Distributed seeing: Algorithms and the reconfiguration of the workplace, a case of 'automated' trading

Willems, Thijs; Hafermalz, Ella

doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100376

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“…And, regarding increasingly digital workplaces, we need to extend notions of embodiment to other, non-human bodies too (Introna, 2021). For instance, how do we, in our work or learning processes, come embodied in an inter-corporeal sense with phenomena such as robots (Sergeeva et al, 2020) or algorithms (Willems and Hafermalz, 2021)?…”

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Experiencing communality in collective activity: Four ways to generate sameness in differences

Louise Cunliffe,

de Vaujany,

Hafermalz

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Management Learning

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In this introductory article of the special issue ‘Experiencing communality and togetherness at work: Phenomenologies of a shared existence’, we suggest exploring the issue of sameness and differences at stake in collective activity. In a post-pandemic world of work, a weak sense of co-presence is fostered by hyper-individualization, fragmentation, liquidity, geo-political tensions and a widespread distrust of social institutions. In this context, communality is less than ever a given. In this context, we ask the following question: How can we experience communality together in collective activity while acknowledging our often profound differences? This essay and special issue address this question by investigating how sameness can be experienced in and through difference. Specifically, we do so by focusing on commons and the process of communalization as it has been explored in Management and Organization Studies. We propose a typology in which we specify four perspectives shedding light on four experiences of communality in collective activity through and beyond differences. This typology offers a lens to present the articles selected for this special issue, as well as generating implications for research and education in Management and Organization Studies.

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Experiencing communality in collective activity: Four ways to generate sameness in differences

Louise Cunliffe,

de Vaujany,

Hafermalz

et al. 2024

Management Learning

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“…Computer algorithms have been found to reconfigure production and human resource practices in organisations (Meijerink & Bondarouk, 2021; Pachidi et al, 2021; Willems & Hafermalz, 2021). In the specific area of platform work, one of the core research themes lies in how the labour process has been transformed through algorithmic management (Duggan et al, 2020; Gandini, 2019; Kellogg et al, 2020; Purcell & Brook, 2020).…”

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Producing speed on demand: Reconfiguration of space and time in food delivery platform work

Zheng

2022

Information Systems Journal

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Existing IS research on platform work has narrowly focused on the managerial operations of algorithmic management or its business implications. Limited research has paid attention to the scalar effects and societal implications of platform work. In this study, we address the phenomenon of ‘speed’ in the on‐demand economy through a qualitative study of Chinese food delivery workers. We construct a performative view of spatiotemporality to illustrate the reconfiguration of multiple spatiotemporal orders. The paper thus broadens the theorisation of time and space in IS research and provides a more nuanced and critical understanding of platform work against the backdrop of structural inequality in platform capitalism.

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“…The paper by Willems and Hafermalz (2021) also looks directly at the effects of digitalisation in an online betting company, focusing on the introduction of algorithms into an automated trading platform involving the use of historical data on sporting events to calculate the odds for specific games. They suggest approaches to the introduction of algorithms (or other technologies) tend to divide between the idea that human work would be automated, involving it being deskilled or replaced, or human work would be augmented, with algorithms being complementary to and distinct from human capabilities.…”

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“…In the Belgian context of newly adopted flexwork practices, involving shared offices and homebased teleworking, which individualized work relationships, Ajzen and Taskin show how their participants found ways to 'respatialize' their collective identities, re-appropriating spacesboth material and virtualand with this re-creating collective arenas for socialization, collaborative work and friendship. Willems and Hafermalz (2021) also problematize the interaction between virtual and material dimensions of NWW. Although their paper shows how digital technologies are intimately involved in reconfiguring work and markets, trading cannot be reduced to the disembodied work of computers.…”

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New ways of working (NWW): Workplace transformation in the digital age

Aroles

Ćećez-Kecmanović

Dale

et al. 2021

Information and Organization

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Distributed seeing: Algorithms and the reconfiguration of the workplace, a case of 'automated' trading

Cited by 17 publications

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Experiencing communality in collective activity: Four ways to generate sameness in differences

Experiencing communality in collective activity: Four ways to generate sameness in differences

Producing speed on demand: Reconfiguration of space and time in food delivery platform work

New ways of working (NWW): Workplace transformation in the digital age

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