Tobias Mettler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Mettler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Mettler |
| SIGNATURE | METTLER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7895-7545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bending or Bowing to the Rules? A Thought Experiment on Tech Firms' Responses to Misaligned Policy Goals and Legal Constraints
This paper examines the tension that emerges when policy objectives and regulatory requirements are misaligned. While legislation sets enforceable legal boundaries, policies often offer incentives with less legal force. Through a thought experiment, we investigate whether profit-driven tech firms adhere strictly to legal requirements or pursue financial gains despite potential penalties. Our findings challenge the simplistic assumption that the t…
Same same but different
The digital transformation (DT) is not only forcing companies to rethink their business models but is also challenging governments to address the question of how information technology will change society today and in the future. By setting the legal boundaries and acting as an investor and promoter of the domestic digital economy, governments actively influence in which ways this transformational process takes place. The vision and objectives ho…
Is altruism dead? A critical case study on the paradigm shift in Open Government Data
The broad and continued success of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) has helped to spread its ideology to many other domains, including Open Government Data (OGD), which has recently gained prominence due to its potential for feeding algorithms. Despite the anti-market and anti-corporation values around free sharing, citizen participation, and unrestricted transparency propagated in particular by a highly idealized academic discourse on…
The role of trust in the adoption of cooperative arrangement types in e-credentials markets
The interest in digital identities has increased considerably in academia and practice in recent years. This can be seen by the many electronic identity projects worldwide and the numerous published studies that provide insightful narratives and descriptive case findings about success factors and barriers to the adoption of national authentication infrastructures. In this paper, we take a closer look to the role of trust on the design and impleme…
Strategically constructed narratives on artificial intelligence
What stories are told in national artificial intelligence (AI) policies? Combining the novel technique of structural topic modeling (STM) and qualitative narrative analysis, this paper examines the policy narratives in 33 countries’ AI policies. We uncover six common narratives that are dominating the political agenda concerning AI. Our findings show that the policy narratives' saliences vary across time and countries. We make several contributio…
The effects of open government data
There is a general expectation that open government data (OGD) can lead to the generation of value for government, business, and society. However, there appears to be a lack of scholarly literature that empirically validates what this value is or how it emerges. This paper addresses this concern by exploring what empirical evidence currently exists about the effects stemming from OGD in the case literature. Through the use of a literature review,…
Technological frames in public administration
Being among the largest creators and gatherers of data in many countries, public administrations are looking for ways to harness big data technology. However, the de facto uses of big data in the public sector remain very limited. Despite numerous studies aiming to clarify the term big data, for many public managers, it remains unclear what this technology does and does not offer public administration. Using the concept of technological frames, w…
Transdisciplinary and Transformative Research at the Intersection between Management, Healthcare, and Innovation
The vision of the Competence Center Health Network Engineering is to support the public and private stakeholders of healthcare by means of practical and forward-looking artifacts. Transdisciplinary research approaches, such as the innovative inclusion of very diverse individuals and groups of this domain, helps us to innovate our environment
Technological frames in public administration
Being among the largest creators and gatherers of data in many countries, public administrations are looking for ways to harness big data technology. However, the de facto uses of big data in the public sector remain very limited. Despite numerous studies aiming to clarify the term big data, for many public managers, it remains unclear what this technology does and does not offer public administration. Using the concept of technological frames, w…
Strategically constructed narratives on artificial intelligence
What stories are told in national artificial intelligence (AI) policies? Combining the novel technique of structural topic modeling (STM) and qualitative narrative analysis, this paper examines the policy narratives in 33 countries’ AI policies. We uncover six common narratives that are dominating the political agenda concerning AI. Our findings show that the policy narratives' saliences vary across time and countries. We make several contributio…
The effects of open government data
There is a general expectation that open government data (OGD) can lead to the generation of value for government, business, and society. However, there appears to be a lack of scholarly literature that empirically validates what this value is or how it emerges. This paper addresses this concern by exploring what empirical evidence currently exists about the effects stemming from OGD in the case literature. Through the use of a literature review,…
Same same but different
The digital transformation (DT) is not only forcing companies to rethink their business models but is also challenging governments to address the question of how information technology will change society today and in the future. By setting the legal boundaries and acting as an investor and promoter of the domestic digital economy, governments actively influence in which ways this transformational process takes place. The vision and objectives ho…
Transdisciplinary and Transformative Research at the Intersection between Management, Healthcare, and Innovation
The vision of the Competence Center Health Network Engineering is to support the public and private stakeholders of healthcare by means of practical and forward-looking artifacts. Transdisciplinary research approaches, such as the innovative inclusion of very diverse individuals and groups of this domain, helps us to innovate our environment
Technological frames in public administration
Being among the largest creators and gatherers of data in many countries, public administrations are looking for ways to harness big data technology. However, the de facto uses of big data in the public sector remain very limited. Despite numerous studies aiming to clarify the term big data, for many public managers, it remains unclear what this technology does and does not offer public administration. Using the concept of technological frames, w…
The effects of open government data
There is a general expectation that open government data (OGD) can lead to the generation of value for government, business, and society. However, there appears to be a lack of scholarly literature that empirically validates what this value is or how it emerges. This paper addresses this concern by exploring what empirical evidence currently exists about the effects stemming from OGD in the case literature. Through the use of a literature review,…
The role of trust in the adoption of cooperative arrangement types in e-credentials markets
The interest in digital identities has increased considerably in academia and practice in recent years. This can be seen by the many electronic identity projects worldwide and the numerous published studies that provide insightful narratives and descriptive case findings about success factors and barriers to the adoption of national authentication infrastructures. In this paper, we take a closer look to the role of trust on the design and impleme…
Strategically constructed narratives on artificial intelligence
What stories are told in national artificial intelligence (AI) policies? Combining the novel technique of structural topic modeling (STM) and qualitative narrative analysis, this paper examines the policy narratives in 33 countries’ AI policies. We uncover six common narratives that are dominating the political agenda concerning AI. Our findings show that the policy narratives' saliences vary across time and countries. We make several contributio…
Is altruism dead? A critical case study on the paradigm shift in Open Government Data
The broad and continued success of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) has helped to spread its ideology to many other domains, including Open Government Data (OGD), which has recently gained prominence due to its potential for feeding algorithms. Despite the anti-market and anti-corporation values around free sharing, citizen participation, and unrestricted transparency propagated in particular by a highly idealized academic discourse on…
Same same but different
The digital transformation (DT) is not only forcing companies to rethink their business models but is also challenging governments to address the question of how information technology will change society today and in the future. By setting the legal boundaries and acting as an investor and promoter of the domestic digital economy, governments actively influence in which ways this transformational process takes place. The vision and objectives ho…
Bending or Bowing to the Rules? A Thought Experiment on Tech Firms' Responses to Misaligned Policy Goals and Legal Constraints
This paper examines the tension that emerges when policy objectives and regulatory requirements are misaligned. While legislation sets enforceable legal boundaries, policies often offer incentives with less legal force. Through a thought experiment, we investigate whether profit-driven tech firms adhere strictly to legal requirements or pursue financial gains despite potential penalties. Our findings challenge the simplistic assumption that the t…
Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · E-Government and Public Services (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works)