Abstract Institutional investors expect infrastructure to deliver long-term stable returns but gain exposure predominantly through finite-horizon closed private funds. The cash flows delivered by funds display similar volatility and cyclicality as other equity investments, their performance similarly depends on quick deal exits. Despite weak risk-adjusted failure match the supposed characterist...

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By bringing together science studies, information science and ethnographic fieldwork in interdisciplinary research the author argues for the relevance of ethnographic practices when studying information systems as infrastructures of communication. Ethnographic fieldwork focuses attention on fringes and materialities of infrastructures and renders the researcher able to read the invisible layers...