About me:

Dr Will Venters is an Associate Professor in Information Systems and Digital Innovation within the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He speaks regularly at practitioner conferences on various digital business issues, particularly around Digital Ecosystems, Digital Innovation and Cloud Computing; has briefed European government policy makers and… Read more »

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  • Free Workshop on APIs and Digital Ecosystems at ICIS 2024

    While very last minute we would like to invite anyone interested in Interfaces, APIs, the API Economy and boundary resources role in Digital Innovations Ecosystems to come to a relaxed round-table event from 2pm-4pm on Saturday 14th December at the ICIS conference 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. https://icis2024.aisconferences.org/ The aim will be to build a community of […]

  • LSE ISIG is hosting OAP Organizations, Artifacts & Practices [6-7 June 2025].

    The CFP of the 15th OAP Workshop is out! This year’s theme: “Ordinary Democracy in the Making: Renewing Our Times and Spaces of Democratic Representation in and through Organization”. One theme I am personally particularly keen to see explored in the conference is governance arrangements for digital infrastructure and how “democratic” they are (or are […]

  • LSE Hiring Assistant Professor in Digital Innovation

    Even with two new people just starting as asssitant professors we are contining to recruit to our group! Please circulate! JOB ADVERT TEXT: Assistant Professor in Management (Information Systems and Innovation) LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university  For this post, we welcome applications from women and people from minority […]

  • LSE Information Systems and Innovation Group Colloquium 2024.

    4th June – LSE Colloquium on Digitalization, Interfacing and their Impacts. Free academic event.

  • [Assistant Professor Job] We’re recruiting again!

    Having successfully just recruited two amazing new Assistant Professors to the Information Systems and Innovation Group here at the LSE we are seeking a third person to join! The advert is below but feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions! Also you’ll get to work in our brand new building […]

  • Join me in Chicago for the AOM CTO Doctorial Consortium [PhD Students].

    Join me in Chicago for AOM CTOs Doctorial Consortium!

  • New Publication – Research Policy: The role of Web APIs in digital innovation ecosystems.

    appy to share that our paper “The value and structuring role of web APIs in digital innovation ecosystems: The case of the online travel ecosystem” co-authored with Roser Pujadas and Erika Valderrama has been published in Research Policy

  • New research publication: Does proximity matter in cloud adoption?

    I am pleased that my jointly authored paper that asks does proximity matter in cloud adoption? has now been published in the prestigious Journal of Information Technology.   Distant but close: Locational, relational and temporal proximity in cloud computing adoption – Ariana Polyviou, Will Venters, Nancy Pouloudi, 2023 (sagepub.com) Journal of Information Technology, Forthcoming.   For researchers […]

  • [Academic Call]: AI and the Artificialities of Intelligence.

    I am really excited to be a co-chair of the following academic workshop at ESSEC & Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. Please join us if you can! AI and the Artificialities of Intelligence: What matters in and for organizing? Call for papers 14th Organizations, Artifacts & Practices (OAP) Workshop #OAP2024 When: June 6th and 7th 2024 Where: […]

  • Understanding AI and Large Language Models: Spiders Webs and LSD.

    The following light-hearted script was for an evening talk at the London Stock Exchange for Enterprise Technology Meetup in June 2023. The speech is based on research with Dr Roser Pujadas of UCL and Dr Erika Valderamma of UMEA in Sweden. —– Last Tuesday the news went wild as industry and AI leaders warned that […]