Societal Impacts of Digital Transformation

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Digital transformation refers to the widespread integration of digital technologies into almost all aspects of organizational and social interaction. This phenomenon has engendered a wide variety of new markets, ways of organizing, mechanisms for the delivery of goods and services, and modes of interpersonal exchange. In so doing, it has simultaneously engendered novel challenges to prevailing business models, organizational routines, foundational assumptions of social interaction, and traditional ethical frameworks. This doctoral seminar course explores the societal impacts engendered by the phenomenon of digital transformation. The course places a special emphasis on the implications for three facets of social interaction: (1) organizing and organizational forms, (2) consumer markets and experiences, and (3) interpersonal dynamics.