Die Abteilung für Organisations- und Innovationssoziologie hat im Oktober 2009 als neu eingerichteter Lehrstuhl am Institut für Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Stuttgart ihren Betrieb aufgenommen. Dieser Text gibt einen Überblick über die ersten fünfzehn Jahre unserer Forschungs- und...

Diese Studie nimmt den Einsatz von digitalen Plattformen in kommerziellen und gemeinwohlorientierten Arbeitszusammenhängen in den Blick. Ausgehend von Fallstudien zu neuen Formen der kollaborativen Herstellung und Entwicklung sowie zu kommerziellen und gemeinwohlorientierten Ausprägungen der...

Today's internet is shaped largely by privately operated platforms of various kinds. This paper asks how the various commercially operated communication, market, consumption and service platforms can be grasped as a distinct organizational form of enterprise. To this end, we make a basic...

Today’s internet is shaped largely by privately operated platforms of various kinds. This paper asks how the various commercially operated communication, market, consump-tion and service platforms can be grasped as a distinct organizational form of enterprise. To this end, we make a basic...

This discussion paper contextualizes contemporary forms of artificial intelligence (AI) within the broader relationship between technology and society, and it compiles essential insights from the sociology of technology for interdisciplinary discourse. The paper begins with a concise overview of...

This paper provides a brief overview of the concepts of collective invention, user innovation, and open innovation. All three terms describe variants of distributed innovation processes and can be linked to further ideas of socio-economic decentralization. First, the conceptual differences...