Research
My research connects questions about platforms, payments and emerging technologies with firms' strategic decisions.
Platforms & ecosystems
How do established companies build and govern platforms? My work examines platform openness, the integration of multiple platforms and the transformation of business ecosystems.
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Payments & digital finance
Payment systems depend on coordination between interdependent stakeholders of complex ecosystems. My work examines how the relationships, competing interests and technology choices of these stakeholders influence the development of payment systems.
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Emerging technologies
From technology foresight methods to the metaverse, this work examines emerging technologies while their business implications are still uncertain.
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Technology & society
I also study how people use digital technologies to act together or to socially withdraw: scambaiting and cyber vigilantism, climate activism on social media, and social withdrawal (hikikomori) in Japan.
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Applied research
ESSEC Digital Disruption Chair
The ESSEC Digital Disruption Chair extends this work into company projects on frontier technologies and their business applications. Its Digital Disruption Matrix is an important piece of work that aims at capturing signals of disruption across technologies and sectors, drawing on quantitative data, expert interviews and a professional survey.
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