Biography
Cristina Alaimo is an Associate Professor at ESSEC Business School, France. She holds a Ph.D. in Management, Information Systems, and Innovation from LSE – The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her research focuses on the innovation brought about by data-based services and their consequences for organizations and society. She is also interested in studying the broader ecosystem of data exchanges in which digital platforms are embedded and how these new platform ecosystems emerge and evolve. Cristina’s work has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Organization Studies, The Information Society, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. She is a co-author with Jannis Kallinikos of the book “Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy,” The MIT Press (2024). Cristina is Senior Editor for the European Journal of Information Systems and Organization Studies and sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Information Systems. She is a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Digital Economy at Surrey Business School, UK.