Department of Digitalization

ob.digi

Department of Digitalization

Olivia
Benfeldt
Assistant professor


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

Olivia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Digitalization. Her research relies on engaged scholarship to study and theorize complex processes of digitalization, with specific emphasis on data work and data governance within organizations. Olivia holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems and an M.Sc. in Information Technology, both from Aalborg University.

Primary research areas
  • Data governance
  • Digital resourcing 
  • Digital organization
  • Theory building in IS
Social media
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ob.digi
Courses
  • Theory of Scientific Method
  • Digital Organization
  • Strategy Making and Information Technology
Supervision
  • Thesis and projects related to listed research areas
  • Digital transformation
  • Digital strategy
  • Action design research
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:
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