Chief Digital Officers: An Analysis of the Presence of a Centralized Digital Transformation Role

By appointing a chief digital officer (CDO), firms decide for central role responsible their transformation. While CDOs have recently appeared in the C-suites of across globe, current literature lacks insights into specific antecedents CDO presence. Grounded peculiarities age, we provide theoretical arguments explaining how decision to centralize transformation responsibilities might be related urgency and coordination needs. Empirical analyses based on panel data set 913 US European support that needs predict An additional analysis moderating temporal effects reveals that, over time, effect is weakened presence strengthened. We discuss implications research practice regarding presence, TMT more generally, centralization age.