Digital-enabled strategic agility: it’s time we examine the sensing of weak signals
本文指出信息系统研究多关注战略敏捷性的响应环节，忽视了感知环节，尤其缺乏对弱信号感知的研究。基于社会网络理论，提出两个研究方向及若干研究路径，以推动数字时代弱信号感知与战略敏捷性的研究。
Information Systems research provides significant insight into how information technologies affect the strategic agility of firms. Most research to date has studied the responding element of agility at the expense of sensing. Further, extant research has mainly focused on how the sensing of formal and strong signals might influence agility. With the highly turbulent and fast-changing competitive landscape of the digital age, we argue for the need to expand the focus of this research to include examining how managers identify and make sense of weak signals, and how the sensing of weak signals influences digital-enabled strategic agility. Drawing on social network theory, this paper presents two streams of research and several research avenues that can stimulate and potentially guide research efforts on this topic.