Sub-theme 54: Organizing Algorithms: Sociotechnical Crossings in Space and Time
Convenors:
Maximilian Heimstädt, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
Sine Nørholm Just, Roskilde University, Denmark
Helene Friis Ratner, Aarhus University, Denmark
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P1-35
Platforms I
Chair: Helene Friis Ratner
Pauline de Becdelièvre and Sophia Galière
Stakeholders' strategies facing platform work and algorithmic management: A case study of ARPE professional elections in France
for food-delivery and VTC workers
Discussant(s): Ritu Raj and/or Rajesh Chandwani
Ritu Raj and Rajesh Chandwani
Navigating paradoxical affordances: Resistance mechanisms in platform work
Discussant(s): Vedant Kaul
Vedant Kaul
What managerial work is the algorithm doing? Conceptualising role of an algorithmic manager using grounded theory methodology
Discussant(s): Pauline de Becdelièvre and/or Sophia Galière
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P1-35
HRM
Chair: Sine Nørholm Just
Julia Waldegger and Richard Weiskopf
Write me, and I will tell you who you are: Algorithmic governmentality in predictive hiring
Discussant(s): Sonja Koehne and/or Sascha Friesike
Sonja Koehne and Sascha Friesike
Unraveling data analytics in human resource management: A paradox perspective
Discussant(s): Felix Diefenhardt
Felix Diefenhardt
Consider the dashboard: How HR data and algorithms come to matter through visual interfaces
Discussant(s): Julia Waldegger and/or Richard Weiskopf
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P1-35
Platforms II
Chair: Maximilian Heimstädt
Adarsh Kumar
Contrasting management and employment relations strategies of Uber in India and Britain
Discussant(s): Lilo Meier
Lilo Meier
Assembling an alternative platform: A sociomaterial analysis of the co-constitution of algorithmic control
Discussant(s): Attila Bruni and/or Francesco Bonifacio
Attila Bruni and Francesco Bonifacio
Programmed ambiguity: Airbnb, Glovo, and the articulation of power and control
Discussant(s): Adarsh Kumar
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P1-35
Public Sector
Chair: Sine Nørholm Just
Karen Boll
Pushing public sector organizations onto the AI race
Discussant(s): Jakob Laage-Thomsen
Jakob Laage-Thomsen
AI in potentia: Danish AI welfare projects between unlimited potentiality and never quite cancelled projects
Discussant(s): Maximilian Heimstädt and/or Simon Egbert
Maximilian Heimstädt and Simon Egbert
Actionable predictions: How designers of algorithmic systems calibrate criminal futures
Discussant(s): Karen Boll
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P1-35
Collective Attitudes and Ideas
Chair: Maximilian Heimstädt
Francesco Gualdi and Lena Sophia Popp
Workers' attitudes towards algorithmic management systems: A socio-technical journey from cognitive complacency to algorithm
aversion
Discussant(s): Aleksander Groth, Leonhard Dobusch and/or Monica Nadegger
Aleksander Groth, Leonhard Dobusch and Monica Nadegger
How to ignite a firestorm: Following Communicative Chain Reactions on Reddit
Discussant(s): Francesco Gualdi and/or Lena Sophia Popp
Frank den Hond, Afshin Mehrpouya and Christine Moser
Explainability in AI: Navigating accountability and responsibility in opening the black box of AI
Discussant(s): Antonio La Sala, Laura Riolli and/or Ryan Fuller
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P1-35
Decision-Making
Chair: Helene Friis Ratner
Rikke Bach Kristensen
Leadership and digitalization: A theoretical approach to the leadership challenges which emerge from digitalization
Discussant(s): Chiara Focacci, François Pichault and/or Giseline Rondeaux
Giseline Rondeaux, François Pichault and Chiara Focacci
Managers in the era of digital transformation: Navigating the dual realities of time
Discussant(s): Carl Stefan Roth-Kirkegaard and/or Alf Rehn
Carl Stefan Roth-Kirkegaard and Alf Rehn
On executives and AI unemployment
Discussant(s): Rikke Bach Kristensen
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P1-35
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Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P1-35
Theorizing Algorithmic Organizing
Chair: Maximilian Heimstädt
Anna Stöber, Dennis Schoeneborn and Sine Nørholm Just
Exploring the Boundaries of What Can Be Considered Organizational: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) Between Decided
Order and Algorithmic Order
Discussant(s): Kaveh Mohajeri, Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte and/or Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi
Kaveh Mohajeri, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi and Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte
The future of power work in an algorithmic world
Discussant(s): Anna Stöber, Dennis Schoeneborn and/or Sine Nørholm Just
Antonio La Sala, Laura Riolli and Ryan Fuller
The opacity of the bright light: Organizational decision-making at the dawn of the algorithmic age. Toward an eschatological
algocracy?
Discussant(s): Frank den Hond, Afshin Mehrpouya and/or Christine Moser