New Games, New Rules, New Scoreboards: The Potential Consequences of Big Data
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I believe that Ioanna Constantiou and Jannis Kallinikos are correct in asserting that Big Data portends major changes for organizations and society. But I also believe that the source of Big Data’s potentially transformative power lies not so much in the characteristics of Big Data, on which those authors concentrate, as it does in what Big Data’s character- istics afford (Markus and Silver, 2008; Kallinikos, 2011).
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IM has primarily focussed on technical resources and infrastructure, and wider BAM research has focussed on non-technical resources.
“While, IM has primarily focussed on technical resources and infrastructure, and wider BAM research has focussed on non-technical resources, our capability framework objectively brings these two rather fragmented pieces of literature together (Loebbecke & Picot, 2015;Markus, 2015).”
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- Authors
- Markus, M. L.
- Affiliations
- Bentley University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Markus, M Lynne
- Venue
- Journal of Information Technology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-03
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 58-59
- ISSN
- 0268-3962 (ISSN-L)
- 1466-4437
- OpenAlex
- W2056908102
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5
- FWCI
- 18.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Information Technology (publishedVersion)
- Journal of the Association for Information Systems (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Big Data Technologies and Applications
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Keywords
- big data, big data characteristics, organizational change, social change, affordances
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