Big Tech Sovereigns: CEO Power, Corporate Quasi-Sovereignty, and the Politics of Digital Infrastructure

• In Event: Theorizing Power in Technology

Brief Overview

This project theorizes and empirically analyzes how Big Tech firms exercise sovereign-like power through digital infrastructure, executive autonomy, and global norm-setting, introducing the concept of Corporate Quasi-Sovereignty (CQS).

Authors

• Chee Hae Chung, Purdue University

• Bryce Jensen Dietrich, Purdue University