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Re-Envisioning European Competitive Dynamics: Institutional Role Models in Driving Non-Discriminatory Collaborative Innovations for Road Network Digitization
No full textIn Europe's dynamic economic landscape, road network digitization is pivotal. Germany's Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport outlined a framework for Building Information Modeling (BIM) integration into highway infrastructure. This digitization emphasizes vast data aggregation, governance, and visualization, underscoring digital infrastructure enhancement needs. BIM's success hinges on stakeholder alignment across Europe. The C-ROADS consortium represents this, unifying European states to launch 'Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems' (C ITS). This system, emphasizing economic efficiency and safety, utilizes vehicle communication for traffic management. Stakeholder analysis highlights the potential of inclusive collaborations, reflecting the EU's drive to rival global giants like the USA and China. The EU intends to quicken innovation and amplify global positioning. Decision making paths are crucial, influenced by institutional role models and Luhmann's view of organizations. The core question: How do entities manage inter-organizational collaboration? The paper probes inter-organizational challenges and explores institutional role models' capacity to enhance EU innovation and global standing. Interviews with European mobility experts and evaluations based on grounded theory provide the paper's empirical part
Einschätzungen aus der argentinischen Abgeordnetenkammer zum Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz in Parlamenten
No full textParlamente analysieren derzeit, ob sich Technologien aus dem Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) zur Erledigung bestimmter parlamentarischer Aufgaben eignen. Mit Blick auf Werkzeuge, Anwendungsbereiche, Nutzungsszenarien und Bedürfnisse werden KI-getriebene Veränderungen in Parlamenten erwartet. Der Einsatz von KI im parlamentarischen Raum ist bisher jedoch noch wenig erforscht. Der Beitrag präsentiert empirische Belege für die künftige Nutzung von KI-basierten Werkzeugen und Diensten in einem nationalen Parlament. Die Daten wurden während eines Brainstormings im Jahr 2020 und eines virtuellen Workshops im argentinischen Parlament 2022 gesammelt. Die Analyse gibt Aufschluss über die praxisnahe Priorisierung von KI-basierten Technologien im parlamentarischen Umfeld. Im Rahmen der Studie wurden die Relevanz und die Priorität von 210 Anwendungen sowie Themen rund um KI-Technologien mit Blick auf den argentinischen Nationalkongress und seine Kammern untersucht.Los parlamentos están analizando actualmente si las tecnologías de inteligencia artificial (IA) son adecuadas para llevar a cabo determinadas tareas parlamentarias. Se esperan cambios impulsados por la IA en los parlamentos en lo que respecta a herramientas, ámbitos de aplicación, escenarios de uso y necesidades. Sin embargo, el uso de la IA en el ámbito parlamentario ha sido poco investigado hasta la fecha. Este artículo presenta datos empíricos sobre el uso futuro de herramientas y servicios basados en la IA en un parlamento nacional. Los datos se recopilaron durante una sesión de intercambio de ideas en 2020 y un taller vir-tual en el parlamento argentino en 2022. El análisis proporciona información sobre la prio-rización práctica de las tecnologías basadas en IA en el entorno parlamentario. Como parte del estudio, se analizó la relevancia y prioridad de 210 aplicaciones y temas relacionados con las tecnologías de IA en relación con el Congreso Nacional argentino y sus cámaras
From self-descriptions (SD) to self-recommendations (SR): Evolving Gaia-X for the future European economy
No full textThe European decentralized-organized data-infrastructure ecosystem Gaia-X faces the challenge of initiating, maintaining, and intensifying data exchange between data providers and data consumers in all its Gaia-X data exchange domains to contribute significantly to the future viability of the European economy. The overall success of Gaia-X would enhance the innovative power and competitiveness of European companies and reduce their dependence on American and Chinese platform companies. This paper analyzes how the Big Data era affects the design of centralized-organized and decentralized-organized platforms and applies the findings to Gaia-X. It proposes to extend the Self-Descriptions (SD) already firmly embedded in Gaia-X with so-called Self-Recommendations (SR) because, in this way, the decentralized-organized data-infrastructure ecosystem Gaia-X can better express its advantages over centralized-organized platform companies
Robots as addressable non-persons: an analysis of categorial work at the boundaries of the social world
No full textPrompted by the material turn in the social sciences and the development of novel interaction technologies, lively debates in social theory have arisen regarding the agency of non-human entities. While these debates primarily involve exchanging theoretical arguments against the background of different theoretical positions, ethnomethodological membership categorization analysis (MCA) provides an empirical approach to questions of non-human agency. The article discusses the debate on non-human agency, demonstrates how MCA can be used to investigate categorial work at the boundaries of the social, and presents the example of an encounter between two museum visitors and a humanoid robot to show how the robot is categorized in a specific way as an ‘addressable non-person.’ In this way, it becomes clear that social-theoretical debates and empirically oriented MCA can mutually inspire each other and how the ‘basic categorization apparatus’ addresses new alterities
Relational Economics in Practice. An Introduction and User Guide
No full textThe LEIZ Relational Economics in Practice case study series is an open-access resource for educators and students of business studies. This offer by the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin (LEIZ) of Zeppelin University in Germany includes cases created by its team of researchers, including professors, postdocs, and PhD candidates. In this introduction and case study guide, Josef Wieland and Julika Baumann Montecinos elaborate on the conceptual foundations and analytical tools to approach the case studies. Grounded on the theory of Relational Economics, the cases provide an opportunity to apply this theory to real-life business challenges, including the step-by-step tool of the Stakeholder Model of Relational Decision Making. The cases in this series follow a structured scheme, including case descriptions, key challenges, core questions, and theoretical discussions based on cutting-edge research. Topics covered address AI implementation, large project management, global organisation and transformation, transcultural learning, and managing transcultural teams
Managing Transcultural Teams
No full textLEIZ Case Study #4 – Managing Transcultural TeamsThis case study focuses on the management of transcultural teams. It describes a situation in which a manager is faced with a high level of cultural complexity in the execution of a project. The case study stimulates the reader to reflect on the trade-off between the innovation potential of diversity and the barriers to collaboration in highly heterogeneous teams. The concepts of the contact hypothesis, communities of practice and transcultural competences are presented as possible theoretical concepts that can be helpful in the search for practical solutions to overcome challenges related to cultural complexity
Post-Publics: Rekonstruktion einer Theorie der Öffentlichkeit
No full textKrisen und Disruptionen in der Gesellschaft – ausgelöst etwa durch die Digitalisierung oder durch soziokulturelle, ökologische und politische Transformationsprozesse – verändern die kommunikative Sphäre der Öffentlichkeit grundlegend. Die Theoriebildung zur Öffentlichkeit reagiert allerdings nur bedingt auf diese Transformationen, was eine valide Analyse ihrer Probleme und Herausforderungen verhindert.Dieses Defizit will Martin R. Herbers mit seiner neuen Theorie der Öffentlichkeit, der „post-publics“, beheben. Diese integriert die disruptiven Transformationen und wendet sich gegen ein Verständnis von Öffentlichkeit als einer statischen Sphäre der Kommunikation. Die Theorie fokussiert Individuen, die mittels mediatisierter Praktiken die Themen ihres persönlichen Interesses veröffentlichen. So entsteht eine Verbindung zwischen der kollektiv orientierten „public sphere“ und den individuell orientierten „post-publics“: die integrative „publicness“. Diese Theorie erlaubt es, disruptive Transformationen der öffentlichen Kommunikation individuell und kollektiv empirisch zu erfassen