Susi Geiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susi Geiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susi |
| FAMILY NAME | Geiger |
| SIGNATURE | GEIGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
At the Crossroads of Data Justice and Data Capitalism: How Generative AI in Healthcare Mobilises Its Assemblages
Algorithmic technologies such as machine learning, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and automated decision‐making have become one of the frontiers of contemporary technoscientific innovation in healthcare. However, algorithmic technologies can never be seen in isolation from the networks in which they are embedded. Not only are they woven into situated sociotechnical assemblages of human and nonhuman entities—tools, objects and other te…
Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action
Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization a…
The Demise of a Rising Social Enterprise for Persons With Disabilities: The Ethics and the Uncertainty of Pure Effectual Logic When Scaling Up
Tech sharing, not tech hoarding: Covid-19, global solidarity, and the failed responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health technologies to mitigate against the spread of the disease and improve care, dominantly including life-saving vaccines. But the pandemic has also highlighted that the current biopharmaceutical business model, based on the enclosure of these technologies and on the immense accumulation of capital it enables, leads to vast inequalities in healthcare particularly in low and middle-income…
Emplaced Partnerships and the Ethics of Care, Recognition and Resilience
The aim of the SI is to bring to the fore the places in which cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) are formed; how place shapes the dynamics of CSPs, and how CSPs shape the specific settings in which they develop. The papers demonstrate that partnerships and place are intrinsically reciprocal: the morality and materiality inherent in places repeatedly reset the reference points for partners, trigger epiphanies, shift identities, and redistribute capa…
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
Silicon Valley, disruption, and the end of uncertainty
This paper reflects on the relationship between high-tech disruption narratives and uncertainty. My main argument is that an economic sociology of the future is incomplete without addressing the ‘demonic’ or rather eschatological elements apparent in the promissory twin rhetoric of disruption and inevitability that a number of contemporary technology firms employ. The conjuring up of liberatory high-tech futures implicates a political-philosophic…
Market Failures and Market Framings: Can a market be transformed from the inside
How do actors innovate markets in cases of perceived market failures? This paper's aim is to examine what happens when a market is innovated or, as we call it, 'redevised' in situations where public and commercial interests significantly diverge. Market devices can serve an important function in such attempts to innovate markets: they are material and/or social arrangements that are put into place to shape the market in question in certain ways. …
Promissories and pharmaceutical patents: Agencing Markets Through Public Narratives
We investigate a body of data emanating from the 2008/2009 EU Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry, interpreting the collection of submissions to it as a concerted attempt at market innovation that becomes fraught with challenge and contest. In the pharmaceutical market, interests associated with patient concerns, government budgets, global “Big Pharma,” and local “small pharma” coalesce and compete with patent law, technological innovation and drug lif…
Shaping exchanges, building markets
This article provides a conceptual overview of theoretical approaches to the study of markets from across social science disciplines. These approaches are arranged according to the dimensions of socialization and materialization. While necessarily simplistic and non-exhaustive, such arrangement drives out some of the strengths and weaknesses of the frameworks considered. Particular attention is given to the emerging markets-as-practice approach, …
Markets are trading zones
This chapter applies the concept of the trading zone to markets. It does so in order to highlight the multiple material, linguistic, and interpretative dimensions of actors' organizing, trading, buying, and selling work, which they normally undertake to secure an exchange. The trading zones also highlight the multiple areas of conflict, miscomprehension, or incommensurability that may arise between buyers and sellers in markets. Drawing on extant…
Rhetoric versus Reality: Exploring Consumer Empowerment in a Maternity Setting
This study explores consumer empowerment in a maternity setting in the Republic of Ireland. Our results indicate that empowerment is a complex phenomenon influenced by many variables. While the current health services literature is focusing on active consumers of health services, our study shows that not all pregnant women have the same needs for and attitudes toward empowerment: some women do indeed seek to be overtly empowered in the maternity …
Silicon Valley, disruption, and the end of uncertainty
This paper reflects on the relationship between high-tech disruption narratives and uncertainty. My main argument is that an economic sociology of the future is incomplete without addressing the ‘demonic’ or rather eschatological elements apparent in the promissory twin rhetoric of disruption and inevitability that a number of contemporary technology firms employ. The conjuring up of liberatory high-tech futures implicates a political-philosophic…
Market Failures and Market Framings: Can a market be transformed from the inside
How do actors innovate markets in cases of perceived market failures? This paper's aim is to examine what happens when a market is innovated or, as we call it, 'redevised' in situations where public and commercial interests significantly diverge. Market devices can serve an important function in such attempts to innovate markets: they are material and/or social arrangements that are put into place to shape the market in question in certain ways. …
Shaping exchanges, building markets
This article provides a conceptual overview of theoretical approaches to the study of markets from across social science disciplines. These approaches are arranged according to the dimensions of socialization and materialization. While necessarily simplistic and non-exhaustive, such arrangement drives out some of the strengths and weaknesses of the frameworks considered. Particular attention is given to the emerging markets-as-practice approach, …
Promissories and pharmaceutical patents: Agencing Markets Through Public Narratives
We investigate a body of data emanating from the 2008/2009 EU Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry, interpreting the collection of submissions to it as a concerted attempt at market innovation that becomes fraught with challenge and contest. In the pharmaceutical market, interests associated with patient concerns, government budgets, global “Big Pharma,” and local “small pharma” coalesce and compete with patent law, technological innovation and drug lif…
Rhetoric versus Reality: Exploring Consumer Empowerment in a Maternity Setting
This study explores consumer empowerment in a maternity setting in the Republic of Ireland. Our results indicate that empowerment is a complex phenomenon influenced by many variables. While the current health services literature is focusing on active consumers of health services, our study shows that not all pregnant women have the same needs for and attitudes toward empowerment: some women do indeed seek to be overtly empowered in the maternity …
Rhetoric versus Reality: Exploring Consumer Empowerment in a Maternity Setting
This study explores consumer empowerment in a maternity setting in the Republic of Ireland. Our results indicate that empowerment is a complex phenomenon influenced by many variables. While the current health services literature is focusing on active consumers of health services, our study shows that not all pregnant women have the same needs for and attitudes toward empowerment: some women do indeed seek to be overtly empowered in the maternity …
Markets are trading zones
This chapter applies the concept of the trading zone to markets. It does so in order to highlight the multiple material, linguistic, and interpretative dimensions of actors' organizing, trading, buying, and selling work, which they normally undertake to secure an exchange. The trading zones also highlight the multiple areas of conflict, miscomprehension, or incommensurability that may arise between buyers and sellers in markets. Drawing on extant…
Shaping exchanges, building markets
This article provides a conceptual overview of theoretical approaches to the study of markets from across social science disciplines. These approaches are arranged according to the dimensions of socialization and materialization. While necessarily simplistic and non-exhaustive, such arrangement drives out some of the strengths and weaknesses of the frameworks considered. Particular attention is given to the emerging markets-as-practice approach, …
Promissories and pharmaceutical patents: Agencing Markets Through Public Narratives
We investigate a body of data emanating from the 2008/2009 EU Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry, interpreting the collection of submissions to it as a concerted attempt at market innovation that becomes fraught with challenge and contest. In the pharmaceutical market, interests associated with patient concerns, government budgets, global “Big Pharma,” and local “small pharma” coalesce and compete with patent law, technological innovation and drug lif…
Market Failures and Market Framings: Can a market be transformed from the inside
How do actors innovate markets in cases of perceived market failures? This paper's aim is to examine what happens when a market is innovated or, as we call it, 'redevised' in situations where public and commercial interests significantly diverge. Market devices can serve an important function in such attempts to innovate markets: they are material and/or social arrangements that are put into place to shape the market in question in certain ways. …
Silicon Valley, disruption, and the end of uncertainty
This paper reflects on the relationship between high-tech disruption narratives and uncertainty. My main argument is that an economic sociology of the future is incomplete without addressing the ‘demonic’ or rather eschatological elements apparent in the promissory twin rhetoric of disruption and inevitability that a number of contemporary technology firms employ. The conjuring up of liberatory high-tech futures implicates a political-philosophic…
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
Emplaced Partnerships and the Ethics of Care, Recognition and Resilience
The aim of the SI is to bring to the fore the places in which cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) are formed; how place shapes the dynamics of CSPs, and how CSPs shape the specific settings in which they develop. The papers demonstrate that partnerships and place are intrinsically reciprocal: the morality and materiality inherent in places repeatedly reset the reference points for partners, trigger epiphanies, shift identities, and redistribute capa…
Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action
Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization a…
The Demise of a Rising Social Enterprise for Persons With Disabilities: The Ethics and the Uncertainty of Pure Effectual Logic When Scaling Up
Tech sharing, not tech hoarding: Covid-19, global solidarity, and the failed responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health technologies to mitigate against the spread of the disease and improve care, dominantly including life-saving vaccines. But the pandemic has also highlighted that the current biopharmaceutical business model, based on the enclosure of these technologies and on the immense accumulation of capital it enables, leads to vast inequalities in healthcare particularly in low and middle-income…
At the Crossroads of Data Justice and Data Capitalism: How Generative AI in Healthcare Mobilises Its Assemblages
Algorithmic technologies such as machine learning, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and automated decision‐making have become one of the frontiers of contemporary technoscientific innovation in healthcare. However, algorithmic technologies can never be seen in isolation from the networks in which they are embedded. Not only are they woven into situated sociotechnical assemblages of human and nonhuman entities—tools, objects and other te…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Market economy (3 works)