Call For Papers

Over the last few decades, digital technologies have been disrupting public and private organizations. To meet these challenges, digital “platforms” have become more and more established in all sectors. A digital platform economy is emerging and platforms are enabling a wide range of activities whether in the organization of collaborative work, crowdsourcing strategies for consumers or the deployment of new business models and industrial leadership. The reasons behind the increasing importance and success of platforms are mainly their stability, flexibility, and modularity.

However, how these platforms are structured and used raises many questions. They can sometimes result in unanticipated and undesirable consequences at the economic and social level, for example on new forms of work or the modes of algorithmic governance. Both a sign and an accelerator of digital transformations, platforms blur the traditional boundaries of organizations. They create as much as they destroy, sometimes causing unexpected resistance phenomena.

This conference awaits contributions from all management sub-disciplines (human resources, strategy, marketing, innovation, entrepreneurship, etc.). The symposium is also open to contributions from other disciplines (sociology, economics, anthropology, etc.) as long as it is not the work of specialists, which could provide a different perspective on organizational features. In all these cases, a critical perspective would be appreciated.

Research bringing forth theoretical and/or empirical insights to the following research topics is welcome (non-exhaustive list):

• Digital platforms and open innovation
• CtoC platforms and new business models
• Brand communities and brand control
• Digital platforms and reputation management
• Platforms and transformation of organizations
• Collaborative platform and the emergence of community ecosystems
• Platform leadership ecosystems and strategies
• Systemic effects of platforms (information bubble, trolls and fakes, herding behaviors, etc.)
• Algorithmic governance

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