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Evaluative infrastructures: Accounting for platform organization
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“Firstly, as Roscoe and Chillas (2014) show in their analysis of the online dating platform eHarmony, the infrastructure of matching might provide only an illusion of choice.”
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In “Building a market for love,” the paper says algorithmic-matching users have relatively few partner choices and rely on the algorithm. “The algorithm knows best” adds that limited shortlists restrict independent browsing, even as matching is presented as active, rational choice. These passages support the hedged description of choice as potentially illusory; page numbers were not supplied. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“Ebay's evaluative infrastructure originally consisted simply of a public discussion board called the “Feedback Forum” and unique user names assigned to each registered email address.”
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“All of these details can be found but they do not add up in to one stable object as a singular rating or ranking would do.”
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“These were features created initially as a means of easing the problem of directly intervening in and adjudicating disputes between an ever-growing set of users.”
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“on eBay, Uber and Airbnb, for instance, users evaluate each transaction and thus control is de-facto outsourced and decentralized.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Summary and critical appreciation: going beyond accounting's hierarchical consciousness
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“The evaluative infrastructure created to solve this problem provided a means of distributing the task of management that had originally and painstakingly been undertaken in-house.”
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“Providing knowledge about people that would otherwise be private such as their reputation, history, and status (Wolf & Mahunna, 2005), and establishing the properties of products as the foundation of enforceable contract (Lewis 2011), the evaluative infrastructures provided anonymous and remote individuals who were unlikely to have repeat interactions and were selling items that cannot be touched,”
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- Not matchedcites Baron, 2001
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“This also happens because users have different preferences, for instance, for communication over dispatch time, or for recent transactions rather than historical ones.”
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“Sellers too engage in a complex set of activities to engineer a match.”
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“The addition of quantitative feedback ratings built upon and provided the conditions to enhance this private ordering.”
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“Possibly as a feature intended to continue to offer competition and lower the barriers for entry, the picture which the platform seeks to provide is not the clear and parsimonious one of ranking and ratings (Pollock & D'Adderio, 2012: 258), but rather a complex set of possibilities for making connections which may not immediately be clear.”
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The indexed passage labeled “1 Finished” discusses how a graphical ranking device shapes IT markets, but does not describe the citing document’s platform or its possibilities for making connections. Searches for the claimed contrast with clear rankings and ratings, and for platform connections and barriers to entry, found no passage addressing it. The indexed passages provide no page number. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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“This scholarship shares the premise that value is not an objective property of a good, nor a subjective preference of a person, but the outcome of practices and processes of valuation.”
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- Not matchedcites Karpik, 2010
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The sections “Financial cognition, calculative agency, performativity, and sets of participants” and “Accounting intersections” describe value as collectively assigned through valuation mechanisms and organizational or market processes (page numbers unavailable). They do not explicitly support the further claim that value is neither an objective property of a good nor a person's subjective preference. (LLM, conf=0.82)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Beckert & Aspers, 2011
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“This is highlighted by the puzzlement of economists that find evaluative infrastructures to be capable of sustaining markets despite being plagued by factual inaccuracies, misleading claims, and unrepresentative assessments (Tadelis, 2016;Resnick, et al., 2006).”
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The Introduction describes the success of online marketplaces as surprising to early skeptics and says feedback and reputation systems are central to those markets. Section 5, “Biases in Online Feedback Systems,” reports that ratings can be biased and unrepresentative, and the discussion of fake reputations describes misleading assessments. But the paper does not specifically say economists are puzzled that markets persist *despite inaccuracies in those assessments*; its stated surprise concerns trust in anonymous online trade. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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The Conclusion (page unavailable) calls eBay feedback a system that works despite apparent weaknesses: only half of buyers leave feedback, raising concern about selection bias, yet large numbers of items sell. This supports the puzzlement about markets functioning with potentially unrepresentative assessments. The paper does not establish that the feedback system is plagued by factual inaccuracies or misleading claims; its Additional information section instead suggests that serious seller misrepresentation is uncommon. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“As already alluded to above, it is important to note that eBay can be read as a more or less traditional hierarchal firm with 12,000 employees; yet, what we are interested in is the fact that its value creation occurs on a platform which mobilises hundreds of millions of users and billions of dollars of transactions without eBay being able to control any of these fundamental activities through its”
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“there is the important caveat that information is centrally collected by the platform owner who is thus in a position to analyse, mine and sell data (Facebook or Google ads); equally, the platform owner is in a position to use the data to drive certain transactions (e.g.Uber surge).”
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“This started with a system allowing users to review each other as “positive”, “neutral” or “negative” and to leave a line of feedback or description (such as that at the bottom of Figure 2).Next, these reviews were aggregated into numerical scores for each user (positive reviews added a point, negative reviews subtracted one, and neutral reviews had no effect), and presented in terms of different”
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“Likewise, the written feedback that has no discernible structure but can be cast around any possible subject of concern.”
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“An inspection of the ecology of devices that make up the feedback forum and user profile (Figures 2 and 3 above) shows that although one can discern an overall score for each user, in the case shown in figure 3 it is 558, linked with a star colour, the profiles do not define what is 'good' or 'bad'.This happens because the overall score measures the volume of positive transactions rather than”
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“As platform owners, eBay did not seek to extend accounting as a means of territorialisation from the centre.Rather, they mobilized accounting throughout constant and continued experimentation (Ungerleider, 2014) and mining of information endogenous to the site.”
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“In developing its infrastructure, eBay did not seek to judge participant's characters or fact check the quality of their offerings.”
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“In fact, eBay was concerned not to figure out for itself what “reputation” was; a thorough investigation of what lurked behind the numbers (the pursuit of referentiality) would have challenged its status, so essential to its business model, as merely the “modern incarnation of the traditional newspaper classified advertisement and automated and accelerated for the twenty-first century” (Gentry v”
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“eBay has also sought to manage the development of its 'community' throughout its history.”
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“this paper develops the concept of evaluative infrastructure which describes accounting practices that enable platform based organization.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Abstract
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“over the past decades two specific strands of accounting literature have challenged this hierarchical orientation and explored accounting in non-hierarchical settings.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Theoretical context: accounting for platforms
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“the need to escape what Hopwood (1996) describes as its “hierarchical consciousness”.”
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“Platform organizations' business models rest on their ability to ensure trust between these buyers and sellers.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Introduction
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“Therefore, supply chain and network accounting are lateral in principle, but often, as research shows, in practice such accounting is concerned with the formation of relative hierarchies between a powerful and a less powerful (set of) firms”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Point of departure # 1: Accounting in inter-organizational networks
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“this literature remains wedded to notions of hierarchy and the visible hand searching for efficiencies in closed supply chains.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Introduction
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“Platforms hold limited fixed assets, hire only few employees, and externalize the value creation process”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Empirical context: the disruptive phenomenon of platform organization
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“accounting as infrastructure may be simultaneously a means of disclosing a new world, of exploring, opening up, generating new opportunities and new subjectivities”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Point of departure # 3: Making up people and things?
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“What allows them to do so is a specific accounting regimea regime that this paper sets out to describe as evaluative infrastructure.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Introduction
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“In contrast with such networks, platforms are more market-based as they invite literally millions of hitherto unknown producers and consumers to transact with each other; the difference is quantitative but also qualitative: platforms do not extend or enlarge a set of relations, but populate a place with the possibilities for relations to form.”
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“The topography of space upon which accounting has been shown to be assembled is one with a distinctive centre and periphery, exemplified in the notion of territorialization”
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“Digital technology and the move towards access rather than ownership (Rifkin, 2001), among other factors, are fuelling the rapid growth of platforms.”
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“control in evaluative infrastructures is radically distributed whilst power remains centralized”
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“Platforms are distinct from hierarchies, markets and networks and challenge their status as opposing and exclusive forms of organization (Powell, 1990).”
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“These singular devices function like obligatory points of passage; they format and edit the things and people that are brought through them, while they remain static filters.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Point of departure # 4: Accounting as mediating device?
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“accounting is seen to reconstitute its objects through its capacity to “translate” (Robson, 1992), “transpose” (Knorr-Cetina & Grimpe, 2008), “reframe” (Miller & Power, 2013), or “interess” (Chua, 1995).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Point of departure # 3: Making up people and things?
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“Accounting, understood this way, is argued to remake its objects through the ability to corner, capture, stabilize, or close: accounting “envelops” its objects (Miller & Power, 2013: 562); it territorializes by fencing in.”
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“They are infrastructures because they provide the invisible yet essential mechanisms for the flow of economic activity and exchange on platforms.”
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“platforms' value-add is to provide an interface for interaction and controlling mechanism for transactions between tens of thousands, sometimes even millions of buyers and sellers who might never meet in person.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Introduction
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“the second, more critical, strand of literature remains tied to a centralist notion of power”
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“Because value creation itself is accomplished by hundreds of thousands of people outside hierarchical relationships we need to investigate the specificity of the accounting regime that underpins such decentralized production.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Empirical context: the disruptive phenomenon of platform organization
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“this proposition which we will explore in this paper does not suggest heterarchical accounting regimes would replace more traditional hierarchical forms of accounting.”
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“In supply chains and networks, production is decentralized but still attributable; the boundary of the firm is extended, but only to include a finite number of other firms.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Point of departure # 1: Accounting in inter-organizational networks
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“They are evaluative because they deploy a plethora of interacting devices, including rankings, ratings, reviews, and audits to establish orders of worth.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Abstract
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“Platforms are a “new type of firm”, which provide “the [digital] infrastructure to intermediate between different groups” (Srnicek, 2016: 12).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Empirical context: the disruptive phenomenon of platform organization
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“evaluative infrastructures do not territorialize from a center, but instead disclose new worlds.”
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“internally platform organizations may resemble hierarchically organized firms.”
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“Platform organizations such as Uber, eBay and Airbnb represent a growing disruptive phenomenon in contemporary capitalism, transforming economic organization, the nature of work, and the distribution of wealth.”
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“In reality, they are assemblages of technical artefacts, institutional arrangements, cultural habits and social conventions (Hughes, 1983;Bijker et al., 1987).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Infrastructure's modalities and functions
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“In contradistinction, protocol puts emphasis on the intricate, perhaps even paradoxical, relationship between distributed control and centralized power.”
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“Hence, we face intricate power relations in platforms' accounting regime: whilst control of goods and services is radically decentralized, power is concentrated in the hands of the platform owner.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Summary and critical appreciation: going beyond accounting's hierarchical consciousness
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“Accounting, in other words, operates by creating relations between actions, behaviours and preferences, so as to engineer possibilities of a match.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“Central to eBay's story has been its early development of evaluative infrastructures (Baron, 2001), which Stone et al. (2014: 357) describe as “the world's largest and most widely imitated MCS [management control system]”.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > The evaluative dimension of infrastructures
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“On the Feedback Forum, Baron (2001: 246) notes, “members established informal standards, provided feedback on other members' performance, and policed the site”.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > The evaluative dimension of infrastructures
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“But not only physical infrastructures exercise power; categorical infrastructures (Schneiberg & Berk, 2010) shape perceptions, guide attention and pattern “structures of intentionality” (Goodwin quoted in Bowker & Star, 1999: 287).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Infrastructure's modalities and functions
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“Therefore, while well aware of the potential for some bias and also the need for further in depth studies, we have gathered data for this section from a wide variety of primary and secondary sources such as investigatory journalism and academic research.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > The evaluative dimension of infrastructures
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“We capture this quality through arguing that evaluative infrastructures disclose new worlds: they do not simply measure (capture, calculate) what is there, or what a centre imagines there to be, nor do they territorialize (fence in, colonize) life-worlds.”
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“Translated into the context of platform organization: evaluative infrastructures do not calculate what is there but disclose new worlds through creating objects that are not so much the outcomes of programmatic aspirations, but of a surplus of data and traces, which produce new possibilities of discovery and invention.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Summary and critical appreciation: going beyond accounting's hierarchical consciousness
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“We argue that in evaluative infrastructures power is centralized, while control is radically decentralized.”
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“This highlights the relational aspect of infrastructures: infrastructures are not singular mediating devices that strive for referentiatlity between objects and representations; rather, evaluative infrastructures generate relations (not references) between things, people and ideas.”
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“This alludes to the temporal dimension of infrastructure: it is a dynamic assemblage that is evolving and changing.”
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“Rather, infrastructures are a form of control that determines the potentiality of any place within the network, defining what is possible and actual (to paraphrase Hopwood, 1987).”
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“This section has also been sent to and informally discussed with a member of eBay Labs with the aim to check accuracy and explore its propositions.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > The evaluative dimension of infrastructures
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“The relational character of feedback makes it potentially surprising and generative of new issues and possibilities.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“A private ordering emerged; it was said (perhaps overstated) that “trust on the site was so high and the feeling of community so strong that it was common for sellers to ship items even before they had received bidders' payments” (Baron, 2001: 26).”
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“Hence, in infrastructure, the technical and the social are inextricably intertwined (Larkin, 2013).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Infrastructure's modalities and functions
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“Disciplinary power as defined by Foucault is about enclosure (territorialisation) of things and people, whilst control is about managing flows (Deleuze, 1992).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Infrastructure's modalities and functions
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“Our reading of extant research echoes Hopwood's diagnosis that even “the so called new management accountings still tend to maintain this hierarchical orientation””
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Summary and critical appreciation: going beyond accounting's hierarchical consciousness
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“Whilst much extant research has focused on moments of valuation (Antal et al., 2015) or singular valuation devices (Muniesa et al., 2007) the concept of evaluative infrastructures puts emphasis on the distributed, systematic nature of valuation processes that underpin platform organization.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > The evaluative dimension of infrastructures
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“As Star and Ruhleder (1996: 114) argued, an “infrastructure occurs when the tension between local and global is resolved.””
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Infrastructure's modalities and functions
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“Evaluative infrastructures include rankings, ratings, reviews, tests, audits, assessments and other evaluation mechanisms (Antal et al., 2015;Kornberger et al., 2015).”
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“First, because of this radically relational character infrastructures need to be understood as ecologies (Star & Ruhleder, 1996, referencing Bateson, 1972;Star, 1999;Bowker et al., 2010;Monteiro et al., 2013).”
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“Hence, departing from the focus on singular mediating instruments, we propose thinking of an “ecology of devices” that Star and Ruhleder (1996;Star, 1999;Monteiro et al., 2013) describe as “infrastructure”.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Point of departure # 4: Accounting as mediating device?
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“Whilst there may be no single actor in the centre, there is a centre that controls activities and exercises power.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Summary and critical appreciation: going beyond accounting's hierarchical consciousness
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“In the case of eBay, reputation is not “there” to facilitate exchange; rather, reputation is the result of evaluative infrastructure's disclosing, constituting an asset which Fourcade and Healy (2013;2016) described as “ubercapital”-the form of capital arising from the “digital record” which evaluative infrastructure unfurls.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“eBay users become the auditors of platform activities, and in-house fraud investigation and protection becomes only a reluctantly-used last resort (Stone, Nikitkov, & Miller, 2014: 368).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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“By virtue of its ownership of the platform (as well as the possibilities that the data generates), eBay is able to draw boundaries on what can and cannot be traded, outlawing, for instance, the sale of firearms, drugs, body parts, and alcohol and cigarettes, as well as determining how trade can take place, by, for instance, establishing PayPal as the site's de-facto payment mechanism (Cohen, 2002;”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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“Consistent with the accounting literature, sellers engage in gaming activities (Argyris, 1990) such as “shrilling” and “feedback bombing”, as well as getting caught up in self-fulfilling prophecies, whereby initial negative feedback increases the chances of receiving subsequent negative feedback (Cabral & Hortacsu, 2004: Saeedi et al, 2013).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“Crucially, eBay's proprietary interfaces, from discussion boards to the feedback forum and even its fraud detection system, depend upon its users to work.They require that users evaluate, assess, control, and follow up what their fellow users do, creating much of the information that eBay's evaluative infrastructure collects, analysis and uses to organize its platform.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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“Such adjudication would have limited eBay's ability to scale, because of the resources required and because doing so would make the company liable for the claims made in its site.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Disclosing values
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“The hidden cursor directs attention to the point that platforms rely upon two types of accounting.One type of accounting is conventionally hierarchical: as a firm, eBay accounts for its profits, assets and costs and controls hierarchically its in-house employees.Another type is the accounting that makes up the platform's ability to connect and relate millions of suppliers and buyers.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Disclosing values
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“Attention to the elaboration of evaluative infrastructure highlights that problematic way in which organizations constitute, control and commodify capital from digital traces.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“This relationship between power and control can be described analytically as protocol (Deleuze, 1992;Lessig, 1999;Galloway, 2004).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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- Not matchedcites Galloway, 2004
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“Thirdly, evaluative infrastructures are problematic because they constitute not only economic value but also life chances.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“As a platform, eBay's accounting mechanisms make it a producer of classifications looking for traces and combinations which can be pulled together to disclose the world in a new way.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Disclosing values
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“Unfolding in this way, evaluative infrastructures operate without a stable referent.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Disclosing values
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“Even though eBay asserts no responsibility for the claims made on its platform, it maintains strict control over the infrastructure and the data which it generates.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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“This is the reason why reputations are bought and sold on eBay and why sellers have sued buyers for leaving negative feedback (Med Express Inc. v Amy Nicholls and eBay Inc.; Baron, 2001).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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- Not matchedcites Med Express Inc. v Amy Nicholls and eBay Inc.
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- Not matchedcites Baron, 2001
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“There are even online platforms (such as traity.com)whose sole purpose is to manage users' various forms of “ubercapital” which they acquire on other platforms, in social media, in computer games, and elsewhere.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“Hierarchies and markets, of course live on, even within platform organizations; managers, not history, confront managerial dilemmas and choose how and on what terms to respond to them.As such, management accounting and its hierarchical consciousness have a significant-and in our rendering a perhaps sometimes deemphasized-place in theorizing the prevalent patterns of organizational change.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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“The case of eBay highlights the infrastructural character of a heterachical mode of accounting.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“But, they do not necessarily have to be controlled as individuals; rather, with each new user, eBay recruits an additional auditor (in disguise) of platform activity.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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“What were once anonymous and remote buyers and sellers wary of online commerce, had become multi-dimensional representations (usernames, histories, feedback ratings, points, stars, and other descriptors) transacting at a significant scale,”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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“Instead, it is about creating the condition for the possibility of hitherto unknown things to surface.In this sense, disclosing is about exploration, not exposure.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Disclosing
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“This mutual dependency was highlighted by a series of insurgencies led by disgruntled users in response to changes to the Feedback Forum throughout its development.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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“the use of many exclamation marks for instance was read as indicative of assertiveness and hence aggressive driving behaviour.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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- Not matchedcites https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/admiral-to-price-car-insurance-based-on-facebook-posts
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“Past buying behaviour leads to personalized recommendations for future purchases: evaluative infrastructure creates patterns, relentlessly connecting, comparing, and contextualizing.This leads to an endogenous ordering as infrastructure-immanent activity as opposed to external categorizations.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“Today's platform based firms, such as eBay, Uber and Airbnb but also its smaller siblings in the emerging fintech industry or blockchain banking are big data firms: their competence is data creation, collection, experimentation, and analysis (McAfee & Brynjolfsson, 2012).”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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“In fact, eBay, like other platform organizations, is notoriously secretive about its evaluative infrastructure; it is as if the evaluation seemed to be premised on the fact that its production has to remain secret in order to stay truthful.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Protocol
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“These topographies neither represent calculative spaces (bookkeeping), nor concrete spaces (such as the factory floor) nor abstract spaces (such as the brand); rather, they are emerging spaces of values (trust in eBay; skills in LinkedIn; reputation in Airbnb) that are disclosed through evaluative infrastructures.As over time different infrastructures are layered on top of each other, they will”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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“Firstly, power and control do not flow in only one direction (as in, for instance, the development of rules within an outsourced network) but develop at the same time, and in different directions.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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“Evaluative infrastructures are assemblages of heterogeneous elements that create relations between elements across space and time.As such, we showed that they are not singular mediating devices that strive for referentiality between objects and representations.Rather, they are ecologies of interacting devices that generate relations (not references) between people's actions, behaviours, experi”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“Hence, evaluative infrastructures are contextualizing machines: they constantly link events, actions, behaviours, decisions (clicks), assessments and other traces left unintentionally and unconsciously (such as speed of typing, time of access, or browser used to access site)all of which are used to build a web of context around objects and subjects.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“After a public outcry on privacy grounds Admiral had to shelf its ideafor now.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/admiral-to-price-car-insurance-based-on-facebook-posts
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“In so doing, evaluative infrastructures disclose values that represent the resource base of economic activity.As shown, eBay's evaluative infrastructure discloses trust as key currency without which it could not operate.Through its evaluative infrastructure, eBay creates the non-economic values it relies on for its economic success.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Disclosing
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“Hence, it is unsatisfactory to say that evaluative infrastructures reframe or constitute preexisting types of trust because it is formed and disclosed via evaluative infrastructures that , generate opportunities to connect just like a new highway built into wilderness discloses the opportunity to travel, visit and settle.It is equally unsatisfactory to argue that trust is socially constructed: at”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Disclosing
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“In eBay's evaluative infrastructure control is decentralized, whereas power remains centralized.eBay exercises power through its infrastructural design, maintaining standards, imposing what counts and how to count, excluding users, and introducing rules.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Protocol
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“Whilst there can be no doubt of the centralized power of eBay as a firm, control itself is decentralized and distributed alongside the production processes of eBay as a platform.As a firm, eBay might reproduce accounting's hierarchical consciousness; however, as a platform, eBay's evaluative infrastructure illustrates a heterarchical mode of accounting.”
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“Big data for instance is an important precondition to and outcome of the development of evaluative infrastructures.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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“Through connecting events, actions, behaviours, decisions (clicks) and assessments by third parties on eBay, new qualities such as reputation or trust come to the fore.These qualities are not a result of referencing or trailing, but of relations that the infrastructure engenders without altering the connected objects themselves.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
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“Evaluative infrastructures embody expectations about the future.This can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies and other forms of reversed causality in which expectations of future behaviour shape present behaviour.A second important temporal dynamic are network effects that might turn infrastructures that have grown to critical mass into de-facto standards.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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“Evaluative infrastructures produce novel apparatuses of power: they are not centres of calculation that allow action at distance, projecting power to the periphery.Rather, evaluative infrastructures produce a more differentiated regime: in evaluative infrastructures control is radically distributed, whilst power remains centralized.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Protocol
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“On the one hand, the platform owners gain ever more power to make use of platform data and to design protocol rules.On the other hand, the platform owners gain this power through the distribution of control.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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“Rather, eBay's evaluative infrastructure disclosed a new form of relationality in which trust between anonymous actors could come into existence: through feedback loops, ratings, comments, and other evaluation mechanisms trust came into existence as a quantification.”
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“The concept of evaluative infrastructures serves as reminder for the relentless background work that has to be accomplished in order to turn 0/1s into voices and values.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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“Even for the benevolent observer it must have become obvious that the difference between purporting and provoking has been conflated in the disclosing powers of platform accounting.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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“The experiment aimed to determine whether the company could alter the emotional state of its users.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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- Not matchedcites Guardian
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“Users may gain control but, because the emergence evaluative infrastructure as protocol creates ever bigger network effects (Haucap and Heimeshoff, 2014), users lose power to resist or even exit the platforms as switching costs increase with every new user.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Centralized power, decentralized control
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Haucap and Heimeshoff, 2014 source
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“indeed, evaluative infrastructures are at play at Uber just as well as at its cooperative twin, the mobility platform LaZooz.As such evaluative infrastructures span ideological boundaries, suggesting that rhetorical disagreements are in reality based on a shared intellectual and material investments.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Conclusion: towards a research agenda of accounting for platform organization
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eBay is a prototypical platform that is based, at least in large part, on evaluative infrastructure.
“we provide the extended example of eBay as prototypical platform that is based, at least in large part, on such a novel accounting regime.”
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Platforms (such as eBay, Uber, Airbnb) are heterarchically organized systems.
“We are now in a position to define evaluative infrastructure: it consists of an ecology of devices that disclose values of actions and behaviours in heterarchically organized systems (such as platforms) through the maintenance of protocol.”
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Platforms (eBay, Airbnb, Uber) are a new disruptive phenomenon that requires new conceptual vocabulary.
“The concept of evaluative infrastructure represents such an attempt at conceptual re-tooling with the aim to grapple with the new disruptive phenomenon of platforms and in so doing think accounting as heterarchical practice.”
The paper relies on this without support.
eBay's evaluative infrastructure is representative of platform organization more generally.
“eBay provides an advantageous setting to consider platform organization, the development of novel forms of accounting alongside its classical counterparts, and the opportunities and challenges of moving our analytical thinking beyond a hierarchical consciousness.”
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eBay is a representative or illustrative case from which general claims about platform organizations can be drawn.
“As the illustrative case of eBay highlights, evaluative infrastructures focus attention on the questions of what precisely is new in the new economy of platform organization.”
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§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
“They are part and product of an ecology of devices that connect, and through this work of connecting change the objects they relate to each other.”
§ Evaluative Infrastructures Accounting for Platform Organization > Relationality
“These qualities are not a result of referencing or trailing, but of relations that the infrastructure engenders without altering the connected objects themselves.”
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“A digital platform can therefore be de fi ned as a ‘ matchmaker ’ between providers who o ff er a production capacity and users interested to use, buy, or enjoy it (Kornberger et al., 2017).”
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“In particular, they can specify whether the transaction was positive, neutral or negative (Kornberger et al. 2017).”
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“…media, platforms such as Ebay and Uber have been examined as evaluative infrastructures, “an ecology of devices that disclose values of actions, events and objects in heterarchically organized systems (such as platforms) through the maintenance of protocol” (Kornberger et al., 2017, p. 85).”
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“…sich unmittelbar auf Fragen nach Sichtbarkeit aus, da unterschiedliche mediale Formate wie Zahlen, Texte, Listen, Piktogramme oder Grafiken (vgl. Kornberger et al. 2017) einerseits unterschiedliche Bewertungspraktiken ermöglichen bzw. daraus hervorgehen (vgl. Pollock 2012; Wagner & Barth 2016)…”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kornberger, M., Pflueger, D., & Mouritsen, J.
- Affiliations
- Copenhagen Business School (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Kornberger, Martin
- Venue
- Accounting Organizations and Society
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-07
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 60
- Pages
- 79-95
- ISSN
- 0361-3682 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2725114605
- Cited by
- 349
- References
- 204
- Citations by year
- 2026: 48 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 36.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Accounting Organizations and Society (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- WU Research (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Accounting and Organizational Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Accounting Theory and Financial Reporting
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Keywords
- platform organizations, accounting practice, heterarchy, peer review, auditing, eBay, Uber, Airbnb, management accounting, distributed control, relationality, generativity, new organizational forms
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