UNDERSTANDING THE RELATION BETWEEN INTEROPERABILITY AND DATA QUALITY: A STUDY OF DATA HUB DEVELOPMENT IN SWEDISH ELECTRICITY MARKET
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What makes this digital age so interesting is the prevalence of data and how it could be utilised, processed and made interoperable to create new businesses or to revolutionise old ones. Data quality, or lack thereof, is widely considered one of the most critical problems for achieving interoperability. To achieve high interoperability, such as the Swedish electricity market data hub, data hub development needs to better comprehend the relation between interoperability and data quality. Thus, this study inquired how the relation between interoperability and data quality can be understood. A qualitative study with a deductive approach was chosen for this purpose, as this enabled deeper understanding. The chosen theory formed the basis for the analytical framework. Seven deep interviews with actors in the Swedish electricity market provided empirical data. The results demonstrated that interoperability and data quality possess a make-or-break relationship. Consequently, the understanding is that high data quality is capable of decreasing complexity in a development process and increasing its reliability.
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