Aleksi Aaltonen is a management scholar and successful entrepreneur with thirty years of experience in digital innovation. He is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of the PhD Business Administration in MIS at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, where he studies data-based innovation and organizing. His research has been published in top academic journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Management Information Systems.
Experience
2018–present
Associate professor, Temple University
2014–2018
Assistant professor, University of Warwick
2013–2014
Visiting Fellow, The London School of Economics and Political Science
2011–2013
Postdoc and Project Researcher, Hanken School of Economics
Education
2011
The London School of Economics and Political Science, PhD
2005
University of Helsinki, Master of Social Sciences
Publications
2023
Comparing Platform Owners' Early and Late Entry into Complementary Markets, MIS Quarterly
2023
The Performative Production of Trace Data in Knowledge Work, Information Systems Research
2023
What Is Missing from Research on Data in Information Systems? Insights from the Inaugural Workshop on Data Research, Communications of the Association for Information Systems
2021
The Making of Data Commodities: Data Analytics as an Embedded Process, Journal of Management Information Systems
2015
Building Governance Capability in Online Social Production: Insights from Wikipedia, Organization Studies
2015
Cumulative Growth in User-Generated Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia, Management Science
2014
Everything Counts in Large Amounts: A Critical Realist Case Study on Data-based Production, Journal of Information Technology
2013
The Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts, MIS Quarterly