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[ 986CABUCB4K19 ] KS CB4: Understanding the digital economy
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| Es ist eine neuere Version 2025W dieser LV im Curriculum Master's programme Leadership and Innovation in Organizations 2025W vorhanden. |
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Education level |
Study areas |
Responsible person |
Hours per week |
Coordinating university |
| 3 ECTS |
M1 - Master's programme 1. year |
Business Administration |
Elke Schüßler |
2 hpw |
Johannes Kepler University Linz |
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| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
KS BC1: Induction-team development UND KS BC2: Foundations of management UND KS BC3: Foundational readings and academic writing
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| Original study plan |
Master's programme Leading Innovative Organizations 2020W |
| Objectives |
Students are familiar with the principles underlying the platform economy. They understand the economic and societal relevance of crowd/platform-based organizing with a particular emphasis on the dynamic interplay between
- for-profit and not-for profit host organizations that strategically engage in platform management and crowd-based organizing
- platform architectures as digital infrastructure that draws on technologies for ubiquitous connectedness, archiving & profiling, automated content generation, real-time detection of deviation from rules/pattern (i.e. algorithmic governance), authentication/verification of documents (e.g. distributed ledger) and generative manufacturing.
- crowds as exceedingly large, more or less heterogeneous social bodies that possess varying degrees of actorhood, and
- socio-economic environments encompassing users/customers, suppliers, competitors, media and political/regulatory bodies
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- Explaining platforms: The merits and limits of markets, bureaucracies and communities as explanatory principles for platforms and crowds
- Fundamental organization theory required for explaining platforms (see above)
- Strategies for managing platforms
- Societal antecedents and effects of crowd-based organizing (e.g. digital labor and click work, surveillance capitalism etc.)
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Pre-readings (10%), homework (40%), exam(s) (40%), class participation (10%)
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| Methods |
Lecture, discussion
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| Language |
English |
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A set of academic articles from A and A+ journals reflecting current developments in platform/crowd research
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| Changing subject? |
No |
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| On-site course |
| Maximum number of participants |
40 |
| Assignment procedure |
Direct assignment |
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