Research Talk Prof. Dr. Aleksi Aaltonen - "Data Design – A Constitutive Rules Perspective"

Abstract:

Management research and practice commonly assume that data are assets that represent facts about an organization or its environment. Yet, organizational data do not come into existence by themselves. Information systems research has addressed the creation of data mainly as a problem of conceptual modeling, while how novel data are created in practice remains undertheorized. We call this data design and articulate it as a sociotechnical process through which organizations

configure data-producing arrangements that allow them to produce data points about events, entities, and people. We then propose that the impact of data design on organizational data can be analyzed in terms of constitutive rules. Constitutive rules are conceptual statements that describe how cultural conventions, institutional orders, and technical constraints embedded in a dataproducing arrangement make it possible to turn an aspect of an organization or its environment into data. Using a case vignette of a gender identity data project at a large U.S. university, we illustrate how analyzing the reconfiguration of a data-producing arrangement in terms of constitutive rules helps specify the ways in which data mediate organizations and their actions. We further argue that data design can amount to innovation if it enables the production of data that are uniquely valuable to an organization.

Bio:

Aleksi is an Associate Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he studies data and data-based innovation and organizing. His research has been published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Management Information Systems. He also serves as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Information Technology, the President of SIG Data, and as a member of the Research Advisory Committee at Numeris. He also maintains the Data Studies Bibliography.

You can read more about him on his website:https://aleksi.info and connect with him on LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksiaaltonen

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