Publications
Dissertation:
Organizational dynamics of digital innovation
My dissertation explores the organizational and managerial challenges that arise from systematic involvement of digital technologies in innovation using case studies. It contributes to the literature on digital innovation, which identified systematic involvement of digital technologies as an occasion to revise or problematize existing theoretical perspectives on management of technology and innovation.
Working papers
Hron, Michal. Achieving Digital Innovation through Coordination and Cohesion in Fully Digital Organizations [First round review] Pre-print: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29629.58087
Hron, Michal. Unrooted Fluency: How Junior Professionals Use AI to Navigate Learning, and Performance [First round review] Pre-print: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.36340.46721
Under Review – Conference papers
Five papers currently under review at HICSS 2026 explore ongoing themes in digital innovation, coordination, design science, and AI futures. These contributions include:
- A reconceptualization of rationality in design science research through a Weberian lens
- Design principles for paradox-based collaboration in digital government ecosystems
- A critical realist synthesis for studying digital organizing
- A method-centered literature review on adaptations of agile estimation practices
- A longitudinal analysis of how AI futures are constructed and evolve in management discourse
Published Journal Papers
Innovation Drift
Hron, Michal, Nikolaus Obwegeser, and Sune Dueholm Müller. “Innovation drift: the influence of digital artefacts on organising for innovation.” Innovation (2021): 1-33
Scrum adaptations
Hron, Michal, and Nikolaus Obwegeser. “Why and how is Scrum being adapted in practice: A systematic review.” Journal of Systems and Software (2021): 111110.
Peer-Reviewed conference papers
Hron, Michal. “The Quest for New Theoretical Logics of Digital Innovation: Linking Properties of Digital Artefacts with their Conceptualisations in Organisations.” Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2021
Hron, Michal, and Nikolaus Obwegeser. “Scrum in practice: an overview of Scrum adaptations .” Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2018.
Conference presentations, paper development workshops
Hron, Michal. “Mapping the Ecology of AI Visions in Management Discourse: Combining Interpretive Coding, Generative AI, and Time Series Analysis”, London Text Analytics Conference, Goldsmith University London, September 2025
Hron, Michal. “Coexisting Organizing Visions of Ambiguous Technologies: Ecology of futures in the management-oriented discourse on Artificial Intelligence”, 5th AIS SIG DITE Paper Development Workshop on Digital Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship. University of Hamburg, October 2025
