Exploring the boundaries and processes of digital platforms for knowledge work: A review of information systems research

This paper offers a paradigmatic analysis of digital application marketplaces for advancing information systems research on digital platforms and ecosystems. We refer to the notion of digital application marketplace, colloquially called ‘appstores,’ as a platform component that offers a venue for exchanging applications between developers and end users belonging to a single or multiple ecosystems. Such marketplaces exhibit diversity in features and assumptions, and we propose that examining this diversity, and its ideal types, will help us to further understand the relationship between application marketplaces, platforms, and platform ecosystems. To this end, we generate a typology that distinguishes four kinds of digital application marketplaces: closed, censored, focused, and open marketplaces. The paper also offers implications for actors wishing to make informed decisions about their relationship to a particular digital application marketplace.

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Collaborative ethnography for information systems research Studying knowledge work practices and designing supportive information systems

Australasian Journal of Information Systems ◽

10.3127/ajis.v17i2.701 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ronald Maier ◽

Stefan Thalmann

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Knowledge Work ◽

Work Practices ◽

Systems Research ◽

Information Systems Research ◽

Collaborative Ethnography

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An Insight into the Debates Surrounding the Changing Nature, Scope and Focus of Information Systems Research

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2408809 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Ibrahim Osman Adam

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Systems Research ◽

Information Systems Research ◽

Insight Into

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A Bridge Too Far?

10.1093/oso/9780198733249.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Charlotte P. Lee ◽

Kjeld Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Science And Technology Studies ◽

Large Scale ◽

Cooperative Work ◽

Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽

Practical Action ◽

Systems Research ◽

Information Infrastructures ◽

Information Systems Research ◽

Critical Investigation

The study of computing infrastructures has grown significantly due to the rapid proliferation and ubiquity of large-scale IT-based installations. At the same time, recognition has also grown of the usefulness of such studies as a means for understanding computing infrastructures as material complements of practical action. Subsequently the concept of “infrastructure” (or “information infrastructures,” “cyberinfrastructures,” and “infrastructuring”) has gained increasing importance in the area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) as well as in neighboring areas such as Information Systems research (IS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS). However, as such studies have unfolded, the very concept of “infrastructure” is being applied in different discourses, for different purposes, in myriad different senses. Consequently, the concept of “infrastructure” has become increasingly muddled and needs clarification. The chapter presents a critical investigation of the vicissitudes of the concept of “infrastructure” over the last 35 years.

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