TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baumgart, Lene
A1  - Boos, Pauline
A1  - Eckstein, Bernd
T1  - Datafication and algorithmic contingency
T2  - Work organisation, labour & globalisation
N2  - In the context of persistent images of self-perpetuated technologies, we discuss the interplay of digital technologies and organisational dynamics against the backdrop of systems theory. Building on the case of an international corporation that, during an agile reorganisation, introduced an AI-based personnel management platform, we show how technical systems produce a form of algorithmic contingency that subsequently leads to the emergence of formal and informal interaction systems. Using the concept of datafication, we explain how these interactions are barriers to the self-perpetuation of data-based decision-making, making it possible to take into consideration further decision factors and complementing the output of the platform. The research was carried out within the scope of the research project ‘Organisational Implications of Digitalisation: The Development of (Post-)Bureaucratic Organisational Structures in the Context of Digital Transformation’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
KW  - digitalisation
KW  - datafication
KW  - organisation
KW  - agile
KW  - technical system
KW  - systems theory
KW  - interaction
KW  - algorithmic contingency
KW  - machine learning
KW  - platform
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63943
SN  - 1745-641X
SN  - 1745-6428
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
SP  - 61
EP  - 73
PB  - Pluto Journals
CY  - London
ER  -