[AISWorld] ECIS workshop on Regulation, Governance and Digital Responsibility: Research Frontiers

[Juho Lindman]

Ancillary Meeting
Research Workshop at ECIS 2024 Sunday 16th June (9:00-13:00, Room: TBA)

REGULATION, GOVERNANCE AND DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY: RESEARCH FRONTIERS

Our experiences in recent years reveal that the application of powerful digital technologies raises important ethical, legal, and moral challenges for organizations and society as a whole. New digital technologies such as AI raise critical questions related to the roles of companies in mitigating harm and risks from such technologies and their responsibilities in ensuring the ethical, fair, and just development, application, and use of digital technologies and data. Recently, various regulations have been put forth and are now being considered by corporations and organizations as they contemplate their “digital impact footprint”.

Research related to these (and other) issues has revolved around the requirements and implications of regulations for digital technologies (e.g., Gozman et al., 2021) as well as the concept of corporate digital responsibility (CDR) (e.g., Wirtz et al., 2022; Herden et al., 2021; Mueller, 2022).

This workshop delineates the contours of a broad research agenda on regulation and corporate digital responsibility. In doing this, we will identify and discuss promising theoretical perspectives and concepts that could inform on the underlying theoretical and managerial issues. Going further, we will strive to lay out a research agenda and questions that can advance the nascent literature on regulation and digital responsiblity in IS.

The workshop is based on generating deep discussions on-site – no paper submissions are required from the participants.

The following talks will inform the workshop deliberations.
1. Elizabeth Davidson (Professor, University of Hawai’i at Manoa): Regulation and Data
2. Sirkka Jarvenpaa (Professor, University of Texas at Austin): Data Governance
3. Ben Eaton (Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School): Platform / Digital Infrastructure and Architecting for Regulation
4. Juho Lindman (Professor, University of Gothenburg): Big Tech’s Power, Political Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulation
5. Daniel Schnurr (Professor, University of Regensburg): Regulation of Data-driven Market Power in the Digital Economy
Further presentations may be added.

Workshop organizer email details
1. Sirkka Jarvenpaa (sirkka.jarvenpaa at mccombs.utexas.edu)
2. Juho Lindman (juho.lindman at ait.gu.se)
3. Daniel Schnurr (daniel.schnurr at ur.de)

Participants can register for the workshop through the ECIS 2024 registration system. https://ecis2024.eu/registration/

Information about ECIS workshops. https://ecis2024.eu/workshops/