The Organization in the Loop: Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages

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Authors

  • Stefanie Büchner
  • Henrik Dosdall
  • Ioanna Constantiou

Research Organisations

External Research Organisations

  • Thüringer Fachhochschule für Öffentliche Verwaltung
  • Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlrorithmic regimes
Subtitle of host publicationMethods, Interactions, and Politics
EditorsJuliane Jarke, Bianca Prietl, Simon Egbert, Yana Boeva, Hendrik Heuer
Chapter8
Pages163-186
Number of pages24
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Abstract

Organizations are a highly relevant contexts for understanding the interactions of algorithmic assemblages and the unfolding of algorithmic regimes. We argue that organizations must be understood as social systems that enable and restrict how algorithmic regimes unfold. We make this conceptual argument by analysing the algorithmic assemblage in the case of predictive policing in Germany and subsequently compare our insights with the case of hospitals which serve as our secondary case. Our analysis focuses on three crucial organizational dimensions: goals, differentiation, and goal conflicts. We argue that taking these dimensions into account sensitizes researchers not only to how organizations empower algorithmic regimes, but also to the frictions and breaks they cause.

Keywords

    goal conflicts, differentiation, predictive policing, hospitals

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The Organization in the Loop: Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages. / Büchner, Stefanie; Dosdall, Henrik; Constantiou, Ioanna.
Alrorithmic regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics. ed. / Juliane Jarke; Bianca Prietl; Simon Egbert; Yana Boeva; Hendrik Heuer. 2024. p. 163-186.

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Büchner, S, Dosdall, H & Constantiou, I 2024, The Organization in the Loop: Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages. in J Jarke, B Prietl, S Egbert, Y Boeva & H Heuer (eds), Alrorithmic regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics. pp. 163-186. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11895528.10
Büchner, S., Dosdall, H., & Constantiou, I. (2024). The Organization in the Loop: Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages. In J. Jarke, B. Prietl, S. Egbert, Y. Boeva, & H. Heuer (Eds.), Alrorithmic regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics (pp. 163-186) https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11895528.10
Büchner S, Dosdall H, Constantiou I. The Organization in the Loop: Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages. In Jarke J, Prietl B, Egbert S, Boeva Y, Heuer H, editors, Alrorithmic regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics. 2024. p. 163-186 doi: 10.2307/jj.11895528.10
Büchner, Stefanie ; Dosdall, Henrik ; Constantiou, Ioanna. / The Organization in the Loop : Exploring Organizations as Complex Elements of Algorithmic Assemblages. Alrorithmic regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics. editor / Juliane Jarke ; Bianca Prietl ; Simon Egbert ; Yana Boeva ; Hendrik Heuer. 2024. pp. 163-186
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