Digital innovation: Review and novel perspective

•A review of 227 articles integrating insights from eight different disciplines.•A new conceptualization and definition of digital innovation.•Linking central concepts to the new conceptualization of digital innovation.•Organizing cross-disciplinary research on digital innovation around five key themes.•Identifying two promising avenues for future research on digital innovation. While research has produced valuable insights about digital innovation, we lack a comprehensive understanding about its core nature, and research across disciplinary boundaries lacks integration. To address these issues, we review 227 articles on digital innovation across eight disciplines. Based on our findings, we (1) inductively develop a new definition and propose a new framing of current conceptualizations of digital innovation, (2) organize central concepts of the literature on digital phenomena and show how they intersect with our conceptualization, and (3) develop a framework to organize digital innovation research according to five key themes. We conclude by identifying two particularly promising areas of future research.