In this paper, we argue that Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies more generally, is an important and distinctive information infrastructure that warrants substantive study by organizational scholars. The Bitcoin system is briefly described and the particular methodological challenges involved in...

This paper presents a research which aims at extending our understanding of how prices form along inter-organizational relations in Spatial Data Infrastructures in terms of behavioral economics. Our empirical focus is within the Dutch geo-information sector, and our methodological focus is to...

The blockchain technology offers a novel mode of distributed authentication, which does not depend on a central authority. We consider this novelty against established governance modes. We illustrate our argument by paying special attention to blockchain-based authentication functions in the...

This paper contributes to the debate on technological innovation in the domain of emerging economies. Using the example of M-Pesa, the well-known m-banking application developed in Kenya, we argue that technological innovation in emerging markets should be seen as arising from an assemblage of...

Contemporary world faces increasing complexity also because all societies are increasingly bound together by information infrastructures, so research on them gains explanatory power beyond infrastructures themselves. The problems addressed by this paper are, first the extension of the empirical...

Already for more than a decade there has been a discussion on how to define prices of geo-information. We pose that rather than focusing this discussion on the geo-information itself, it is important to consider the contextual conditions which contribute to price establishment and their...

While information systems are increasingly designed and implemented on a large scale within and across a variety of organizational settings around the world, information system research tends to remain focused on North American and Western European environments. However, recent contributors to...

The idea of the “network society” has highlighted how the logic of networks has shaped the contemporary world, with a specific emphasis on the role of information technology (IT). More than a decade ago Castells (1998), engaged by the UN Research Institute for Social Development Conference...

A weakness of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) studies has been the limited uptake of research outside of positivist and scientific-technological perspectives. To put it simply, a study of a SDI without considering other philosophies of knowledge will be greatly constrained to technical and...