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From Integration to Data Sharing - How Developers Subvert the Public Sector

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This paper explores how organizations expand data-sharing capabilities beyond the loci of emergence. This inquiry was ignited from an observation that external developer practices had subverted a public sector organization into developing transformational data-sharing capabilities that effectively replaced existing integration practices within the agency. To detail and explain how the administration was able to draw on the practices and platforms established for an external context in an organizational (internal) context, we analyzed our empirical dataset using dynamic capabilities theory. By unpacking enabling microfoundations and overarching capabilities, we could explain our observations and put forward six microfoundations that underpin three data-sharing capabilities.

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    In framing this concept, we took inspiration from the ecosystem carryover [40] concept. However, while the original concept concerned utilizing existing ecosystems in new contexts, in our case it was the underlying logics that was replicated.

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  2. The Swedish National Road and Transport Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Daniel Rudmark

  3. The Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  5. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Rudmark, D., Molin, A. (2023). From Integration to Data Sharing - How Developers Subvert the Public Sector. In: Edelmann, N., Danneels, L., Novak, AS., Panagiotopoulos, P., Susha, I. (eds) Electronic Participation. ePart 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14153. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41617-0_9

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