Governments around the world have embraced Open Government Data (OGD) with great enthusiasm. The logic is simple and seductive: release government data in open, reusable formats, and society will respond with transparency, innovation, economic growth, and better public services. Yet after more than a decade of OGD initiatives, a nagging...

Imagine an organization spending millions on a cutting-edge data science model that demonstrably outperforms existing systems yet business leaders refuse to use it. This is not a hypothetical failure. It is exactly what happened in one of the two case studies analyzed by researchers Paul Brous and Marijn Janssen in their landmark 2020...