Paper Number
2412
Paper Type
Completed
Description
In this paper, we empirically investigate the emergence of an industrial data ecosystem in the heavy-asset oil and gas industry in Norway, as a business-to-business data platform gets introduced. Conceptually, we build on ecosystem complementarities –physical assets, digital technologies, data – which yield larger value when combined, rather than when used separately by actors. Our specific focus lies in exploring the role of complementarities in the emergence of data ecosystems. Our findings offer two contributions. First, we show how industrial data ecosystems emerge as actor and data complementarities restructure existing actor relations. Second, we conceptualize data hierarchies, as specific types of data complementarities, which correspond to the hierarchical ordering of physical assets in the oil and gas heavy-asset industry.
Recommended Citation
Svendsrud, Daniel Stedjan and Paparova, Dragana, "Data Hierarchies: The Emergence of an Industrial Data Ecosystem" (2023). ICIS 2023 Proceedings. 14.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2023/diginnoventren/diginnoventren/14
Data Hierarchies: The Emergence of an Industrial Data Ecosystem
In this paper, we empirically investigate the emergence of an industrial data ecosystem in the heavy-asset oil and gas industry in Norway, as a business-to-business data platform gets introduced. Conceptually, we build on ecosystem complementarities –physical assets, digital technologies, data – which yield larger value when combined, rather than when used separately by actors. Our specific focus lies in exploring the role of complementarities in the emergence of data ecosystems. Our findings offer two contributions. First, we show how industrial data ecosystems emerge as actor and data complementarities restructure existing actor relations. Second, we conceptualize data hierarchies, as specific types of data complementarities, which correspond to the hierarchical ordering of physical assets in the oil and gas heavy-asset industry.
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