[INENT-MIS Research Seminar] ‘Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy’
Friday, February 7th, 2025
11am – 12:30am in Paris (PR13) & on Zoom
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Speaker:
Cristina Alaimo, ESSEC Business School, France
ABSTRACT
In this seminar, I will build on a few ideas from our book “Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy”. The book traces the social history, economic motives, and technological developments behind the data revolution and associates it with current economic and organizational transformations. Data are not just economic resources. They perform key functions in contemporary institutional contexts and are linked to the diffusion of platforms and ecosystems. Today, data rules, the mechanisms regulating the production, circulation, and exchange of data, partake in defining how markets and organizations work. Data mediate new elements and capabilities essential in coordinating production and exchange so that markets and organizations can no longer be separated based on existing definitions, such as the cost of transactions and fixed inner/outer boundaries, but by looking at their ‘data rules’.