The digitization paired-outcome review card
Review capability gain and perceived work risk together without collapsing them into one score.
| Review field | Capability or effectiveness question | Work-risk question | Release boundary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work change | Which selling activity became more effective? | Which task, skill, or role became uncertain? | Name the work change before interpreting the result. |
| Knowledge | What knowledge is now available or required? | Who may be expected to learn it, and with what support? | Do not call provision capability. |
| Control | Which behavior or outcome is more visible? | How might visibility change perceived autonomy or evaluation? | More monitoring is not automatically better control. |
| Communication | What digitization strategy was explained? | Which role, boundary, and uncertainty remain unresolved? | A message is not proof of trust. |
| Outcome | Which effectiveness object was measured? | Which insecurity measure was used? | Keep the two outcomes separate. |
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Reference & Evidence
Source: Author's review framework grounded in Johnson and Bharadwaj (2005) and Ahearne, Hughes, and Schillewaert (2007). The prompts are synthetic and do not assess a current workforce or implementation.
Each line is a claim from the register this journal publishes against, resolved from the register at build time.
- A The sample, verbatim: "using data from salespeople in 168firms they assess the moderating effects of environmentallevel motivational factors and firm level ability factors" Johnson & Bharadwaj. (2005) ·
JB05-C1 - A The finding is called paradoxical by the authors themselves: "digitization has the paradoxical effect of improving salesperson effectiveness and heightening job insecurity concerns" Johnson & Bharadwaj. (2005) ·
JB05-C2 - A The levers are named in the abstract: "managers can improve the technology-enabled multichannel capabilities of the firm by giving priority attention to human capital improve""ment, sales force control systems, and communication of the digitization strategy" Johnson & Bharadwaj. (2005) ·
JB05-C3 - A The proposed mechanism, in their words: "salespeople using it expand their knowledge and in turn gain improved targeting abilities enhanced presentation skills and increased call productivity" Ahearne, Hughes & Schillewaert. (2007) ·
AHS07-C2 - A Acceptance is the variable, not provision: "it acceptance indeed has a positive effect on sales performance", and the incentive to accept follows from what acceptance buys the salesperson Ahearne, Hughes & Schillewaert. (2007) ·
AHS07-C3
Grades: A, verified against the printed page of the primary source · B, primary source, text layer only · C, authoritative secondary · D, reported.
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