My working papers can be found in SSRN.
Shi, R., Aaltonen, A., Henfridsson, O. and Gopal, R. Forthcoming. Comparing platform owners' early and late entry into complementary markets. MIS Quarterly.
Aaltonen, A., Alaimo, C., Parmiggiani, E., Stelmaszak, M., Jarvenpaa, S. L., Kallinikos, J. and Monteiro, E. Forthcoming. Inaugural workshop on data research: What is missing from research on data in information systems? Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
Alaimo, C. and 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. and Pavlou, P. 2022. Can platform competition drive ratings inflation? The impact of vertical spillover effects. ICIS 2022 Proceedings, 5. Copenhagen, DK. 9–14 December 2022. full text available
Vorotyntseva, Y., Aaltonen, A., Kumar, S. and Pavlou, P. 2022. Can platform competition drive ratings inflation? The impact of vertical spillover effects. ECIS 2022 Research Papers, 83. Timisoara, RO. 22–24 June 2022. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2022. Social media was consuming me — but I took back control! Medium, 26 January 2022. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2022. How to count the review rounds in a peer-review process? Medium, 10 January 2022. full text available
Masiero, S. and Aaltonen, A. 2021. Gender bias in Management Information Systems. Medium, 8 December 2021. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2021. There is no self-plagiarism. Medium, 4 October 2021. full text available
Aaltonen, A., Alaimo, C. and Kallinikos, J. 2021. The making of data commodities: data analytics as an embedded process. Journal of Management Information Systems, 38(2), 401–429. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2021. Academia as competition. Medium, 24 May 2021. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2021. I deleted my Academia.edu account and you should too. Medium, 2 April 2021. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2021. Solutions that create problems. Medium, 13 March 2021. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2021. A simple vocabulary of data science concepts. Medium, 5 February 2021. full text available
Masiero, S. and Aaltonen, A. 2021. Gender bias in information systems research: a literature review. SSRN, 21 February 2021. full text available
Aaltonen, A. and Penttinen, E. 2021. What makes data possible? A sociotechnical view on structured data innovations. 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Hawaii, HI. 4–8 January 2021. full text available
Stelmaszak, M. and 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. 10–11 December 2020.
Aaltonen, A. 2020. Paying for peer reviews is a bad idea. Medium, 24 November 2020. full text available
Alaimo, C., Kallinikos, J. and 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. and 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. 15–17 June 2020. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2020. Donald Trump is smarter than you think. Medium, 25 April 2020. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2020. Virus outbreak/zombie movies to watch. Medium, 7 April 2020. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2020. The right time to take action? Medium, 26 March 2020. full text available
Stelmaszak, M. and Aaltonen, A. 2020. The more you measure them, the more they will game you. Medium, 10 January 2020. full text available
Kang, C., Aaltonen, A. and 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 available
Shi, M., Aaltonen, A. and 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 available
Stelmaszak, M. and 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 available
Stelmaszak, M. and Aaltonen, A. 2018. Closing the loop of big data analytics: the case of learning analytics. 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2018. Research paper as academic storytelling. Medium, 27 April 2018. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2016. Brexit is Not a Disaster for UK Startups. Medium, 19 July 2016. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2016. Blockchain Could Fix Even the EU. Medium, 15 July 2016. full text available
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 available
Aaltonen, A. 2016. Academia Should Learn from Software Development. Medium, 7 April 2016. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2016. Can Apple Resist the Stupidity of the Markets? Medium, 26 January 2016. full text available
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 available
Aaltonen, A. 2015. Who Broke Twitter? Medium, 16 November 2015. full text available
Aaltonen, A. and Seiler, S. 2015. Cumulative Growth in User-Generated Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia. Management Science, 62(7), 2054-2069. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2015. How to Manage Your Research Data? Medium, 10 October 2015. full text available
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 available
Aaltonen, A. and Lanzara, G. F. 2015. Building Governance Capability in Online Social Production: Insights from Wikipedia. Organization Studies, 36(12), 1649-1673. full text available
Charoenpanich, A. and 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 available
Aaltonen, A. 2014. BT Buying EE Shows That a More Radical Approach to Telcoms Regulation Is Needed. The Conversation, 19 December 2014. full text available
Aaltonen, A. and Seiler, S. 2014. Wikipedia: The Value of Open Content Production. CentrePiece, 19(2), 11–13. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2014. Android One Won't Make Google Big Bucks, So Why Bother With Cheap Smartphones? The Conversation, 24 September 2014. full text available
Aaltonen, A. and 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. full text available
Kallinikos, J., Aaltonen, A. and Marton, A. 2013. The Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts. MIS Quarterly, 37(2), 357–370.
Aaltonen, A. and Kallinikos, J. 2013. Coordination and Learning in Wikipedia: Revisiting the Dynamics of Exploitation and Exploration. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 37, 161–192.
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. and Karjalainen, S. 2013. Toward Quietly Smart Phones. The Huffington Post, 3 June 2013. full text available
Aaltonen, A. 2013. The Beauty and Perils of Metrics. Mercury Magazine, 2(3), 44–47. full text available
Aaltonen, A. and 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 available
Aaltonen, A. 2011. Manufacturing the Digital Advertising Audience. PhD thesis. The London School of Economics and Political Science. full text available
Kallinikos, J., Aaltonen, A. and Marton, A. 2010. A Theory of Digital Objects. First Monday, 15(6–7). full text available
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 available
Aaltonen, A. 2005. Where Do the Construction Projects Come From? The Case of the Kumpula Project. Master's thesis. University of Helsinki. full text available
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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 Assistant Professor at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, where he studies data-based innovation and organizing. Aleksi holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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