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Digital transformation: a challenging opportunity for the food industry companies

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dc.abstract.enPurpose Common availability of digital technologies encouraged companies in almost all industries to focus on exploring various ways of benefiting from their adoption and thus taking steps toward their digital transformation. This paper aims to describe the digital transformation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as a challenging opportunity and identify ways in which companies from the food industry address it. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents empirical evidence based on a case study of the Polish freeze-drying market and companies operating on it. This study adopted a single case study research method to describe the digital transformation journey of SMEs. The sample constitutes a single sectoral case study with more than one unit of analysis – sixteen companies. The undertaken approach follows an embedded case study design and allows for an extensive and multidimensional analysis of rich empirical data. Findings The results of this analysis allowed to identify four significant trends describing human resources involvement in the digital transformation of freeze-drying companies in Poland (i.e. visionary top-down, cooperative task-oriented, persuasive bottom-up, chaotic), a detailed catalog of outcomes of digital transformation from the perspective of food industry companies grouped in seven categories and a list of main barriers to digital transformation. Originality/value This paper contributes to expanding knowledge on the practices of food industry companies in addressing challenges posed by the development of information technology and the dynamically changing environment after the COVID-19 pandemic. It contributes further to the discussion related to context-, industry- and country-specific barriers to digital transformation, identifying time-related constraints as an essential barrier to digital transformation.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorMarczewska, Magdalena
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T21:49:15Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T21:49:15Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/BFJ-01-2023-0065
dc.identifier.issn0007-070X
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/104894
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/BFJ-01-2023-0065/full/xml
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationmanagement and quality studies
dc.relation.ispartofBritish Food Journal
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dc.subject.endigital transformation
dc.subject.enSMEs
dc.subject.enPoland
dc.subject.enfood industry
dc.subject.enfreeze-dry
dc.subject.enlyophilization
dc.titleDigital transformation: a challenging opportunity for the food industry companies
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication