Achieving tangible benefits from digitalization often requires changes in processes, culture and reward systems. This need is especially acute in research and development, yet the attitudes and skills of R&D staff may impede their use of automation. We examine the ongoing digitalization of R&D activities at Unilever. Using thematic analysis, we analyze in-depth interviews to uncover attitudes towards, and experiences with, digitalization of R&D using robots. We build on these findings and conduct sequence analysis to extract a number of within-interview sequential associations between themes. These associations have been mapped onto patterns aligned with four established models of digitalization and IT adoption: the Technology Acceptance Model, Resistance to Change, Task Technology Fit and Process Virtualization.
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Li, C., Mehandjiev, N., James, A., Shahgholian, A., Lampel, J., & Allen, M. (2020). Adoption of digital technology in corporate R&D context. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Vol. 381 LNBIP, pp. 551–566). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44322-1_41
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