AI and Emerging Technologies Track: The Digital Firm and New Forms of Economic Organizing

The rapid growth of the digital economy, including ubiquitous internet access, smartphones, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and platforms has profoundly reshaped the way we conduct and organize business. As a result, the firms that participate heavily in the digital economy by either using a significant share of digital resources (e.g., software, algorithms, data) and/or by selling a significant share of digital products and services (e.g., platforms, software, media) have several distinctive organizational features, thus providing an interesting and important testing ground for the foundational theories of economic organization. The symposium will focus on the emerging patterns unique to digital firms for which advancing existing theories might indeed be imperative. Data Coalitions and the Strategy of Ecosystem Defense: The case of TomTom vs Google Presenter: Ron Adner; Dartmouth College What is Digital Transformation? Core tensions facing established companies on the global stage Presenter: Kathleen Eisenhardt; Stanford U. Presenter: Pinar Ozcan; Oxford U., Saïd Business School Two Faces of Interaction: Human-Machine Interactions in Adaptive Screening Systems Presenter: Thorbjoern Knudsen; Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gGMBH The Rise of the Decentralized Inverted Firm. Presenter: Aija Elina Leiponen; Cornell U.