# Digital Infrastructure as a New Organizational Digital Climate Dimension
## 4 Results
### Connectivity  
Connectivity refers to the ability of people, groups, and organizations to interact with one another through a variety of media, including the Internet/Intranet, social media, and other digital platforms. Connectivity is necessary for employees to meet management's expectations regarding the use of digital technology, promoting digital climate. High-quality connectivity to cloud services, data storage, and collaboration tools is necessary for employees to access and use digital tools and resources. Without reliable and fast connectivity, most digital tools and systems would not operate as intended, severely impeding  
Figure 1: Refining theory through open, axial, and selective coding. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{p{113.8 pt} p{227.6 pt}} \hline \hline \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Axial Code**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Axial Code Description**} \\ \hline Connectivity & Connectivity infrastructure connects people, systems, services, and data to encourage sharing, cooperation, and transparency as an essential enabler for fostering a digital climate. \\ \hline Data lake & Data lakes support organizations to store structured and unstructured data, facilitating access, sharing, extraction, and data-driven solutions as essential enablers in creating a digital climate that fosters collaboration and intelligence. \\ \hline Common Technological language & Common technological language promotes interoperability and communication standards among people, systems, services, and data, across organizational units, fostering a digital climate. \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 3: Axial of digital infrastructure. employees' ability to utilize digital technology. The grounded theory analysis revealed the four open codes of digital connectivity: connectivity standardization, connectivity architecture, networks interconnection, and cloud infrastructure, which serve as enablers of digital climate. Connectivity standardization is crucial for the use of digital technology across large and diverse organizations. It ensures connectivity across different systems, tools, and platforms, facilitating seamless user communication and collaboration. Connectivity standardization is not solely about having the most advanced technology [64]. It is about combining various interests to establish standards that benefit all market participants, often integrating multiple technologies into a single standard. Organizations can foster a more effective, harmonious, and scalable digital climate by creating standardized connectivity that aids employees in meeting management expectations regarding the use of digital technology and contributes to the broader digital transformation of the organization. The participants argued that a lack of connectivity standards causes miss-connectivity among co-workers and their inability to use systems and data of other organizational units. The following examples highlight connectivity standardization as an enabler of digital climate:  
1. \"...but my managers expect me to comply with the standards and architecture and to understand the meaning of using uniform digital standards to improve the connectivity and the organization's capabilities...\"
2. \"We understand the importance of digital standards and what our managers expect, but we don't have the suitable infrastructure to enable them; thus, we beg for it.\"  
Connectivity architecture is a necessary enabler of a digital climate, acting as a foundation for using digital technology within an organization. It fosters collaborative workflows, improved information sharing, and enhanced cross-organizational processes. Employees in the case study organization believe that connectivity architecture is a key enabler of collaboration and data usage. They argue that a well-designed connectivity architecture supports digital collaboration tools and communication channels, which promotes seamless interactions across departments and teams.