Dear Colleagues,

Today, innovation management of organizations in many ways has been affected by both digitalization and digital transformation. This, in turn, creates both challenges and opportunities for the organizations regarding the management of their innovation processes in the digital age (Appio et al., 2021). Even though digital transformation in organizations has been attracting tremendous attention in practice within the past few years, further research still needs to be undertaken to better understand how innovation processes in organizations should be managed, particularly in the digital age (Ivančić et al., 2019; Nambisan et al., 2017).

In this Special Issue, we are seeking submissions that outline and discuss both challenges and opportunities that digital transformation creates for innovation management of organizations, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Relevant topics might include but are not limited to:

• Theorizing innovation management of organizations in the digital era;
• Stakeholder engagement in digital innovation management;
• Open innovation and digital transformation;
• Barriers of organizational innovation management in the digital age;
• The effects of digital transformation on business model innovation;
• New approaches of innovation management to facilitate digital transformation, such as living labs;
• The impact of digital technology on early-stage innovations (i.e., prototyping);
• Digitalization and automation value in the public sector;
• Innovation management within federated networks.

We look forward to receiving your submissions for this Special Issue to address these topics and more.

• Appio, F. P., Frattini, F., Petruzzelli, A. M., & Neirotti, P. (2021). Digital transformation and innovation management: A synthesis of existing research and an agenda for future studies. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 38(1), 4-20.
• Ivančić, L., Vukšić, V. B., & Spremić, M. (2019). Mastering the digital transformation process: Business practices and lessons learned. Technology Innovation Management Review, 9(2).
• Nambisan, S., Lyytinen, K., Majchrzak, A., & Song, M. (2017). Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing innovation management research in a digital world. MIS quarterly, 41(1).

Dr. Abdolrasoul Habibipour
Dr. Evdokimos I. Konstantinidis
Dr. Aya Rizk
Guest Editors

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• innovation management 
• digital transformation 
• digitalization 
• organization 
• open innovation 
• stakeholder engagement