Cristina ALAIMO

Associate Professor
department: Information Systems, Data Analytics and Operations
Campus de Cergy
Management of Information Systems – Organizational Theory
Career
Biography

Cristina Alaimo is Associate Professor at ESSEC Business School (France). She previously held faculty positions at LUISS University (Rome) and Surrey Business School (UK). She earned her PhD in Management, Information Systems, and Innovation from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her research investigates how data-based services, digital platforms, and AI-driven systems reshape markets, organizations, and society. At the core of her work is a theory of data as a cognitive, economic and organizational artifact, examining how data are produced, structured, exchanged, and made valuable within organizations and across ecosystems of firms. Her research demonstrates how data rules shape the emergence and evolution of platform ecosystems, with significant implications for governance, organizational coordination, and societal outcomes.

Her work has been published in leading journals including Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, The Information Society, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. She is co-author (with Jannis Kallinikos) of Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy (MIT Press, 2024), winner of the EGOS Book Award 2025.

Cristina serves as Senior Editor at Organization Studies and the European Journal of Information Systems, and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Management Information Systems. In 2025, she was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list, recognizing scholars with the potential to shape the future of management theory and practice.

Diplomas

  • 2014: Doctor in Management, Information Systems and Innovation (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom)
Career
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2024 – Now : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2020 – 2024 : Assistant Professor (Luiss University Italy)
    • 2017 – 2020 : Assistant Professor (University of Surrey United Kingdom)
    • 2014 – 2017 : Post-Doctorate (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom)
Distinctions

Awards

  • 2025 : EGOS (EGOS – European Group for Organizational Studies)
  • 2025 : Thinkers50 Radar List 2025 (United Kingdom)
Research

Journal articles

Book chapters

Teaching

Thesis co-director

  • Now : Weaving AI into Society: The Co-Evolution of Artificial Intelligence and the social fabric of organizations (Luiss University Italy)

Thesis jury member

  • 2024 : Data spaces and the (trans)formations of data innovation and governance (University of Agder Norway)
Other activities
Research activities
  • Senior or Associate Editor
    • 2025 – Now: Senior Editor of Organization Studies
    • 2024 – Now: Senior Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems
  • Editorial Board Membership
    • 2025 – Now: Member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Management Information Systems
    • 2022 – 2024: Member of the Editorial Review Board of Organization Studies
Theses
  • – : DI PRISCO D. (Luiss University), Thesis co-director, Weaving AI into Society: The Co-Evolution of Artificial Intelligence and the social fabric of organizations
  • – : DUX N. (Luiss University), Thesis director, Linking open innovation mechanisms for environmental sustainably goals
  • 2024 : PAPAROVA D. (University of Agder), Thesis jury member, Data spaces and the (trans)formations of data innovation and governance
  • – : POLITO C. (Luiss University), Thesis director, The Race for AI Dominance: Effects on African Cybersecurity