The Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts

By Jannis Kallinikos, Aleksi Aaltonen, Attila Márton. MIS Q., 2013

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science

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New games, new rules: big data and the changing context of strategy (2015, background): “They are part and parcel of a much wider shift that makes everydayness qua data imprints an intrinsic component of organizational and institutional life (Kallinikos, 2006, 2009; Yoo, 2010; Kallinikos et al., 2013), and also a primary target for a range of commercialization strategies.”
Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions (2015, background): “Digital artifacts have been described as having an ambivalent ontology (Kallinikos et al. 2013), being intentionally incomplete and perpetually in the making (Garud et al. 2008; Zittrain 2008) and having a number of attributes depicted in the literature in similar yet distinctive ways (Faulkner and…”
A Systematic Review of the Literature on Digital Transformation: Insights and Implications for Strategy and Organizational Change (2020, background): “Due to the specific nature of digital technologies (Kallinikos et al., 2013), particularly the generativity they induce inside and beyond organizations (Yoo et al., 2012), we contend that even episodic phases of DT trigger continuous changes.”
Transparent to whom? No algorithmic accountability without a critical audience (2018, background): “…exist (Betancourt, 2017; Faulkner & Runde, 2013; Knoespe & Zhu, 2008; Leonardi, 2010; Suchman, 2007), but the intimate connection between immaterial digital objects and their material bearers cannot be overlooked when considering a model ’ s functionality (Kallinikos, Aaltonen & Marton, 2013).”
The Role of Dynamic Capabilities in Responding to Digital Disruption: A Factor-Based Study of the Newspaper Industry (2015, background): “Digital technologies, innovations [70, 133], and transformation [15], however, are fundamentally transforming business processes, products, services, and relationships [16].”
Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Unique characteristics of digital artifacts or components—they are reprogrammable, re-combinable, and open (Yoo et al., 2010; Zittrain, 2008)—dress them with “ambivalent ontologies” (Kallinikos et al., 2013).”
Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks (2016, background): “…of how digital technologies can in ﬂ uence product innovation and its processes requires us to adopt a richer conceptualization of digital technologies and their role in innovation networks (Yoo et al ., 2010; Tilson et al ., 2010; Kallinikos et al ., 2013; Fichman et al ., 2014; Nambisan, 2013).”
The influence of a digital strategy on the digitalization of new ventures: The mediating effect of digital capabilities and a digital culture (2021, background): “Digital products/services can include any kind of digital element, media usage, or application as well as digital components that provide the product or ser-vice’s main functionality (Kallinikos et al., 2013; Nambisan, 2017).”
The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes (2019, background): “From such a perspective, it then becomes imperative that studies incorporate characteristics innate to digital technologies as key explanatory factors in theorizing on the nature and process of innovation and entrepreneurship (Kallinikos et al., 2013; Nambisan, 2017; Yoo et al., 2010).”
The digital platform: a research agenda (2018, background): “Digital technologies imply homogenisation of data, editability, reprogrammability, distributedness and self-referentiality (Yoo et al., 2010; Kallinikos et al., 2013).”
Managing technological change in the digital age: the role of architectural frames (2014, background): “First, products become programmable as they embed digital technology and design of new functionality can therefore be integrated at any time, even after production (Zittrain, 2006; Yoo et al., 2010; Kallinikos et al., 2013).”
Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector (2018, background): “Relationality is based on the assumption that digital technologies are to some degree distinct from and responsive to other actors (Orton & Weick, 1990), which makes them interactive (Kallinikos et al., 2013).”
Platform Ecosystems: How Developers Invert the Firm (2017, neutral): “Kallinikos et al. (2013) adopt the term “digital artifact” and characterize digital objects as open, reprogrammable, and accessible by other digital objects.”