Research as a Conversation - Guest Olivia Benfeldt

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by visiting researcher Olivia Benfeldt, Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School. Olivia is based at the Department of Digitalization, where her research focuses on how data is fundamentally reshaping business and society. Her work explores data governance as practice to examine frictions, dependencies, and possibilities in everyday organizational life. Olivia is particularly interested in data governance as a collective action problem, and how sociopolitical issues in situated work enable and constrain what can be done with data—and by whom. She currently leads the newly established Data Studies research theme at CBS and is involved in several projects investigating the making of large-scale governance. Her work has been published in journals such as Information Systems Frontiers and the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, as well as presented at international conferences including ECIS and SCIS.In this episode, we unironically discuss research as a conversation. Who are we talking to when we write a paper? What does having a community mean? We explore these ideas and more with the theme of data governance as an undercurrent. References:Benfeldt, O., Persson, J. S., & Madsen, S. (2020). Data governance as a collective action problem. Information Systems Frontiers, 22, 299-313.Benfeldt, O., Schroder, A., Zambach, S., Greve, M., Singh, R., & Gierlich-Joas, M. FROM CONTEXT TO AESTHETIC: A NORDIC PERSPECTIVE ON DATA STUDIES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS. Forthcoming in SCIS, 2025. PARMIGGIANI, E., & GRISOT, M. (2020). Data curation as governance practice. Scandinavian Journal ofInformation Systems, 31(1). https://aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol32/iss1/1 Benfeldt, O., Zambach, S., Nyman, S., & Gierlich-Joas, M. (2024). Data Diplomacy as Governance Practice. ECIS.Links:https://irisscis.com/