Digital technologies fuel technological change that generates substantial uncertainty and complexity. Corporate actors rely on their technological frames to cope with these challenges. Technological frames determine how actors interpret, assess, and shape a technology’s development, usage, and trajectory. However, the research fails to provide insights into the microfoundations that can explain the consequences of heterogeneity in technological frames. We argue that this research gap is due to a lack of a proper measurement instruments. To address this gap, we theorize on the antecedent of technological frames on the individual level and undertook a rigorous scale-development process encompassing five steps and samples. The resulting measurement instrument assesses five distinct but interrelated dimensions of an actor’s technological frame (personal attitude, application value, organizational influence, industrial influence, and supervisor influence). This instrument provides a theoretical and methodological foundation for future research on technological frames and corporate strategizing in the digital age.

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数字时代的技术框架：理论、测量仪器和未来研究领域

数字技术推动了技术变革，从而产生了巨大的不确定性和复杂性。企业参与者依靠他们的技术框架来应对这些挑战。技术框架决定了参与者如何解释、评估和塑造技术的发展、使用和轨迹。然而，该研究未能提供对可以解释技术框架异质性后果的微观基础的见解。我们认为，这种研究差距是由于缺乏适当的测量仪器。为了弥补这一差距，我们在个人层面对技术框架的前因进行了理论分析，并进行了严格的规模开发过程，包括五个步骤和样本。由此产生的测量工具评估了参与者技术框架的五个不同但相互关联的维度（个人态度、应用价值、组织影响、行业影响和主管影响）。该工具为未来研究数字时代的技术框架和企业战略提供了理论和方法基础。