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A new social science framework for studying the unprecedented social and economic restructuring driven by digital data. Digital data have become the critical frontier where emerging economic practices and organizational forms confront the traditional economic order and its institutions. In The authors associate digital data with the decentering of organizations. As they point out, centered systems make sense only when firms (and formal organizations more broadly) can keep the external world at arm’s length and maintain a relative operation independence from it. These patterns no longer hold. Data transform the production of goods and services to an endless series of exchanges and interactions that defeat the functional logics of markets and organizations. The diffusion of platforms and ecosystems is indicative of these broader transformations. Rather than viewing data as simply a force of surveillance and control, the authors place the transformative potential of data at the center of an emerging socioeconomic order that restructures society and its institutions.
List of contents
Contents
Foreword
Michael Power
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Part I
2 The Epistemic Foundations of Data
3 The Digital Data Revolution
4 The Data Life Cycle
5 Technologies of Difference: Excursus on Surveillance
Part II
6 Decentering Organizations: Data, Knowledge, and Institutional Change
7 Platforms and Ecosystems
8 Data and Ecosystems
9 Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Cristina Alaimo is Assistant Professor (Research) of Digital Economy and Society at LUISS University, Rome.
Jannis Kallinikos is Full Professor of Organization Studies and the CISCO Chair in Digital Transformation and Data Driven Innovation at LUISS University, Rome.
