Introduction-Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age
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This editorial reviews key insights from the literature on digital infrastructures and platforms, present emerging research themes, highlight the contributions developed from each of the six articles in this special issue, and conclude with suggestions for further research.Abstract:
In the last few years, leading-edge research from information systems, strategic management, and economics have separately informed our understanding of platforms and infrastructures in the digital age. Our motivation for undertaking this special issue rests in the conviction that it is significant to discuss platforms and infrastructures concomitantly, while enabling knowledge from diverse disciplines to cross-pollinate to address critical, pressing policy challenges and inform strategic thinking across both social and business spheres. In this editorial, we review key insights from the literature on digital infrastructures and platforms, present emerging research themes, highlight the contributions developed from each of the six articles in this special issue, and conclude with suggestions for further research.read more
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The Early History of IT Outsourcing: A Personal Reflection
TL;DR: In this article , the authors attempt to document the early days of Information Technology Outsourcing, starting with the initial EDS facilities management contracts, which then led to the notion of IT outsourcing and its proliferation.
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Integrating digital platform dynamics into customer orientation research: A systematic review and research agenda
Carolin Castell,Jasmin Kiefer,Sebastian Schubach,Jan H. Schumann,Lorenz Graf-Vlachy,Andreas König +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors organize these contradictions along four types of contextual parameters highlighted by extant customer orientation literature and digital platform research: nature of intelligence, number of customer groups, type of value creation, and type of customer value contribution.
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The Paradoxical Impact of Information Privacy on Privacy Preserving Technology: The Case of Self-Sovereign Identities
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors empirically examined how information privacy influences adoption of self-sovereign identities (SSIs) and found that perceived privacy has no impact on the adoption of an SSI.
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Coalitions of Socio-Technical Infrastructure: Platforms as Essential Services
TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental ways in which delivery platforms and local governments in India collaborated during the COVID19 lockdown in India in 2020 is explored, highlighting how the developmental state mobilized commercial platforms for their constituent socio-technical infrastructural elements.
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Creating PublicSpaces: Centering Public Values in Digital Infrastructures
TL;DR: In this paper , a Dutch nonprofit, Public Spaces, has developed a self-audit method for documenting dependencies on such tools and working to find values-consistent alternatives, a method applicable to other tensions between organizational values and values embedded in digital tools.
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