Department of Digitalization

ob.digi

Department of Digitalization

Olivia
Benfeldt
Assistant professor


Room: HOW/60-5.12
E-mail: ob.digi@cbs.dk
Presentation

Olivia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Digitalization. Her research relies on engaged scholarship to study and theorize aspects of datafication, with specific emphasis on data governance, data work in organizations, and new forms of data-driven organizing such as data collectives and data cooperatives. Olivia holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems and an M.Sc. in Information Technology, both from Aalborg University.

Primary research areas
  • Data governance
  • Data regulation and implications for organizing
  • Data work in organizations
  • Theory building in IS
Social media
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ob.digi
Courses
  • Strategy Making and Information Technology
  • IT-based change
  • Technology and Organization in a Digital World
  • Theory of Scientific Method
Supervision
  • Any topic related to data governance
  • Empirical studies of data work in organizations
  • Datafication in the workplace
  • New forms of data-driven organizing (including collective, democratic, or polycentric approaches to governing data)
Selected publications

Benfeldt, O., Persson, J. S., & Madsen, S. (2020). ”Data governance as a collective action problem”. Information Systems Frontiers (22:2), pp. 299–313.

Nielsen, O. B. (2017). “A Comprehensive Review of Data Governance Literature.” Selected Papers of the IRIS, (8) pp. 120-133.

Publications sorted by:
2024
Olivia Benfeldt; Sine Zambach; Stig Nyman; Maren Gierlich-Joas / Data Diplomacy as Governance Practice
In: Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). ed. /Michel Avital; Elena Karahanna; Marinos Themistocleous; Ioanna Constantiou; Brian Fitzgerald; Stefan Seidel. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2024 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
Article in proceedings > peer review
Stig Nyman; Olivia Benfeldt; Maren Gierlich-Joas; Christoffer Bagger; Sine Zambach; Andreas Blicher; Somnath Mazumdar; Jacob Nørbjerg; Mads Bødker; José Parra-Moyano; Tina Blegind Jensen; Torkil Clemmensen / From Algorithmic Management to Data-driven Labour Organising : A Trade Union Approach to Workplace Datafication.
In: Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 36, No. 1, 7.2024, p. 13-38
Journal article > peer review
Olivia Benfeldt; Sine Zambach; Maren Gierlich-Joas / Modalities of Data Diplomacy : How Negotiations Shape Data Governance in Multi-Actor Settings.
In: The proceedings of the 15th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS) held in Uddevalla, Sweden, 2024. ed. /Aleksandre Asatiani; Anna Sigridur Islind; Johan Magnusson. WWW : Association for Information Systems (AIS) 2024
Article in proceedings > peer review
2023
Jeppe Agger Nielsen; Lars Mathiassen; Olivia Benfeldt; Sabine Madsen; Christian Ravn Haslam; Esko Penttinen / Organizational Resilience and Digital Resources : Evidence from Responding to Exogenous Shock by Going Virtual.
In: International Journal of Information Management, Vol. 73, 12.2023
Journal article > peer review
2021
Olivia Benfeldt; Sabine Madsen; Jeppe Agger Nielsen; Christian Ravn Haslam; Esko Penttinen; Lars Kolind Mathiassen / Digital Resilience: How a Danish University Recovered From an Exogenous Shock by Activating Accumulated Digital Resources
Paper presented at Danish Political Science Association: Annual Meeting 2021, 2021
Paper > peer review
2020
Olivia Benfeldt; John Stouby Persson; Sabine Madsen / Data Governance as a Collective Action Problem
In: Information Systems Frontiers, Vol. 22, No. 2, 4.2020, p. 299-313
Journal article > peer review
Olivia Benfeldt / Polycentric Governance of Organizational Data Ventures : An Organizing Logic for Data Governance in the Digital Era.
Aalborg : Aalborg Universitetsforlag 2020 (Aalborg Universitet. Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet. Ph.D.-Serien)
PhD thesis
2019
Olivia Benfeldt; John Stouby Persson; Sabine Madsen / Why Governing Data is Difficult : Findings from Danish Local Government.
In: Smart Working, Living and Organising. ed. /Amany Elbanna; Yogesh K. Dwivedi; Deborah Bunker; David Wastell. Cham : Springer VS 2019, p. 15-29 (I F I P)
Article in proceedings > peer review
2017
Olivia Benfeldt Nielsen / A Comprehensive Review of Data Governance Literature
In: IRIS: Selected Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2017, 14 p., p. 120-133
Conference article in journal > peer review