| Speaker | Prof. Martin Kenney |
|---|---|
| Time | April 26, 2016 6pm - 8:00pm (Doors open at 5:40pm) |
| Venue | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 3rd Floor Meeting Room 3C *Venue has changed. (ACCESS) |
| Sponsor | GRIPS Innovation, Science and Technology Policy Program (GIST) |
| Language | English |
| Fee | Free (Pre-registraion required) |
| Document | Presentation Slides (4.0M) |
This paper suggests that we are in a period of fundamental changes in the organization of economic and social activities driven by the emergence of cloud computing, increasing power of algorithms, and analysis of big data. Boosters of these changes have suggested that a "Sharing" or "Collaborative" Economy will result, while others less convinced of its beneficence of the changes have suggested that instead what is emerging is a Gig Economy replete with a new Precariat. We, on the other hand, believe the organizing feature of these changes are online digital platforms.
Digital platforms such as Google Android Play, Apple App store, Uber, Airbnb, YouTube, and others are having an increasingly powerful impact on the ways in which people interact, the nature of work, commerce, and, perhaps, in the longer term, even the structure of the economy. I present a comprehensive overview of the various types of online digital platforms that have emerged and examine various implications of each them. Digital platforms are diverse in function and structure. However, their fundamental feature is that they provide significant power to the platform owner.
| 2007-2008 | Visiting Scholar Asia Pacific Research Center Stanford University |
| 2000 May-June | Arthur Andersen, Distinguished Visitor Judge Institute of Management Studies Cambridge University |
| 1995 Oct.-Dec. | Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies Kobe University, Kobe, Japan |
| 1995 Aug.-Sept. | Visiting Professor, Institute of Work Sociology Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1994 Oct.-Dec. | Visiting Professor, Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1993 Oct.-Dec. | Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan |
| 1992- | Professor |
| 1991-92 | Associate Chairman |
| 1989-92 | Associate Professor, Department of Human and Community Development University of California, Davis |
| 1989-90 | Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University |
| 1988-89 | Visiting Professor, Institute of Business Research Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1984-89 | Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio |
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