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Brink, Henning, et al.
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Analyzing Barriers to Digital Transformation in the German Engineering Industry : A Comparison of Digitalized and Non-Digitalized Enterprises
2022
In: Proeccedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. - 9780998133157 ; , s. 4849-4858
Conference paper (peer-reviewed) abstract
The German engineering sector is one of the most prominent industries in Germany in terms of revenues, the number of employees, and reputation for the “Made in Germany” brand. In this industry, digital transformation (DT) has become a significant trend. DT is more than optimizing internal processes by digital means. It entails the offer of digital services and products and the enhancement of customer experience. Complex barriers need to be overcome to drive this transformation forward. Therefore, our study analysis the organizational barriers to DT within the German engineering industry. We follow a quantitative approach to gain insight on organizational barriers by a comparison of digitalized and less digitalized enterprises and their DTs. Our research demonstrates that digitalized enterprises perceive lower degrees of certain barriers in leadership, culture, employees, and skills, which are essential parts in a socio-technical view. However, there are still barriers that digitalized enterprises are struggling with.
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Brink, Henning, et al.
(author)
Extending a Socio-Technical Model of the Barriers to Digital Transformation Through Data Triangulation
2022
In: 8th International Conference on Information Management (ICIM). - 9781665451741 ; , s. 68-74
Conference paper (peer-reviewed) abstract
Digital Transformation is one of the megatrends to re-shape industries, non-profit sectors, higher education, and even societies. Digital technologies merge with physical production processes provoking changes in value creation processes. These changes may lead to positive effects such as more effectiveness, revised business models, and closer customer contact. However, there are also negative effects hindering the digital transformation journey. As many firms still struggle, it is essential to understand the barriers which slow down or even stop a digital transformation. Based on qualitative data from 525 respondents working in different sectors, we reevaluate and extend an existing model by using a triangulation approach. The result is a holistic socio-technical model of the barriers to digital transformation consisting of seven distinct dimensions. The model can serve as input for future research instruments. Firms can use it to reflect barriers in their digital transformation.
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Broberg, Hanna, 1979-
(author)
DEVIS: Design av verksamhetsstödjande IT-system : En designteori och metod
2009
Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic) abstract
Det finns IT-system i verksamheter som inte är verksamhetsstödjande. Dessa ITsystem fungerar mer som hinder än stöd för personalen i utförande av arbetet. Det finns därmed behov av utveckling av IT-system så att de blir verksamhetsstödjande. Denna forsknings förslag är att denna utveckling bör ske med en designteori och metod. Designteorin och metoden har konstruerats genom en eklektisk och kumulativ kunskapsutveckling. Teoretiska komponenter från designteorierna handlingsbarhetsteori och aktivitetsteori har integrerats till en designteori för verksamhetsstödjande IT-system. Metodkomponenter från metoder för verksamhetsutveckling, systemutveckling och utvärdering baserade på handlingsbarhetsteori eller aktivitetsteori har integrerats till en metod för utveckling av verksamhetsstödjande IT-system. Designteorin och metoden har validerats empiriskt genom tillämpning i tre olika utvecklingsprojekt, vilka har studerats. Resultatet och kunskapsbidraget är ett förslag på en designteori och metod för design av verksamhetsstödjande IT-system, DEVIS. Designteorin beskriver och förklarar IT-system, verksamheter och deras relationer och innehåller designprinciper som föreskriver hur verksamhetsstödjande IT-system bör utvecklas. Metoden kan användas för både nyutveckling och vidareutveckling av IT-system och verksamheter och innehåller en arbetsprocess med ett antal olika tekniker och notationer för att studera och beskriva IT-system och verksamheter, analysera problem och förändringar, värdera verksamhetsstödjande och ge förslag på utveckling av IT-system och verksamhet.
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Broccardo, Laura, et al.
(author)
Digitalization and Management Control in the Public Sector : What is Next?
2023
In: Handbook of Big Data and Analytics in Accounting and Auditing. - Singapore : Springer Nature. ; , s. 279-308
Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.) abstract
Digitalization has become increasingly important over the years because of the potential opportunities and advantages it offers, both in terms of organizations’ management and performances and various stakeholder relationships. If integrated with management accounting systems, these benefits—derived from the implementation and use of digital tools—can increase. However, it is argued that there is still a long way to go, especially in the public sector. There is no clarity about the degree of digitalization and whether public sector organizations are prepared to implement digital tools in their management control systems (MCS). Therefore, this chapter, through a systematic literature review, aims to clarify how the implementation of digital tools influences the MCS of public sector organizations. The literature review reveals few studies on such topics for the public sector, which has a greater need of quantitative and qualitative studies. Furthermore, although the internal and external benefits associated with the use of digital tools in MCS are recognized, such tools seem to have an unexpressed potential in the public context. This chapter also adds to the knowledge of both practitioners and academics as it unveils a lack of innovative technical solutions that can support MCS and its integration with digitalization, which should be strengthened to improve decision-making processes.
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Brooks, Ian, et al.
(author)
#Tech4Bad: when do we say no?
2021
In: ITNOW. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1746-5702 .- 1746-5710. ; 63:4, s. 14-15
Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.) abstract
Existing IT systems are enabling company activities that are unsustainable and damaging to the environment. ‘When should we as IT professionals stop maintaining them?’ ask Ian Brooks MBCS, Minna Laurell Thorslund, Aksel Biørn-Hansen and Elena Somova.
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Brosnan, Caragh, et al.
(author)
Chinese Medicine as Boundary Object(s) : Examining TCM's Integration into International Science Through the Case of Australian--Chinese Research Collaboration
2022
In: East Asian Science, Technology and Society. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1875-2160 .- 1875-2152.
Journal article (peer-reviewed) abstract
Despite being defined in the West as alternative medicine and often seen as incommensurable with biomedicine and bioscience, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has, paradoxically, assimilated into dominant spaces of knowledge production and legitimation, such as the International Classification of Diseases. In Australia, TCM comprises a designated area of cooperation with China, and TCM research is carried out in numerous universities by otherwise mainstream scientists. Focusing on the Australian case, we examine how and why TCM has transcended scientific skepticism to become an object of scientific study. Through interviews with Australian TCM researchers (n = 10), we identify aspects of TCM that function as conceptual and material boundary objects, facilitating its uptake in bioscientific disciplines. Furthermore, we locate TCM research in the wider context of Australian-Chinese knowledge exchange, highlighting the role of "coordinating boundary objects," such as institutional agreements, in enabling scientific work, as well as the supportive role performed by boundary actors who translate across social worlds. By illustrating how these objects/actors enact TCM research in Australia, as well as their interdependence, the paper contributes a deeper understanding of the operation of boundary objects in international scientific collaboration and the factors determining the scientific success of this alternative medicine.
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Bruzzone, Silvia, Senior Lecturer
(author)
Risk forecast as work practice: Between codified and practical knowledge
2015
In: Journal of Risk Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1366-9877 .- 1466-4461. ; 8:2, s. 170-181
Journal article (peer-reviewed) abstract
If the use of meteorological data has progressively expanded in tackling different sources of risk, less developed is by contrast a reflection on how meteorological systems apply in local contexts and to what extent that locality may affect the use and the content of forecasting recipients. By focusing on a wildfire forecasting, I show how forecasting practice cannot be reduced to the implementation of meteorological devices; it rather takes shape in the articulation between the technical device and different sources of knowledge – tacit, practical and ‘profane’. This articulation work, this study gives account of, reveals some specific challenges in the introduction of forecasting systems in risk management.
3648.
Bruzzone, Silvia, Senior Lecturer, et al.
(author)
Supporting and Studying Organizational Change for Introducing Welfare Technologies as a Sociomaterial Process
2022
In: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 1664-1078. ; 13
Journal article (peer-reviewed) abstract
Welfare technologies (WT) for older people is a rapidly expanding sector that offers a way to tackle the challenge of an aging population. Despite their promise in terms of advances in care services and financial savings, their use is still limited. Their design and implementation remain problematic, as they require changes in working practices through coordination among a multiplicity of actors. In order to address these challenges, the need for change is often expressed in terms of a lack of working methods appropriate to their scope. This has led to a proliferation of different toolkits, guidelines, models, etc.; however, these methods often imply a linear understanding of an implementation project and thus fail to take into consideration the emergent and situated character of the processes that lead up to the adoption of welfare. The aim of this article is to propose an alternative means of providing support for the introduction of these technologies by initiating a process for organizational change. The term "change" is understood here as something that is produced by practitioners-in collaboration with researchers-and not brought by researchers to practitioners. To this end, using the tradition of intervention research as inspiration, a learning process at the crossroads of different practices and objects was initiated. The center of attention of this article' is the sociomaterial process by which different communities of practitioners interact on the co-creation of a checklist. This is a new working method in which the focus is not the artifact in itself but how it emerges through successive interactions and iterations among different objects, practitioners and researchers, resulting in a joint sociomaterial process that reconfigures power relations and the work objective associated with WT. In other words, a new working method artifact is developed in a process in which practitioners, researchers and contextual objects interact and become one with each another.
3649.
Bröer, Christian, et al.
(author)
Open Online Research : Developing Software and Method for Collaborative Interpretation
2016
In: Forum qualitative Sozialforschung. - : Freie Universität Berlin. - 1438-5627. ; 3:17
Journal article (peer-reviewed) abstract
Inspired by the potentials of web-based collaboration, in 2014, a group of social scientists, students and information specialists started tinkering with software and methodology for open online collaborative research. The results of their research led to a gathering of academics at the #ethnography Conference Amsterdam 2014, where new material was collected, shared and collaboratively interpreted. Following the conference, they continued to develop software and methodology. In this contribution, we report on the aims, methodology, inspiring examples, caveats and results from testing several prototypes of open online research software. We conclude that open online collaborative interpretation is both feasible and desirable. Dialogue and reflexivity, we hold, are able to transcend separated perspectives and stimulate agreement on a set of distinct interpretations; they simultaneously respect the multiplicity of understandings of social phenomena whilst bringing order into this diversity.
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