Information infrastructures of businesses and government are increasingly interwoven. The development of these information infrastructures often has a technological focus and the concurrent social innovation is ill understood. To address this gap, we study public–private information infrastructure developments at three layers over a prolonged period of time. Stakeholders have to alter existing ...

Natural disasters can have a devastating effect on critical infrastructures, especially in case of cascading effects among multiple infrastructures such as the electric power grid, the communication network, and the road network. While there exist detailed models for individual types of infrastructures such as electric power grids, these do not encompass the various interconnections and interde...

Abstract In the past years, increasingly restrictive migration policies have pushed many migrants to seek new and more risky routes. Many studies investigated aspects of social protection for from Global South in industrialized countries North, with powerful welfare states. Yet, such focus has failed understand complexities during process, where people often spend uncertain periods time transit...

How do complex societal demands and time constraints posed by distributed temporary organizing affect organizational communication? Extending Bowker and Star’s (2002) work on infrastructures, we introduce two context-specific ‘invisible’, social infrastructures: organizational and relational. We empirically assess their role in an international, multi-site ERP-software implementation. We invest...

We live in an increasingly interconnected world of techno-social systems, in which infrastructures composed of different technological layers are interoperating within the social component that drives their use and development. Examples are provided by the Internet, the World Wide Web, WiFi communication technologies, and transportation and mobility infrastructures. The multiscale nature and co...