My working papers can be found in SSRN.
Mindel, V., Aaltonen, A., Rai, A., Mathiassen, L., & Jabr, W. (2024). Timely quality problem resolution in peer-production systems: The impact of bots, policy citations, and contributor experience. Information Systems Research, Articles in Advance. 10.1287/isre.2020.0485
Aaltonen, A. (2024). All data are wrong, but some are useful. Medium, January 18, 2024. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2024). NYT vs OpenAI and Microsoft: Three scenarios with a big impact on our digital environment. Medium, January 3, 2024. full text
Zhao, Z., & Aaltonen, A. (2023). Mastering efficiency: Leveraging multihoming boundary resources for mobile app development. ICIS 2023 Proceedings, 9. full text
Shi, R., Aaltonen, A., Henfridsson, O., & Gopal, R. (2023). Comparing platform owners' early and late entry into complementary markets. MIS Quarterly, 47(4), 1727-1744. 10.25300/MISQ/2023/17413
Aaltonen, A., Alaimo, C., Parmiggiani, E., Stelmaszak, M., Jarvenpaa, S. L., Kallinikos, J., & Monteiro, E. (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, 53, 475–490. 10.17705/1CAIS.05320
Aaltonen, A., & Stelmaszak, M. (2023). The performative production of trace data in knowledge work. Information Systems Research, 35(3), 1448–1462. 10.1287/isre.2019.0357
Aaltonen, A. (2023). Algorithms, humans, and the duality of data – A futile attempt to define IS phenomena. Medium, August 30, 2023. full text
Zhao, Z., & Aaltonen, A. (2023). Kill two birds with one stone: Using multihoming boundary resources in mobile app development. AMCIS 2023 Proceedings, 4. Panama City, Panama. August 10–12, 2023. full text
Alaimo, C., & Aaltonen, A. (2023). Strategizing with data: Data-based innovations and complementaries. In: Cennamo, C., Dagnino, G. & Zhu, F. (eds.). Research Handbook of Digital Strategy, pp. 162–178. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Vorotyntseva, Y., Aaltonen, A., Kumar, S., & Pavlou, P. (2022). Can platform competition drive ratings inflation? The impact of vertical spillover effects. ICIS 2022 Proceedings, 5. Copenhagen, DK. December 9–14, 2022. full text
Vorotyntseva, Y., Aaltonen, A., Kumar, S., & Pavlou, P. (2022). Can platform competition drive ratings inflation? The impact of vertical spillover effects. ECIS 2022 Research Papers, 83. Timisoara, RO. June 22–24, 2022. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2022). Social media was consuming me — but I took back control! Medium, January 26, 2022. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2022). How to count the review rounds in a peer-review process? Medium, January 10, 2022. full text
Masiero, S., & Aaltonen, A. (2021). Gender bias in management information systems. Medium, December 8, 2021. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2021). There is no self-plagiarism. Medium, October 4, 2021. full text
Aaltonen, A., Alaimo, C., & Kallinikos, J. (2021). The making of data commodities: Data analytics as an embedded process. Journal of Management Information Systems, 38(2), 401–429. 10.1080/07421222.2021.1912928
Aaltonen, A. (2021). Academia as competition. Medium, May 24, 2021. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2021). I deleted my Academia.edu account and you should too. Medium, April 2, 2021. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2021). Solutions that create problems. Medium, March 13, 2021. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2021). A simple vocabulary of data science concepts. Medium, February 5, 2021. full text
Masiero, S., & Aaltonen, A. (2021). Gender bias in information systems research: A literature review. SSRN, February 21, 2021. full text
Aaltonen, A., & Penttinen, E. (2021). What makes data possible? A sociotechnical view on structured data innovations. 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Hawaii, HI. January 4–8, 2021. full text
Stelmaszak, M., & Aaltonen, A. (2020). Working in the analytical cage: The decline of transformative agency in the age of datification. The Future of Digital Work: The Challenge of Inequality, IFIP WG 8.2, 9.1, 9.4 Joint Working Conference. Hyderabad, India. December 10–11, 2020.
Aaltonen, A. (2020). Paying for peer reviews is a bad idea. Medium, November 24, 2020. full text
Alaimo, C., Kallinikos, J., & Aaltonen, A. (2020). Data and value. In: Nambisan, S., Lyytinen K. & Yoo, Y. (eds.). Handbook of Digital Innovation, pp. 162–178. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Aaltonen, A., & Wattal, S. (2020). Rejecting and retaining new contributors in open knowledge collaboration: A natural experiment in Stack Overflow Q&A service. 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Marrakech, Morocco. June 15–17, 2020. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2020). Donald Trump is smarter than you think. Medium, April 25, 2020. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2020). Virus outbreak/zombie movies to watch. Medium, April 7, 2020. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2020). The right time to take action? Medium, March 26, 2020. full text
Stelmaszak, M., & Aaltonen, A. (2020). The more you measure them, the more they will game you. Medium, January 10, 2020. full text
Kang, C., Aaltonen, A., & Henfridsson, O. (2019). The impact of platform entry strategies on the quality of complements in multihoming. 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Munich, Germany. 15-18 December 2019. full text
Shi, M., Aaltonen, A., & Henfridsson, O. (2019). Platform owner’s entry to the complementary market by taking-over complements: Evidence from Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem. 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). Xi'an, China 10-12 July 2019. full text
Stelmaszak, M., & Aaltonen, A. (2018). Toward a bidirectional view of causality in big data analytics: The case of learning analytics. Academy of Management Global Proceedings, Surrey(2018). full text
Stelmaszak, M., & Aaltonen, A. (2018). Closing the loop of big data analytics: The case of learning analytics. 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). full text
Aaltonen, A. (2018). Research paper as academic storytelling. Medium, 27 April 2018. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2016). Brexit is not a disaster for UK startups. Medium, 19 July 2016. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2016). Blockchain could fix even the EU. Medium, 15 July 2016. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2016). Factors shaping entrepreneurial ecosystems and the rise of entrepreneurship: A view from top management journals. Working paper, 29 May 2016. Demos Helsinki. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2016). Academia should learn from software development. Medium, 7 April 2016. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2016). Can Apple resist the stupidity of the markets? Medium, 26 January 2016. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2016). Wikipedia at 15: In decline but condition isn’t terminal – So what may the future hold? The Conversation, 16 January 2016. full text
Aaltonen, A., & Seiler, S. (2016). Cumulative growth in user-generated content production: Evidence from Wikipedia. Management Science, 62(7), 2054-2069. 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2253
Aaltonen, A. (2015). Who broke Twitter? Medium, 16 November 2015. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2015). How to manage your research data? Medium, 10 October 2015. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2015). Making up digital advertising audiences: The new form of contracting human attention. 31st European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium. Athens, Greece 2–4 July 2015. full text
Aaltonen, A., & Lanzara, G. F. (2015). Building governance capability in online social production: Insights from Wikipedia. Organization Studies, 36(12), 1649-1673. 10.1177/0170840615584459
Charoenpanich, A., & Aaltonen, A. (2015). (How) does data-based music discovery work? Association for Information Systems (AIS), 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Münster, Germany 27–29 May 2015. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2014). BT buying EE shows that a more radical approach to telcoms regulation is needed. The Conversation, 19 December 2014. full text
Aaltonen, A., & Seiler, S. (2014). Wikipedia: The value of open content production. CentrePiece, 19(2), 11–13. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2014). Android One won't make Google big bucks, so why bother with cheap smartphones? The Conversation, 24 September 2014. full text
Aaltonen, A., & Tempini, N. (2014). Everything counts in large amounts: A critical realist case study on data-based production. Journal of Information Technology, 29(1), 97–110. 10.1057/jit.2013.29
Kallinikos, J., Aaltonen, A., & Marton, A. (2013). The ambivalent ontology of digital artifacts. MIS Quarterly, 37(2), 357–370. 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.2.02
Aaltonen, A., & Kallinikos, J. (2013). Coordination and learning in Wikipedia: Revisiting the dynamics of exploitation and exploration. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 37, 161–192. 10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0000037010
Aaltonen, A. (2013). A series of monthly blog posts about startup entrepreneurship (in Finnish) on the website of Tekniikka & Talous magazine. Tekniikka & Talous website.
Aaltonen, A., & Karjalainen, S. (2013). Toward quietly smart phones. The Huffington Post, 3 June 2013. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2013). The beauty and perils of metrics. Mercury Magazine, 2(3), 44–47. full text
Aaltonen, A., & Lanzara, G. F. (2011). Governing social production in the internet: The case of Wikipedia. Association for Information Systems (AIS), 19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Helsinki, Finland 9–11 June 2011. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2011). Manufacturing the digital advertising audience. PhD thesis. The London School of Economics and Political Science. full text
Kallinikos, J., Aaltonen, A., & Marton, A. (2010). A theory of digital objects. First Monday, 15(6–7). full text
Aaltonen, A. (2008). Organizing control in real-time environment: The use of real-time communications in an educational start-up. In: S. Vidolov, P. O'Scolai, R. G. L. Raja•o, I. Faik and A. Higgins, eds. 2008. Heterogeneities, Multiplicities and Complexities: Towards Subtler Understandings of Links Between Technology, Organisation and Society. CITO Proceedings Series, 1. University College Dublin.
Aaltonen, A. (2006). Muotoilun avulla kohti ratkaisukeskeistä rakennustuoteliiketoimintaa. [Using Industrial Design for Solution-driven Construction Product Business]. In: U.-M. Mutanen, J. Virkkunen and T. Keinonen, eds. 2006. Muotoiluosaamisen kehittäminen teknologiayrityksissä. Helsinki: Teknologiateollisuus.
Aaltonen, A. (2006). Muotoilu apuna Rautaruukin rakennustuoteliiketoiminnan uudistuksessa. [Fostering Innovation in Rautaruukki's Construction Product Business by Industrial Design]. In: M. Lindström, M. Nyberg and P. Ylä-Anttila, 2006. Ei vain muodon vuoksi – muotoilu on kilpailuetu., The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy publication B220. Helsinki.
Aaltonen, A. (2006). Rakennushanke moniaineksisena prosessina: Esimerkkinä Ilmatieteen laitoksen ja Merentutkimuslaitoksen yhteisen toimitalon syntyaiheet. [The Shaping of a Construction Project: The Case of the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Finnish Institute of Marine Research Building]. Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu, 2006(2), 24–45. full text
Aaltonen, A. (2005). Where do the construction projects come from? The case of the Kumpula project. Master's thesis. University of Helsinki. full text
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Aleksi Aaltonen is a management information systems scholar and a successful entrepreneur with thirty years of experience in digital innovation. He is currently an Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he studies data and data-based innovation and organizing, and serves as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Journal of Information Technology. Aleksi holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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I maintain the Data Studies Bibliography together with Marta Stelmaszak.
I write about the production of academic knowledge in my Medium blog and about data in the Data Studies Bibliography blog. Previously, I have also contributed to The Conversation.