Sub-theme 56: Organizing for and against Digital Platforms
Convenors:
Georg Reischauer, WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Stefan Haefliger, Bayes Business School, United Kingdom
Evelyn Micelotta, University of Ottawa, Canada
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P-1-06
Platform Strategies I
Chair: Georg Reischauer
Anna Baturevich and Anna Essén
To comply or not to comply – How digital platforms develop functionality within, outside, and at the edges of regulations
in the health tech context
Krithika Randhawa, Virginia Springer and Frank Piller
Selective openness: A platform ecosystem view
Elton Li-Yi and Huiyang Dai
Sword of Damocles: Coopetition tension of complementors and a focal platform
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P-1-06
Platform Strategies II
Chair: Stefan Haefliger
Zeerim Cheung, Eetu K. Poso and Roosa Oinasmaa
From an analog to a digital platform – Digitalization of trading in the Helsinki stock exchange
Mikko Laamanen and Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając
Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment
Mehdi Montakhabi and Christopher Tucci
Unraveling of Ecosystems
Lucia Wuersch, Alain Neher, Jane F. Maley and Marc K. Peter
Embedding digital platforms in the digital internal communication strategy of organisations in the digital age
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U7-P-1-06
Nonmarket Platform Strategies
Chair: Georg Reischauer
Virginia Springer and Krithika Randhawa
Strategic framing of platforms in the industrial metaverse
Yanfei Hu and Mahdi Tavalaei
Managing dependence on digital platforms: A sensemaking approach
Paula Ungureanu
Trust machines for trustlessness: The impact of distributed trust on the configuration of blockchain ecosystems
Chengdi Fa
Platform design change and user engagement: A natural experiment on Twitter
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P-1-06
Platforms and Institutions
Chair: Evelyn Micelotta
Clarissa E. Weber, Mark D. Okraku, Indre Maurer and Johanna Mair
Dynamics of institution-based user-trust development in early stages of digital peer-to-peer platforms
Yaomin Zhang, Jonatan Pinkse and Andrew McMeekin
Managing platform legitimacy during change: Material-rhetorical practices for legitimation in digital spaces
Milad Saeedi, Leily Soleimanof and Amin Mazhari
Ethical expectations in social media governance. The case of Musk's Twitter takeover and moral legitimacy
Sara Maric and Elke Schüßler
Remixing logics, shaking up society: Analyzing platformization from a cultural institutionalist perspective
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P-1-06
Platform Innovation and Platform Work I
Chair: Stefan Haefliger
Robert Bauer and Elke Schüßler
Revisiting exchange: Digital platforms as infrastructures for reciprocal, non-reciprocal and unilateral exchange
Edoardo Meraviglia, Jacopo Manotti, Antonio Ghezzi and Davide Moiana
Platform ecosystem design in nascent markets: Evidence from the football fan token context
Francesca Bellesia, Elisa Mattarelli and Fabiola Bertolotti
Rigid algorithms, flexible work: How gig workers construct flexibility on digital platforms
Wael K. Altali
“I am an employee, but Uber is not my employer”: The complex worker-platform relationship
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U7-P-1-06
Platform Work II
Chair: Georg Reischauer
Meng Xue, Stefanie Gustafsson, Deborah N. Brewis and Sarah Glozer
Surveillance and identity in virtual and remote contexts in China
Matilde Messina, Mohammad Eslami and Joaquin Cestino
Blockchain-based solutions developing system trust in organizations: Mechanisms and actors
Ivana Radivojevic
At the crossroads of crowdwork and communities of practice: Exploring how interwoven social structures shape workers’ responses
for and against platforms
Tianqi Yu
Bridging the digital divide: The strategic potential of digital platform-powered social enterprise
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P-1-06
Platform Power and Empowerment
Chair: Stefan Haefliger
Alina Kontareva and Martin Kenney
Are there platform alternatives? Lessons from the case of Yandex building a domestic online platform ecosystem
Tom Chabosseau and Alexander Dobeson
Toward data cartels? Circulation and accumulation of intangible assets in platform capitalism
Edoardo Mollona, Alessio Diana and Martin Mölder
What people say when they talk about GAFAM? Hegemonic signifiers, wars of position and counter-hegemonic discourse
Vera Haataja
Empowerment and emancipation through platforms – Critical reflections on ‘Onlyfans’
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P-1-06
Alternative Platforms
Chair: Evelyn Micelotta
Mélissa Boudes and Donia Trabelsi
Cultivating unconventional platforms: The funding challenges of digital platform cooperatives
Marianna Fotaki and Krystallia Moysidou
Crowdfunding
for social welfare: An unfulfilled potential to democratize access to health
services
Olivier Rafelis de Broves
Studying alternative forms of platformisation: Envisioning platform co-operatives as “real utopias”