Building Digital Infrastructures: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Contextual Triggers

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dc.contributor.authorKoutsikouri, Dina
dc.contributor.authorLindgren, Rikard
dc.contributor.authorHenfridsson, Ola
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-29T01:46:57Z
dc.date.available2016-12-29T01:46:57Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-04
dc.description.abstractPast IS research suggests it is challenging to build digital infrastructures and then make sure they grow. While more users, innovative services, and new partners spur infrastructure evolution, we know little of the specific contextual triggers that set these generative mechanisms in motion. To this end, we conduct a case study of a digitalized public transport infrastructure to identify such triggers and explore their impact on its evolution. Our study contributes to the extant literature on digital infrastructure evolution in two distinct ways. First, we analyze, define, and propose three contextual triggers that improve our understanding of the generative mechanisms behind infrastructure development and growth. Second, we rely on this conceptual basis to sketch out the initial contours of a novel evolutionary theory of digital infrastructure triggers. \
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2017.575
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-0-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/41737
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectContextual triggers
dc.subjectcase study
dc.subjectdigital infrastructure
dc.subjectgenerative mechanisms
dc.subjectinformation infrastructure
dc.titleBuilding Digital Infrastructures: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Contextual Triggers
dc.typeConference Paper
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