Faculty habilitation
Group : Learning and Optimization
Decoding the platform society: Organizations, markets and networks in the digital economy
Starts on 12/02/2019
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Laboratory : Sciences Po Paris, 9 rue de la chaise, salle 931
Defended on 11/12/2019, committee :
M. Gilles Bastin, Professeur des universités, IEP de Grenoble (rapporteur)
M. Rodolphe Durand, Professeur, HEC Paris
M. Emmanuel Lazega, Professeur des universités, IEP de Paris (garant et rapporteur)
Mme Béatrice Milard, Professeure des universités, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès (rapporteure)
M. José Luís Molina González, Professeur, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
M. Tom A.B. Snijders, Professeur, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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Abstract :
The original manuscript conceptualizes the recent rise of digital platforms along three main dimensions: their nature of coordination devices fueled by data, the ensuing transformations of labor, and the accompanying promises of societal innovation. The overall ambition is to unpack the coordination role of the platform and where it stands in the horizon of the classical firm – market duality. It is also to precisely understand how it uses data to do so, where it drives labor, and how it accommodates socially innovative projects. I extend this analysis to show continuity between today’s society dominated by platforms and the “organizational society”, claiming that platforms are organized structures that distribute resources, produce asymmetries of wealth and power, and push social innovation to the periphery of the system. I discuss the policy implications of these tendencies and propose avenues for follow-up research.
