe are grateful for the excellent guidance in the review process provided by the Special Issue Editors Noel Carroll, Nik Rushdi Hassan, Iris Junglas, Thomas Hess and Lorraine Morgan. We would also like to thank the Associate Editor and the three anonymous reviewers for their help in improving the manuscript.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectDigital Transformationen_US
dc.subjectCIOen_US
dc.subjectCDOen_US
dc.subjectCDIOen_US
dc.subjectFunctional TMT membersen_US
dc.titleA perfect match or an arranged marriage? How chief digital officers and chief information officers perceive their relationship: a dyadic research designen_US
dc.identifier.journalEuropean Journal of Information Systemsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEBS University of Business and Law, Germanyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentGhent Universityen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1476-9344
vlerick.knowledgedomainDigital Transformationen_US
vlerick.knowledgedomainOperations & Supply Chain Managementen_US
vlerick.typearticleVlerick strategic journal articleen_US
vlerick.vlerickdepartmentTOMen_US
dc.identifier.vperid270410en_US


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