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Aleksi Aaltonen

How to Avoid Authorship Order Disputes in Academic Publishing?

Disputes over the authorship order in soon-to-be-published papers are probably the most pointless fights that can ruin your career.

Jul 5

How to Avoid Authorship Order Disputes in Academic Publishing?

Jul 5

On the Importance (and Dangers) of Powerful Simplifications

Business school academics sell ideas on how to manage things better. These often come in the form of what I call a powerful simplification.

Jun 2

On the Importance (and Dangers) of Powerful Simplifications

Jun 2

I Do Better Research than You — On Respect and Disagreement in Academia

Knowledge grows when we disagree with each other and, in this sense, functioning academia is an institutionalized disagreement.

Apr 19

I Do Better Research than You — On Respect and Disagreement in Academia

Apr 19

What Makes a Good Hypothesis?

Some lessons learned about the important role of hypotheses in a research paper.

Mar 13

What Makes a Good Hypothesis?

Mar 13

Data-driven, Data-based or Data Innovation?

I offer a simple typology for thinking clearly about different types of innovation related to data.

Feb 12

Data-driven, Data-based or Data Innovation?

Feb 12

All Data Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful

The price of better data is increasing complexity, yet we can use more powerful information systems to contain the complexity.

Jan 18

All Data Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful

Jan 18

NYT vs OpenAI and Microsoft: Three Scenarios with a Big Impact on Our Digital Environment

Systematically harvesting millions of copyrighted documents and using them to build a competing product cannot be fair use, or can it?

Jan 3

NYT vs OpenAI and Microsoft: Three Scenarios with a Big Impact on Our Digital Environment

Jan 3

Algorithms, Humans, and the Duality of Data–A Futile Attempt to Define IS Phenomena

My PhD supervisor Jannis Kallinikos once said that a field of research is defined by the phenomenon it studies, while an academic…

Aug 31, 2023

Algorithms, Humans, and the Duality of Data–A Futile Attempt to Define IS Phenomena

Aug 31, 2023

Social Media Was Consuming Me — But I Took Back Control!

Twitter and LinkedIn are useful tools for supporting your academic career, but avoid being drawn into the algorithmic games of Facebook.

Jan 26, 2022

Social Media Was Consuming Me — But I Took Back Control!

Jan 26, 2022

How to Count the Review Rounds in a Peer-review Process?

Confused how to communicate the status of your manuscript submitted to a peer-reviewed journal exactly? Here is how!

Jan 10, 2022

How to Count the Review Rounds in a Peer-review Process?

Jan 10, 2022

Aleksi Aaltonen

Aleksi Aaltonen

I am a management scholar and thinker who writes about data and the production of academic knowledge — www.aleksi.info

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