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CALL FOR PAPERS
6th Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) Workshop
18th-20th September 2019
Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Following the tradition of previous
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the 6th Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) workshop
will focus on the relationship between Platform Ecosystems and
Information Infrastructures. The term ecosystem generally refers
to a group of interacting organizations that depend on each
other’s activities (Jacobides et al. 2018). Platform ecosystems
are the structures of complementary roles, resources and
activities between a group of organizations that are not reducible
to the sum of their bilateral connections (Adner 2017; Jacobides
et al 2018; Kapoor 2018). Yet, in the digital economy, platform
ecosystems largely depend on and are enabled by existing
information infrastructures. Although digital infrastructures have
a key role in developing ecosystem complementarities the
conceptual and empirical evidence around the phenomenon is scarce.
How do existing infrastructures facilitate the emergence of
platform ecosystems? We know that properties and characteristics
of digital infrastructures enable the reconfigurability and
reprogrammability of products and platforms after the point of
production (Henfridsson et al. 2018; Kallinikos et al. 2013; Yoo
et al. 2010). What role does this play in enabling
inter-organization complementarities and spurring digital
innovation? (Holmström 2018; Monteiro 2018).
We encourage conceptualizations of the relation between Platform
Ecosystems and Information Infrastructures. We are also interested
in empirical contributions that trace the dynamic relationship
between infrastructures, ecosystems and platforms in different
empirical settings and theoretical contributions that
conceptualize the transformation of digital infrastructures into
platforms or into platform ecosystems and vice versa (de Reuver et
al. 2016; Gawer 2014; Hanseth and Bygstad 2018; Helmond 2015;
Kornberger et al. 2017; Plantin et al. 2018; Rolland et al. 2018;
Zittrain 2008). The ubiquitous presence of mega platform
ecosystems working as infrastructures across industries, such as
Facebook, Google and Amazon, calls for innovative conceptual
toolkits and imaginative approaches to research. It also asks to
account for the importance of data exchange and the
infrastructural work sustaining it (Alaimo and Kallinikos 2017;
Gerlitz and Helmond 2013; Nieborg and Helmond 2018).
We call for contributions that focus on either the special theme
of Platform Ecosystems and Information Infrastructures or the
general theme of Innovation in Information Infrastructures based
on empirical research in relevant settings. We anticipate
contributions which draw from different empirical settings. We
also encourage cross-disciplinary contributions and different
disciplinary approaches.
We call for contributions related to, but not limited to, the
following themes:
* Platform Ecosystems and Information Infrastructures
* The platformization of existing infrastructures
* The infrastructuring of platforms
* Transformation in digital infrastructures
* Emergence of mega platform ecosystems and the role of
information infrastructures
* The design, development and implementation of information
infrastructures in different empirical settings (e.g. e-health,
e-justice, digital advertising, video gaming, e-finance)
* The governance and control of information infrastructures
* Information infrastructure standards
* Market infrastructures
* Methodological challenges in studying information
infrastructures and large platform ecosystems
References
* Adner, R. (2017). Ecosystem as structure: an actionable
construct for strategy. Journal of Management, 43(1), 39-58.
* Alaimo, C., and Kallinikos, J. (2017). Computing the Everyday:
Social Media as Data Platforms, The Information Society, 33(4):
175-191.
* de Reuver, M., Sørensen, C. and Basole, R.C., (2016). The
digital platform: a research agenda. Journal of Information
Technology, pp.1-12.
* Gawer, A., (2014). Bridging differing perspectives on
technological platforms: Toward an integrative framework. Research
Policy, 43(7), pp.1239-1249.
* Hanseth, O. and Bygstad, B. (2018) Platformization,
infrastructuring and platform-oriented infrastructures. A
Norwegian e-health case. Working Papers in Information Systems,
Infromation Systems Group, Department of Informatics, University
of Oslo, WP 3/2018
* Helmond, A. (2015). The platformization of the web: Making web
data platform ready. Social Media+ Society, 1(2).
* Henfridsson, O., Nandhakumar, J., Scarbrough, H., and
Panourgias, N. (2018). Recombination in the open-ended value
landscape of digital innovation. Information and Organization,
28(2), 89-100.
* Holmström, J. (2018). Recombination in digital innovation:
Challenges, opportunities, and the importance of a theoretical
framework. Information and Organization, 28(2), 107-110.
* Jacobides, M. G., Cennamo, C. and Gawer, A. (2018) Towards a
Theory of Ecosystems. Strategic Management Journal 39.8: 2255-276.
* Kallinikos, J., Aaltonen, A., and Marton, A. (2013). The
Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts, MIS Quarterly, (37:2)
pp. 1-33.
* Kapoor, R. (2018). Ecosystems: broadening the locus of value
creation. Journal of Organization Design, 7(1), 12.
* Kornberger, M., Pflueger, D., & Mouritsen, J. (2017).
Evaluative infrastructures: Accounting for platform organization.
Accounting, Organizations and Society, 60, 79-95.
* Monteiro, E. (2018). Reflections on digital innovation.
Information and Organization, 28(2), 101-103.
* Nieborg, D. B., and Helmond, A. (2018). The political economy of
Facebook’s platformization in the mobile ecosystem: Facebook
Messenger as a platform instance. Media, Culture & Society,
* Plantin, J. C., Lagoze, C., Edwards, P. N., & Sandvig, C.
(2018). Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of
Google and Facebook. New Media & Society, 20(1), 293-310.
* Rolland, K. H., Mathiassen, L., and Rai, A. (2018). Managing
Digital Platforms in User Organizations: The Interactions Between
Digital Options and Digital Debt. Information Systems Research,
29(2), 419-443.
* Yoo, Y., Henfridsson, O., & Lyytinen, K. (2010). The new
organizing logic of digital innovation: An agenda for information
systems research. Information Systems Research, 21(4), 724–735.
* Zittrain, J. L. 2008. The Future of the Internet and How to Stop
It. Yale University Press.
Submission
We accept short papers (3 to 4 pages) within the deadline.
They must be submitted online via EasyChair at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iii2019
Important dates:
Deadline for submission of short papers:
11th of June 2019
Decision of acceptance:
10th of July 2019
Final programme available:
10th of August 2019
Workshop:
18th-20th of September 2019
Venue
The 6th edition of the Innovation in Information Infrastructures
Workshop which will be held in the University of Surrey,
Guildford, UK.
The University of Surrey is located in Guildford, Surrey,
approximately 35/40 min from London with trains running from and
to Waterloo every 15 min,
Here a video to have a glimpse of the campus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq10IYUawbo
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Economy
Department of Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Surrey CoDE | Centre for the Digital Economy |
Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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