Three Different Ways to Skin a Cat: Financialization in the Emergence of National e-ID Solutions
研究了丹麦、挪威和瑞典三国国家电子身份证解决方案的兴起过程，分析了金融部门与公共部门互动如何导致不同治理方案的出现，对理解金融化在信息技术政策中的作用有参考价值。
The growing phenomenon of financialization influences an array of societal dimensions that go beyond the economic realm, to include public policy-making and information technology (IT). This study presents a cross-country analysis of the emergence of national electronic identification (e-ID) solutions as the result of interaction between the financial and the public sector in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Drawing on on-line sources, documents, and interviews with key actors in the three cases, we adopt a cross-disciplinary perspective by applying the lens of collective action theory to identify the role of interests, resources, and governance in the emergence of national e-ID solutions. Findings show that different governance solutions can emerge as the result of the convergence of interests and of interdependency of resources between the actors over time. We contribute to research on financialization and IT by proposing a dialectic process model and identifying five mechanisms that drive the process forward.