How can we study the effects of algorithms and digital technologies over organisations?
Algorithms and other digital technologies are becoming widespread features of contemporary organizing, bearing profound consequences that we do not yet fully understand. This has led scholars to call for the urgent development of theory, methods and case studies that enable a better understanding of how algorithms can alter work and organizations. In this Sub-Theme we invite scholars to consider how digital artifacts (including—but not exclusively—artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies) emerge and evolve as they travel across sites and over time with fundamental consequences for practitioners, practices, institutions and organisations.
Questions we ask include:
• How do digital technologies/algorithms emerge and evolve as they travel across space and over time? With what consequences for people, practices and organizations?
• How do the biographies of digital technologies shape the production and consumption of knowledge?
• How do digital technologies/algorithms shape organizational processes, practices and routines?
• How do they reconfigure decision making processes and affect power dynamics?
• How do they affect creative and generative organizational processes?
• How do digital technologies/algorithms relate to institutions and institutional change?
• How do they transform occupational knowledge, tasks, skills, cultures and expertise?
• Who is responsible/accountable for digital tech/algorithm’s behaviour? How/can AI systems be made ethical?
Please submit your short paper by January 9th 2024
We look forward to seeing you in Milan!
Luciana D’Adderio, Vern Glaser, and Marleen Huysman (with the kind assistance of Irene Vega-Ramon)
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Luciana D'Adderio
Research Professor
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
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