Description

What is so special about digital technology? Is digital innovation about architecture or is it about data? We talk with the enigmatic Jannis Kallinikos – truly one of the great thinkers in our field. Our conversation covers the ambivalence of digital objects, the role of data as records in organizations, the role of books in expressing broader ideas in scholarship, and whether information systems can or should delve into metaphysics at all.

Episode Reading List

• Yoo, Y., Henfridsson, O., & Lyytinen, K. (2010). The New Organizing Logic of Digital Innovation: An Agenda for Information Systems Research. Information Systems Research, 21(4), 724-735.
• Kallinikos, J., Aaltonen, A., & Marton, A. (2013). The Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts. MIS Quarterly, 37(2), 357-370.
• Vygotsky, L. (1978). Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Harvard University Press.
• Adorno, T. (1978). Subject and Object. In A. Arato & E. Gebhardt (Eds.), The Essential Frankfurt School Reader (pp. 497-511). Bloomsbury Academic.
• Alaimo, C., & Kallinikos, J. (2022). Organizations Decentered: Data Objects, Technology and Knowledge. Organization Science, 33(1), 19-37.
• Langefors, B. (1977). Information Systems Theory. Information Systems, 2(4), 207-219.
• Stamper, R. K. (1991). The Semiotic Framework for Information Systems Research. In H.-E. Nissen, H. K. Klein, & R. Hirschheim (Eds.), Information Systems Research: Contemporary Approaches and Emergent Traditions (pp. 515-528). North Holland.
• Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford University Press.
• Kallinikos, J. (2004). Deconstructing Information Packages: Organizational and Behavioural Implications of ERP Systems. Information Technology & People, 17(1), 8-30.
• Kallinikos, J., & Hasselbladh, H. (2009). Work, Control and Computation: Rethinking the Legacy of Neo-Institutionalism. In R. E. Meyer, K. Sahlin, M. J. Ventresca, & P. Walgenbach (Eds.), Institutions and Ideology (Vol. 27, pp. 257-282). Emerald Group.
• Kallinikos, J., Hasselbladh, H., & Marton, A. (2013). Governing Social Practice: Technology and Institutional Change. Theory and Society, 42(4), 395-421.
• Ciborra, C. (2000). From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures. Oxford University Press.
• Ciborra, C. (1993). Teams, Markets and Systems: Business Innovation and Information Technology. Cambridge University Press.
• Heidegger, M. (1938/2002). The Age of the World Picture. In J. Young & K. Haynes (Eds.), Off the Beaten Track (pp. 57-85). Cambridge University Press.
• Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and Time. Harper Collins.
• Alaimo, C., & Kallinikos, J. (2024). Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy. MIT Press.
• Hirschheim, R., Klein, H. K., & Lyytinen, K. (1995). Information Systems Development and Data Modeling: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations. Cambridge University Press.
• Meyer, J. W., & Scott, W. R. (1983). Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality. Sage.
• Chandler Jr., A. D. (1969). Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise. MIT Press.
• Chandler Jr., A. D. (1977). The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Harvard University Press.
• Beniger, J. R. (1989). The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard University Press.
• Yates, J. (1989). Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• March, J. G., & Simon, H. A. (1958). Organizations. John Wiley & Sons.
• Weick, K. E. (1969). The Social Psychology of Organizing (2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill.