Digital Economy Lab - LexTech Institute

Digital Economy Lab

The environment of digital technologies has facilitated the development of new types of products and services through the use of mobile technology and the Internet. This phenomenon is the foundation for the digital economy, which is of ever-increasing importance.

Digital platforms allow for a direct and quasi-instantaneous connection between various economic actors. Through online marketplaces, anyone can now offer products or services to the entire world. The traditional relationships between workers or consumers and professionals are thus being blurred, making their legal qualifications uncertain.

An almost state-like relationship has been established between these platforms, which enjoy a dominant position, and their users. This phenomenon requires a redefinition of the social contract and calls for the introduction of a legislative framework in order to protect the interests of all the players of the digital economy.

The rising interconnection between things and the Internet (Internet of Things, IoT; Internet of Entities, IoE) is generating increasing amounts of data that often consist of sensitive personal data. The digital powerhouses at the head of platforms have the capacity to collect massive amounts of personal data which acquire a market value and are at the center of the digital economy. This instrumentalization of personal data challenges the protection of privacy.

Projects

Face to face and digital selection interviews using algorithms

Boosting your organisational performance with an HR analytics platform

Publications

Publications in the field of Law

Guillaume Florence/Mahon Pascal (eds), Le droit à l’intégrité numérique, Basel/Neuchâtel 2021.

Guillaume Florence/Riva Sven, L’atteinte à l’intégrité numérique appréhendée par le droit international privé – La localisation du lieu de l’atteinte à la croisée du monde physique et de l’espace numérique, in: Guillaume Florence/Mahon Pascal (eds), Le droit à l’intégrité numérique, Basel/Neuchâtel 2021, p. 117-180.

Dunand Jean-Philippe/Dupont Anne-Sylvie/Mahon Pascal (eds), Le droit face à la révolution 4.0, Geneva/Zurich/Basel 2019.

Dunand Jean-Philippe/Mahon Pascal/Witzig Aurélien (eds), La révolution 4.0 au travail – Une approche multidisciplinaire, Geneva/Zurich/Basel 2019.

Guillaume Florence, Le contrat de travail international : règles de droit international privé et plateformes numériques, in: Dunand Jean-Philippe/Mahon Pascal, Les aspects internationaux du droit du travail, Geneva/Zurich/Basel 2019, p. 193-257.

Hug Dario, La protection du consommateur face aux nouvelles technologies de la conclusion et de l’exécution des contrats, in: Carron Blaise/Müller Christoph (eds), 3e Journée des droits de la consommation et de la distribution : Blockchain et smart contracts, défis juridiques, Basel 2018, p. 115-167.

Witzig Aurélien, L’ubérisation du monde du travail – Réponses juridiques à une évolution économique, RDS 2016, p. 457-483.

Publications in the field of Science

Stiefel Léa / Sandoz Alain, Critique de la concentration : une analyse des dépendances sur les plateformes numériques, 2021.

Sandoz Alain, Data management – Transform, integrate, innovate, in: Norer Roland (ed.), Smart Farming : Von Landtechnik bis Big Data. Rechtsfragen einer digitalisierten Landwirtschaft, Zurich/Saint-Gallen 2020, p. 71-82.

Sandoz Alain, Inter-operating Co-opeting Entities – A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Cooperation between Competitors, The Tenth International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology (BUSTECH), 2020.

Publications in the field of Economics and Business

Bergram Kristoffer/Gjerlufsen Toni/ Maingot Paul/Bezençon Valéry/Holzer Adrian, Digital nudges for privacy awareness : from consent to informed consent?, European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS), 2020.

Holzer Adrian/Kocher Bruno/Bendahan Samuel/Vonèche Cardia Isabelle/ Mazuze Jorge/Gillet Denis, Gamifying knowledge sharing in humanitarian organizations, European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), 2020.

Puntiroli Michael/Bezençon Valéry, Feedback devices help only environmentally concerned people act pro-environmentally over time, Journal of Environmental Psychology, vol. 70, 2020, p. 1-14.

Puntiroli Michael/Bezençon Valéry/Pino Giovanni/Lemarie Linda, When technology backfires and when it succeeds: Positive and negative effects of eco-efficient automation on consumers’ choices, ACR North American Conference, Atlanta, 17 October 2019.

Publications in the field of Social Sciences

Balsiger Philip/Jammet Thomas/Cianferoni Nicola/Surdez Muriel, Coping with digital market re-organization : How the hotel industry strategically responds to digital platform power, SocArXiv, 2021.

Stiefel Léa/Sandoz Alain, Critique de la concentration : une analyse des dépendances sur les plateformes numériques, 2021.

Muralidhar Skanda/Kleinlogel Emmanuelle Patricia/Mayor Eric/ Bangerter Adrian/Mast Marianne Schmid/Gatica-Perez Daniel, Understanding applicants’ reactions to asynchronous video – Interview through self-reports and nonverbal cues, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2020, p. 566-574.