Disruptive Digitalisation and Platforms

Mathias Béjean is full professor in strategy and innovation management at Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, affiliated with the IRG research lab. Additionally, he holds a professorship at Ecole polytechnique, where he teaches a course on public innovation and collaborates with the i3-CRG research lab.

This book provides an overview of the opportunities and risks of digitalisation, and the platforms that embody it and constitute society's new infrastructure.

General Introduction: Disruptive Digitalisation and Platforms Part I: Digital capitalism Introduction Chapter 1. Post-Privatisation and Corporate Political Responsibility: Negotiation of rights and duties in platform economy Chapter 2. The Birth of a Power: Amazon between infrastructurisation, data control and resistance Chapter 3. Oligopolistic platforms at the heart of digital disruption Chapter 4. Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Virtue Ethics Approach Part II: Digitalised (human) activity between cooperation and exploitation Introduction Chapter 5. Algorithmic Management: invisible boss or ghost work? Chapter 6. Towards substantive platforms Chapter 7. Civic Crowdfunding as a digital value co-creation model for sustainable innovation Chapter 8. Public policies for Alternative platforms: The case of Barcelona Part III: New digital sectors and business models Introduction Chapter 9. Synergising Data, AI, and Greentech Innovation for Climate Emergency: The French Ecolab Initiative Chapter 10. Healthcare Practices in the Digital Revolution Era: Exploring a Collaborative Territorial Initiative in France Chapter 11. Micromobility and Artificial Intelligence Integration in European Urban Landscapes Chapter 12. Industry 4.0 & platforms: The new convergence Chapter 13. E-commerce and its dark side: Towards a new deal between humans, nature and technology Part IV: EdTech and Higher Education Introduction Chapter 14. Post-Pandemic Perseverance in Higher Education's Dooming Digital Days: The Example of Business and Management Education Chapter 15. Can Online Higher Education Institutions close the educational gap in Italy? The case of Pegaso Digital University from a managerial perspective Chapter 16. Towards the Amazon University or the Open University?