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- Ahonen, Mikko, PhD, post-doc researcher, 1968-
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Designing an Information System for Open Innovation – Bridging the Gap between Individual and Organisational Creativity
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- History shows that those companies that continue to invest in their innovative capabilities during tough economic times are often those that prosper when growth returns. Recently, information systems (IS) have been harnessed to support innovation. Even with IS support, innovation campaigns and suggestion management systems often end up in failure. Employees and customers are reluctant to share their best ideas. Individuals interests, motivation, creativity and life-long learning are seldom adequately supported by companies. In the information systems research area there is very little research on creativity and creativity has traditionally been studied mainly within the decision support systems (DSS) research area. This DSS area has focused on rather mechanistic idea-generation processes lacking a focus on individuals and their creativity. Even in the emerging open innovation paradigm, individual and group levels have come in for little research. From these starting points, we became interested in ways to improve existing information systems and innovation practices. The research question here is: How to design an artefact to support learning and creativity within the open innovation paradigm. Since we are interested in building new artefacts, we will utilise design research methods, particularly the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) process model. Our three artefacts are the results of our work. The first artefact, the Mobile Personal Development Plan, is focused on extending development talks between an employer and employees within human resource management to support innovation. Curiosity and emerging interests are seen here as idea seeds and future competences. The second artefact, the iPortfolio, extends this with a life-long learning and problem-solving focus. The third artefact, the Brokering Platform for Open Innovation, finally focuses on collaboration with customers and crowds. The software development was time consuming in our work and only the first artefact is demonstrated as a functional software prototype. Our pilot in an SME company illustrates practical requirements and usability issues related to the software. Additionally, a Delphi study with international open innovation experts served to identify future related requirements. Given the lack of creativity research in the IS field, we claim that our work makes an appropriate contribution. To the design research literature our input is new usage cases of the previously mentioned DSRM process model. Our results apply to organisations, where the employees work in dispersed teams and need an information system to communicate their emerging ideas and interests for more systematic problem-solving. The managers in our study reported that there are plenty of ideas available, but the challenge is to ensure the commitment of external resources to the actual innovation building. The integration of learning into the innovation and problem-solving activity should be motivational. We therefore discuss human resource management in relation to creativity and innovation. Surprisingly, in our pilots we noticed difficulties in time management in mobile settings and the current health risk debate gradually changed our artefact design, so this work also provides a critical view on mobility and on the access anytime, anywhere phenomenon. Finally, we suggest improvements to existing innovation practices in organisations.
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- Andersson, Magnus, et al.
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Architectural knowledge in inter-organizational IT innovation
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of strategic information systems. - : Elsevier BV. - 0963-8687 .- 1873-1198. ; 17:1, s. 19-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the front-end process of inter-organizational IT innovation. In particular, it focuses on the nature and role of architectural knowledge. Such knowledge is important for development of architectures capable of serving the goals of heterogeneous actors and technologies. Yet, surprisingly little research has been done on how architectural knowledge may be developed through collective achievements. This paper presents a theoretical model of architectural knowledge development in inter-organizational IT innovation. Applying this model throughout an action research project within the Swedish transport industry, the paper identifies four dimensions of architectural knowledge that proved important for facilitating an industry-wide ubiquitous computing environment. The four dimensions are technology capability awareness, use context sensitivity, business model understanding, and boundary-spanning competence. We conclude the paper by outlining the theoretical and strategy implications of the model and the four dimensions of architectural knowledge. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Andersson, Magnus, et al.
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Assessing the Mobile-Stationary Divide in Ubiquitous Transport Systems
- 2005
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Ingår i: Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments. - New York, USA : Springer-Verlag New York. - 9780387275604 ; , s. 123-137
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Many transport organizations seek to develop seamlessly integrated computing environments. A central problem in attempts to realize such ubiquitous transport systems is the divide that exists between stationary transport management systems and mobile applications such as embedded vehicle sensor networks and in-vehicle services for message handling. Originating from different Innovation regimes, these technologies are heterogeneous in that they rely on different technological platforms and knowledge bases, as well as the institutionalized settings from which they have emerged. This paper assesses how the mobile-stationary divide plays out in practical efforts to develop ubiquitous transport systems in road haulage firms. This assessment is conducted through a multiple-case study that identifies socio-technical challenges associated with this divide. Building on this assessment, the paper contributes a set of implications for enterprise-wide ubiquitous computing environments where coordination of diverse sets of mobile units is central to organizational performance. On a general level, these implications are important for any organization attempting to integrate mobile and stationary information systems.
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- Chiasson, M.W., et al.
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Researching the future: The information systems discipline's futures infrastructure
- 2011
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Ingår i: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. - 1868-4238 .- 1868-422X. - 9783642213632 ; 356, s. 1-7
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This proceedings for the IFIP 8. 2 working conference on Researching the Future is an attempt to pull together some of our research community's best ideas about how to research the future. The choice of conference theme should be seen as a way to solicit work that can help in building the information system discipline=s futures infrastructure. Such an infrastructure is one that provides an initial and developing set of intellectual structures from which IS research can respond to the needs of our future society.
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- Ellinger, Eleunthia, Wong, et al.
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Skin in the Game : The Transformational Potential of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
- 2024
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Ingår i: MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems. - : Management Information Systems Research Center. - 2162-9730 .- 0276-7783. ; 48:1, s. 245-272
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)—collectively owned human-machine systems deployed on a blockchain that self-govern through smart contracts and the voluntary contributions of autonomous community members—exhibit the potential to facilitate collective action in managing digital commons. Yet the promise of decentralization and collective action is difficult to sustain. To this end, this paper critically examines the transformational potential of DAOs in the case of decentralized finance. Using a polycentric governance lens, we contribute to the literature on technology-enabled forms of organizing with a model explaining the transformational potential of DAOs to facilitate collective action in digital commons. Our study highlights that (1) DAOs are a new form of organizing enabled by blockchain technology in which individuals are free to pursue their objectives within a general system of rules enforced by smart contracts, (2) collective action for managing digital commons can be sustained through a set of three mechanisms—sustained participation, collective direction, and scaled organizing, and (3) DAOs tend to strike a balance between centralized and fully decentralized or community-based governance by implementing a polycentric governance system involving a combination of human and machine agency that creates skin in the game.
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- Ghazawneh, Ahmad, et al.
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Balancing Platform Control and External Contribution in Third-Party Development: The Boundary Resources Model
- 2013
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Ingår i: Information Systems Journal. - : Wiley. - 1365-2575 .- 1350-1917. ; 23:2, s. 173-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Prior research documents the significance of using platform boundaryresources (e.g. application programming interfaces) for cultivating platform ecosystems through third-party development. However, there are few, if any, theoretical accounts of this relationship. To this end, this paper proposes a theoretical model that centres on two drivers behind boundary resources design and use – resourcing and securing – and how these drivers interact in third-party development. We apply the model to a detailed case study of Apple’s iPhone platform. Our application of the model not only serves as an illustration of its plausibility but also generates insights about the conflicting goals of third-party development: the maintenance of platform control and the transfer of design capability to third-party developers. We generate four specialised constructs for understanding the actions taken by stakeholders in third-party development: self-resourcing, regulationbased securing, diversity resourcing and sovereignty securing. Our research extends and complements existing platform literature and contributes new knowledge about an alternative form of system development.
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- Ghazawneh, Ahmad, 1984-, et al.
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Governing third-party development through platform boundary resources
- 2010
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Ingår i: ICIS 2010 Proceedings. - AIS : AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). ; , s. 1-18
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Third-party development is increasingly relevant for software platform owners seeking to generatecomplementary assets in the form of applications. The governance of such development involvestwo seemingly conflicting goals: the maintenance of platform control and the transfer of designcapability to users. A key element in simultaneously accommodating these goals is platformboundary resources. However, so far, there is a dearth of theoretical accounts of the role ofboundary resources and the process by which such resources can be used to govern third-partydevelopment. Drawing on case study research of Apple’s iPhone developer program, wesynthesize boundary objects theory and innovation networks literature to develop a processperspective of third-party development governance through boundary resources. In doing this, ourresearch extends and complements existing governance literature and contributes new knowledgeabout an alternative form of system development.
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- Ghazawneh, Ahmad, et al.
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Micro-Strategizing in Platform Ecosystems : A Multiple Case Study
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2011, Shanghai, China, December 4-7, 2011. Association for Information Systems 2011. - Shanghai, China : AIS. - 9780615559070 ; , s. 1-19
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The strategy by which a platform owner manages the future trajectory of its platform involves many unknowns. In particular, the ambition to simultaneously control the platform and distribute design capability to users is challenging. While there is an emerging literature on strategy in platform ecosystems, little empirical evidence exists about the series of strategic actions that platform owners conduct to create value in an ecosystem context. Drawing on a strategy-as-process perspective, this paper augments existing platform perspectives by seeking to understand the micro-strategizing of a platform owner. To this end, we report a multiple case study of Apple’s use of application programming interfaces for generating value from the iPhone platform. Our comparative analysis identifies and explores five different micro-strategies that can be enacted proactively or reactively: counteracting, monetizing, resourcing, securing, and sustaining. The paper concludes with a number of theoretical and practical implications of these micro-strategies and their interaction.
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- Ghazawneh, Ahmad
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Towards a Boundary Resources Theory of Software Platforms
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The last few years have witnessed a significant increase in the frequency and magnitude of involving third-party application developers in software platforms. While this involvement offers great opportunities in building and sustaining platform innovation, it also exposes platform owners to significant challenges. Typically, platform owners facilitate the involvement of third-party developers by providing resources, referred to in this thesis as boundary resources, that give access to the platform, shift design capability, and facilitate the use of the platform’s core technologies. At the same time, these resources have the potential to be used to maintain platform control. This involves seemingly conflicting goals that creates a challenge for platform owners in finding the right balance.The main objective of this thesis is to investigate and understand the role of boundary resources in platform owners’ efforts to stimulate third-party development. To this end, this thesis proposes a theoretical model of boundary resources. This model centres on various drivers behind boundary resources design and use, and how these drivers interact in third-party development. The thesis also presents a comprehensive view of governance and strategizing practices used by platform owners through boundary resources. This thesis comprises a cover and a collection of five published research papers. The thesis applies a qualitative research method and employs multiple case studies. Boundary resources, innovation networks and platform governance perspectives have been synthesized to build a theoretical basis to analyze the empirical findings.This thesis complements and extends the literature on software platforms, and the insights derived from the thesis enhance previous research on third-party development. In addition, it provides a focused theoretical account of the interfaces between platform owners and third-party developers that contributes to the body of knowledge developed around using tools for innovation.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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Action Research in New Product Development
- 2007
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Ingår i: Information Systems Action Research. - : Springer. - 9780387360591 ; , s. 193-216
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- Henfridsson, Ola, 1970-, et al.
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Action Research in New Product Development
- 2007
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Ingår i: Information Systems Action Research. - New York : Springer. - 9780387360591 - 9780387360607 ; , s. 193-216
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores the nature of action research in new product development. Characterized by pressures associated with product concept effectiveness and process performance, new product development is a challenging but rewarding setting for action research. By re-assessing a previously reported action research study in the automotive industry, we identify and analyze characteristics of managing such research in new product development. On the basis of this assessment, the chapter complements previous research on managing action research projects with specific insights applicable to settings in which new technologies are being built and tried out.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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Barriers to learning: on organizational defenses and vicious circles in technological adaptation
- 2000
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Ingår i: Accounting, Management and Information Technologies. - 0959-8022. ; 10:1, s. 33-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- On the basis of an interpretive case study, the authors explore the learning implications of introducing First Class in a social services department. The investigated case illustrates how learning efforts easily result in ''vicious circles''; the more learning is sought after, the more solid are the barriers to learning. In this case, the existence of certain organizational virtues - the learning organization and the notion of the professional social worker - were observed to have negative learning implications. Paradoxically, at the espoused level, these two virtues can be understood as healthy signs, although their existence as only virtues makes them basically opposed to learning. The results of this study contribute to existing theory about discontinuity in technological adaptation.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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Developing E-commerce in Internetworked Organizations : A Case of Customer Involvement Throughout the Computer Gaming Value Chain
- 2002
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Ingår i: Data Base for Advances in Information Systems. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 0095-0033. ; 33:4, s. 38-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many computer game developers have adopted network technologies for value-adding purposes at several stages of the corporate value chain. In this paper, we suggest that this adoption extends the current notion of developing e-commerce by including ongoing interaction with the consumers concerning what is being produced. On the basis of an interpretive case study, this paper outlines the process by which a Swedish computer game developer involved its customers in producing, testing, distributing, and marketing its online computer game Clusterball. Using Orlikowski's (1999) notion of ”internetworked organizations”, the paper explores how this customer involvement was supported by the use of network technologies at every stage of the value chain, and it illustrates how this involvement can be understood as an important feature of future development of e- commerce in organizations.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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Information systems strategizing, organizational sub-communities, and the emergence of a sustainability strategy
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of strategic information systems. - : Elsevier BV. - 0963-8687 .- 1873-1198. ; 23:1, s. 11-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The realized strategy contents of information systems (IS) strategizing are a result of both deliberate and emergent patterns of action. In this paper, we focus on emergent patterns of action by studying the formation of strategies that build on local technology-mediated practices. This is done through case study research of the emergence of a sustainability strategy at a European automaker. Studying the practices of four organizational sub-communities, we develop a process perspective of sub-communities' activity-based production of strategy contents. The process model explains the contextual conditions that make sub-communities initiate SI strategy contents production, the activity-based process of strategy contents production, and the IS strategy outcome. The process model, which draws on Jarzabkowski's strategy-as-practice lens and Mintzberg's strategy typology, contributes to the growing IS strategizing literature that examines local practices in IS efforts of strategic importance.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, 1970-
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IT-adaptation as sensemaking : inventing new meaning for technology in organizations
- 1999
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Noting how organizations today are increasingly dependent on IT for a broad range of organizational activities, the thesis starts from the observation that many IT-related endeavors nevertheless fail. In tracing part of the problem to the inability of many organizations to cope with changes in the surrounding material and social context, the emphasis is put on the processes by which IT-artifacts are adapted and re-adapted, after they have been put into daily use. Assuming human sensemaking as a good basis for coping with the changes, qualitative data from two organizations — a Swedish social services department and a software firm — provides an empirical context for assessing how sensemaking processes affect IT-adaptation.Conceptually, the thesis draws on Karl Weick's thinking, introducing the "double interact" and the "response repertoire" as sensitizing concepts with which to understand the mechanisms generating adaptation of IT-artifacts. Methodologically, the interpretive case study is employed, using the "hermeneutic circle" as the guiding principle for the research process.The thesis draws some specific implications concerning how IT-adaptation can be understood in organizations. The generic IT-adaptation process can be divided into two elementar}- phases, exploration and exploitation. During the exploration phase, several individual interpretations of a particular IT-artifact co-exist, occasioning ambiguity about its meaning in organizational daily activity. During the exploitation phase, the IT-artifact itself is in the background of matters of attention, providing organizational actors, who pursue individual goals and desires, the opportunity to exploit the shared and taken-for-granted meaning they see in the artifact. While the exploitation phase is important for organizational efficacy, there is nevertheless a risk that the meaning exploited becomes outdated by surrounding socio-material changes over time. Among other proposals, the thesis therefore suggests that triggering sensemaking processes can be important for meaningful IT-adaptation. In addition, it suggests the activity of searching for the interlacing areas of professional identity of actor groups, as a means to make IT-artifacts meaningful in organizing endeavors.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, 1970, et al.
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Managing technological change in the digital age: the role of architectural frames
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Information Technology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0268-3962 .- 1466-4437. ; 29:1, s. 27-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inspired by Herbert Simon's notion of nearly decomposable systems, researchers have examined modularity as a powerful approach to manage technological change in product innovation. We articulate this approach as the hierarchy-of-parts architecture and explain how it emphasizes decomposition of a design into loosely coupled parts and subsequent aggregation of these into an industrial product. To realize the scale benefits of modularity, firms successively freeze design specifications before production and therefore only allow limited windows of functionality design and redesign. This makes it difficult to take advantage of the increased speed by which digitized products can be developed and modified. To address this problem, we draw on Christopher Alexander's notion of design patterns to introduce a complementary approach to manage technological change that is resilient to digital technology. We articulate this approach as the network-of-patterns architecture and explain how it emphasizes generalization of ideas into patterns and subsequent specialization of patterns for different design purposes. In response to the increased digitization of industrial products, we demonstrate the value of complementing hierarchy-of-parts thinking with network-of-patterns thinking through a case study of infotainment architecture at an automaker. As a result, we contribute to the literature on managing products in the digital age: we highlight the properties of digital technology that increase the speed by which digitized products can be redesigned; we offer the notion of architectural frames and propose hierarchy-of-parts and network-of-patterns as frames to support innovation of digitized products; and, we outline an agenda for future research that reconsiders the work of Simon and Alexander as well as their followers to address key challenges in innovating digitized products.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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Multi-Contextuality in Ubiquitous Computing : Investigating the Car Case through Action Research
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information and organization. - New York : Pergamon Press. - 1471-7727 .- 1873-7919. ; 15:2, s. 95-124
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ubiquitous computing envisions seamless access of mass-scale services over the multitude of contexts that users encounter in their everyday mobility. However, to be successful such computing must simultaneously be designed to provide transparent, integrated, and convenient support in localized use contexts. Thus, the issue of multi-contextuality makes the design of ubiquitous computing services and environments a challenging endeavor. While ubiquitous computing requires attention to the multi-contextuality of people’s mobile device use encompassing spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of mobility, the typical avenue for IS research studies has been the single context (e.g., team, organization, or inter-organizational).This paper reports on a grounded action research study with the objective of developing and testing design principles for handling multi-contextuality in an increasingly important ubiquitous computing environment – the car. Already supporting people’s everyday mobility and promising to provide ubiquitous availability of computing and communication infrastructure, the car is indeed a relevant setting for investigating the co-existence of different use contexts in ubiquitous computing. Contributing to the early stage of the ubiquitous computing research tradition, this paper not only empirically demonstrates that the car as a ubiquitous computing environment can improve the convenience of people’s everyday mobile device use by providing multi-contextual support. The paper also suggests our design principles and their associated socio-technical implications to be valid for other ubiquitous computing environments. Indeed, synchronizing fluid use patterns, scaling service manipulation, and signaling context-switches through awareness support lie at the heart of weaving ubiquitous computing environments conveniently into the fabric of people’s everyday mobility.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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Path Creation in Digital Innovation : A Multi-Layered Dialectics Perspective
- 2009
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We extend the path creation literature by developing a dialectic perspective of its multi-layered nature. In particular, our perspective focuses on the process by which designers shift their attention across different layers of digital innovation in the pursuit of a particular innovation path. To better understand path creation in digital innovation, we draw on a six-year in-depth field study of designers at CarCorp and its owner, GlobalCarCorp. Because of the reciprocal nature of path creation and path dependency, the design agency of CarCorp's path creators is embroiled in tensions and contradictions. The reciprocity of dominant, emergent, and residual design structures serves as an underlying generative force for breaking away from the current innovation path of the studied automaker.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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Reconfiguring Modularity : Closing Capability Gaps inDigital Innovation
- 2009
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It is widely acknowledged that modularity, as an approach to both product design and organization design, provides product developing firms with dynamic capabilities that allow them to more effectively respond to changes in the environment. However, the innovation literature is silent on how such dynamic capabilities might require reconfiguration as firms in traditional industries embed digital technology into their products. Drawing on theories of modularity, capability, and software engineering, we therefore conducted a multi-level study of car navigation technology. On the industry level, we investigated how automakers' traditional hierarchical control over the innovation process was challenged as they faced multiple digital options for navigation systems design. On the firm level, we investigated how one large automaker exploited these options by reconfiguring modularity and distributing control over the innovation process. The paper makes two inter-related contributions. First, we extend the innovation literature by identifying and characterizing a capability gap that product developing firms in traditional industries face if they merely accommodate digital technology within the confines of current approaches to modularity. Second, we present a new understanding of modularity that draws on the innovation literature as well as the software engineering literature. Rather than relying mainly on components as interrelated physical parts of a hierarchical system, we argue that digital innovation requires product developers to fully exploit physical as well as logical design perspectives, and to differentiate between components as parts, as patterns, and as platforms. We posit that the capability to combine such approaches to modularity is essential for effectively embedding digital technology into traditional physical products.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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SeamlessTalk : User-Controlled Session Management for Sustained Car Conversations
- 2005
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Ingår i: The Interaction Society. - Hershey, PA : Information Science Publishing. - 1591405300 ; , s. 304-318
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter approaches sustained car conversations across mobile phones and in-car phone resources as a session management problem. Addressing this problem, the chapter outlines a session management model for user-controlled media switches during ongoing phone conversations. The model makes a distinction between the user and the infrastructure levels of session management. To illustrate and validate the rationale of the model, the chapter presents an in-car mobile phone hands-free system, SeamlessTalk, developed to support sustained car conversations. The user-controlled session management model contributes to current research on session management by addressing the explicit/implicit session management dichotomy in multiple media situations.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, 1970, et al.
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User Involvement In Developing Mobile and Temporarily Interconnected Systems.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Information Systems Journal. - : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.. - 1350-1917 .- 1365-2575. ; 20:2, s. 119-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Information systems (IS) research on user involvement has primarily theorized relationships between developers, managers and users in systems development. However, so far, marginal attention has been paid to differences in user involvement practices between information systems. This paper explores user involvement in developing mobile and temporarily interconnected systems (MTIS). We refer to MTIS as heterogeneous systems that rely on network technologies for increasing the ubiquity of information services for users on the move. Such systems are becoming increasingly important in leveraging, e.g. car infotainment, supply chain management and wireless e-commerce. With particular emphasis on the nature of MTIS and its implications for user involvement, the paper analyses the systems development process of an action research project. The findings suggest that user involvement practices need to be adapted to accommodate features of this class of systems. Being an early attempt to trace the implications of technology features such as use context switches and temporary system relationships, the paper contributes to the development of an updated theory of the user role in an era of increased system complexity and stakeholder ambiguity.
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- Henfridsson, Pia, et al.
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Five-year changes in dietary intake and body composition in adolescents with severe obesity undergoing laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery
- 2019
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Ingår i: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. - : ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. - 1550-7289 .- 1878-7533. ; 15:1, s. 51-58
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Information is scarce on long-term changes in energy intake (EI), dietary energy density (DED), and body composition in adolescents undergoing laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB). Objectives: To investigate long-term changes in EI, DED, and body composition in adolescents after LRYGB. Setting: University hospitals, multicenter study, Sweden. Methods: Eighty-five adolescents (67% girls; mean +/- standard deviation, age 16.0 +/- 1.2 yr, body mass index 45.5 +/- 6.1 kg/m(2)) were assessed preoperatively (baseline) and 1, 2, and 5 years after LRYGB with diet history interviews and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. Matched obese adolescent controls receiving nonsurgical treatment were assessed only at 5 years. Results: Weight decreased 31%, 33%, and 28% at 1, 2, and 5 years after LRYGB (P amp;lt; .001) while controls gained 13% over 5 years (P amp;lt; .001). Dietary assessments were completed in 98%, 93%, 87%, and 75% at baseline and 1, 2, and 5 years, respectively, and in 65% of controls. Baseline EI (2558 kcal/d), decreased by 34%, 22%, and 10% after 1, 2, and 5 years (P amp;lt; .05). DED decreased at 1 year (P -= .03). Macronutrient distribution was not different from controls at 5 years, but EI and DED were 31% and 14% lower (P amp;lt; .015). Fat, fat-free, and muscle mass decreased through 5 years after LRYGB (P amp;lt; .001). Boys preserved muscle mass more than girls (P amp;lt; .01). Adequate protein intake was associated with preservation of muscle mass (P=.003). Conclusions: In adolescents undergoing LRYGB EI remained 10% lower 5 years after surgery. Decreased EI and DED, rather than macronutrient distribution, are important factors in weight loss after surgery. Higher protein intake may facilitate preservation of muscle mass. (C) 2018 American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- Henfridsson, Pia, et al.
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Long-term changes in dietary intake and its association with eating-related problems after gastric bypass in adolescents.
- 2022
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Ingår i: Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. - : Elsevier BV. - 1878-7533. ; 18:12, s. 1399-1406
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery is an established, effective treatment for severe adolescent obesity. Long-term dietary intake and the relationship to eating-related problems are scarcely evaluated in this population.Assess changes in dietary intake in adolescents after RYGB and explore associations between dietary intake and eating-related problems.Multicenter study in Swedish university hospitals.Diet history, binge eating scale (BES), and Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire were assessed preoperatively and 1, 2, and 5 years after RYGB in 85 adolescents (67% female) aged 16.5 ± 1.2 years with a body mass index (BMI) of 45.5 ± 6.0 kg/m2 and compared with control individuals at 5 years.Five-year BMI change was -28.6% ± 12.7% versus +9.9% ± 18.9% in RYGB patients versus control individuals (P < .001). Through 5 years, RYGB adolescents reported reduced energy intake, portion size of cooked meals at dinner, and milk/yoghurt consumption (P < .01). The BES scores were 9.3 ± 8.3 versus 13.4 ± 10.5 in RYGB patients versus control individuals (P = .04). Association between BES score and energy intake was stronger in control individuals (r = .27 versus r = .62 in RYGB patients versus control individuals, P < .001). At 5 years, lower energy intake was associated with greater BMI loss in all adolescents (r = .33, P < .001). Higher scores in BES and uncontrolled and emotional eating were associated with higher energy intake, cooked meals, candies/chocolates, cakes/cookies, desserts, and sugary drinks (r > .23, P < .04) and lower intake of fruits/berries (r = -.32, P = .044). A higher score in cognitive restraint was associated with a higher intake of cereals and fruits/berries (r > .22, P < .05) and a lower intake of sugary drinks (r = -.24, P< .03).To support optimization of long-term outcomes in adolescent RYGB patients, it is important to provide management strategies to reduce energy intake. Monitoring eating-related problems could identify potential individuals at risk of poor weight loss and to initiate treatment interventions.
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- Henfridsson, Pia, et al.
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Micronutrient intake and biochemistry in adolescents adherent or nonadherent to supplements 5 years after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery
- 2019
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Ingår i: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. - : Elsevier BV. - 1550-7289 .- 1878-7533. ; 15:9, s. 1494-1502
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is an effective obesity treatment in adults and has become established in adolescents. Lower adherence to supplementation in adolescents confers a risk for long-term nutritional deficiencies. Objectives: To assess adherence to supplementation, micronutrient intake, and biochemistry in adolescents through 5 years after RYGB. Setting: University hospitals, multicenter study, Sweden. Methods: Micronutrient intake and adherence to supplementation were assessed by diet history interviews and biochemistry preoperatively, 1, 2, and 5 years after RYGB in 85 adolescents (67% females), aged 16.5 years (± 1.2) with a body mass index of 45.5 kg/m2 (± 6.0). Adherence was defined as taking prescribed supplements ≥3 times a week. Micronutrient intake and biochemistry were compared with matched controls at 5 years. Results: Over 75% completed the dietary assessments across 5 years after RYGB. Adherence ranged between 44–61% through 5 years. At 5 years, ferritin and hemoglobin decreased (P < .04) and 61% had iron deficiency (P ≤ .001). Among females with iron deficiency, most did not adhere to supplementation (P = .005), and 59% of these had anemia (P < .001). Vitamin D insufficiency continued after surgery and 80% of participants who did not adhere to supplementation had insufficiency (P = .002). Adolescents not adhering had lower levels of vitamin D, B12, and ferritin (females) compared with both adhering adolescents and the control group (all P < .04). Conclusions: Half of adolescents after RYGB reported sufficient long-term adherence to supplementation. Adhering to supplements and reporting a higher micronutrient intake were associated with more favorable biochemistry. Results support the recommendations for monitoring micronutrient intake and biochemistry in all patients who have undergone RYGB surgery, and the recommendation of higher preventive supplementation of vitamin D and iron in both sexes. As hypothesized, adolescents not adhering had a higher prevalence of long-term micronutrient deficiencies. © 2019 American Society for Bariatric Surgery
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- Holmström, Helena, et al.
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Improving Packaged Software through Community Knowledge
- 2006
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. - Aalborg : The IRIS Association, University of Aalborg. - 0905-0167 .- 1901-0990. ; 18:1, s. 3-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Packaged software development (PSD) is largely a knowledge-intense activity. Thus, it depends on the organizational capability of developing and combining market and technical knowledge into timely and competitive software products. Given customers’ situated knowledge of the software, software firms increasingly seek new ways to involve customers in their software development activities. As highlighted in the literature, one path for doing this is to use online communities. However, there exists little empirical research that examines the role that communities can play in the commercial endeavor of PSD. To address this omission, this paper examines the benefits and limits of online community use in PSD as it unfolds at the intersection between commercial software firm practices and voluntary community participation. On the basis of this examination, the paper presents implications for both research and practice.
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- Hylving, Lena, 1974-, et al.
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The Role of Dominant Design in a Product Developing Firm’s Digital Innovation
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application. - Hong Kong : Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application. - 1552-6496 .- 1532-4516. ; 13:2, s. 5-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital technology offers new options for product-developing firms. However, to reap the benefits of digital technology, firms need to handle the tensions between these options and the institutionalized practices established over long periods of incremental innovation. We report on a twenty-month intensive case study of a global automaker’s efforts to innovate instrument clusters and explore the influencing role of established innovation practices. We develop a conceptual model for understanding how digital technology shapes, and is conditioned by, the dominant design of a product class. Our research contributes to the emerging literature of digital innovation and offers lessons learned for established firms dealing with the contradictory logics of digitized products.
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- Hylving, L, et al.
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The Role of Dominant Design in a Product Developing Firm's Digital Innovation
- 2012
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital technology offers new options for product-developing firms. However, to reap the benefits of digital technology, firms need to handle the tensions between these options the institutionalized practices established over long periods of incremental innovation. We report on a twenty month intensive case study of a global automaker€™s efforts to innovate instrument clusters explore the influencing role of established innovation practices. We develop a conceptual model for understanding how digital technology shapes, is conditioned by, the dominant design of a product class. Our research contributes to the emerging literature of digital innovation offers lessons learned for established firms dealing with the contradictory logics of digitized products_x000D_
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- Ihlström Eriksson, Carina, et al.
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Online newspapers in Scandinavia : A longitudinal study of genre change and interdependency
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information Technology and People. - Bingley : Emerald. - 0959-3845 .- 1758-5813. ; 18:2, s. 172-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - To examine the evolution of the online newspaper genre in Scandinavia. To provide an understanding of the institutional context in which online newspapers initially were produced and modified over time. Design/methodology/approach - A longitudinal study of three different types of newspapers in three Scandinavian countries. The study is based on interviews with newspaper representatives conducted during recurring visits in 1996, 1999 and 2002, and web page analysis of their online newspapers. Findings - The study illustrates how online newspapers have established a number of communicative practices significant for recognizing them as a distinct digital genre, and it outlines a set of institutional factors shaping the ongoing change of these newspapers. In addition, the study demonstrates the emergence of sequential interdependencies between online and printed news. Originality/value - The focus on Scandinavian newspapers in this paper complements studies conducted in other parts of the world regarding online newspaper genre evolution.
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- Johansson, Britt-Marie, 1961-
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Kundkommunikation vid distanshandel : En studie om kommunikationsmediers möjligheter och hinder
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Andelen affärstransaktioner som bedrivs på distans, dvs. handel där köpare och säljare inte träffas öga mot öga, blir allt större. Detta beror dels på att postorderföretagen har utnyttjat e-handelstekniken till att utöka kommunikationsmöjligheterna med sina kunder, dels att ren e-handel har ökat och dessutom att många traditionella företag kompletterar befintliga affärsmodeller med e-handel. Denna utveckling gör att allt fler företag har alla eller delar av sina kunder på distans. Kundkommunikationen vid distanshandel sker via olika kommunikationsmedier som påverkar kommunikationen på olika sätt. Syftet med denna avhandling är att utveckla kunskap som är till stöd för distanshandelsföretag så att de kan fatta välgrundade beslut avseende vilka kommunikationsmedier de ska erbjuda sina kunder och hur de kan förbättra kundkommunikationen via dessa. I tre fallstudier undersöks företagens och kundernas perspektiv på att kommunicera via olika kommunikationsmedier. I vart och ett av dessa tre fallstudier har ett stort antal möjligheter och hinder som kan relateras till de olika kommunikationsmedierna identifierats. För att söka förklaringar till dessa möjligheter och hinder har en fallöverskridande analys gjorts. Resultatet från denna är följande fyra kategorier: kommunikationsmediers egenskaper, informationsmängden, produkten samt företagens design av kundkommunikationen. För att göra kunskapsbidragen från avhandlingen mer lättillgängliga för praktiker, delaktiga i ledningen av kundtjänstverksamheter vid distanshandelsföretag, föreslås ett antal frågor som de kan ställa för att kunna fatta välgrundade beslut om hur kundkommunikationen i deras företag ska designas. För varje fråga visas hur kunskapsbidragen i avhandlingen kan ge stöd.
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- Jonsson, Katrin, 1978-
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Digitalized industrial equipment : an investigation of remote diagnostics services
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- With the ubiquity of digitalization, digital convergence of applications, devices, networks and artifacts presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals, organizations and society. Physical artifacts that were not digital in the recent past are now increasingly becoming intertwined with digital components, providing them with digital capabilities. As a consequence, vast amounts of information that used to be invisible can now be captured, digitized and used in new places and novel ways. Organizations thus seek to innovate IT-enabled services based upon the flows of information across both internal and external organizational boundaries. Because IT-enabled services support organizational actors in communicating and collaborating both inside and outside the organizations’ boundaries, they can also assimilate and diffuse knowledge across these boundaries. The thesis is a collection of five papers and a cover paper reporting an exploration of the role of digitalized equipment in boundary-spanning practices as a contribution to the design and implementation of IT-enabled services. Three embedded case studies of Swedish industrial organizations provide an opportunity to address the research question. The findings are based on studies of remote diagnostics services for industrial equipment enabled by remote diagnostics systems, an application family within ubiquitous computing. The thesis illustrates that remote diagnostics systems have a profound impact on how organizational boundaries that were drawn as ‘cross-overs’ are becoming less limited by constraints of time, space and the type of data shared. These systems permit workers at remote sites to gain access to information about external dispersed equipment and production processes. They also create new boundaries between entities that were not previously connected and across existing boundaries with new information and knowledge. This thesis gives insight into how such information sharing across boundaries may leverage multicontextual practices. This thesis contributes to the existing literature with the development of a conceptual apparatus for understanding how embedded technology transforms boundary-spanning practices from a pure social activity to a boundary-spanning assemblage. Boundary spanning is an increasingly complex sociomaterial practice that fundamentally rests on technology as well as human competencies. The technology is deeply intertwined in the boundary-spanning activity as the sensors installed in the monitored equipment serve as the remote technicians’ eyes and ears. Together, the technology and the technicians form a boundary-spanning assemblage. While information systems research has called for attention to the ‘IT artifact’, this thesis underscores the importance of the characteristics of the specific technology and the profound effects it has had on its surroundings. In contrast to predominant ubiquitous computing research that mainly explores mobile applications, this thesis also shows how the increased embeddedness of IT makes technology an invisible but ever-present part of everyday work practices. Digitalized equipment with embedded technology thus raises not only novel opportunities but also novel challenges for both users and researchers. We can design IT solutions today where people close to the technology have no access to or awareness of it. People can be monitored without visual cues revealing the monitoring. Furthermore, developing or using an IT-enabled service is not merely about developing/using a technology or a system; it also involves issues about the technology’s value creation, its ownership, competencies and customer relationships. IT and services should thus not be considered as separate and subsequent processes: they are deeply intertwined and mutual. This thesis thus suggests that digitalized equipment with embedded technology deserves critical scrutiny.
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- Koutsikouri, Dina, 1970, et al.
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Building Digital Infrastructures: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Contextual Triggers
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2017. - 1530-1605. - 9780998133102
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Past IS research suggests it is challenging to build digital infrastructures and then make sure they grow. While more users, innovative services, and new partners spur infrastructure evolution, we know little of the specific contextual triggers that set these generative mechanisms in motion. To this end, we conduct a case study of a digitalized public transport infrastructure to identify such triggers and explore their impact on its evolution. Our study contributes to the extant literature on digital infrastructure evolution in two distinct ways. First, we analyze, define, and propose three contextual triggers that improve our understanding of the generative mechanisms behind infrastructure development and growth. Second, we rely on this conceptual basis to sketch out the initial contours of a novel evolutionary theory of digital infrastructure triggers.
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- Koutsikouri, Dina, 1970, et al.
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Extending digital infrastructures : A typology of growth tactics
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of the Association for Information Systems. - : Association for Information Systems. - 1536-9323. ; 19:10, s. 1001-1019
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital infrastructures enable delivery of information services in functional areas such as health, payment, and transportation by providing a sociotechnical foundation for partnership governance, resource reuse, and system integration. To effectively serve emerging possibilities and changing purposes, however, a key question concerns how an infrastructure can be extended to cater for future services in its functional area. In this paper, we approach such digital infrastructure growth as a challenge of aligning new partners whose digital capabilities spur innovative services that attract more users. We advance an initial typology that covers four growth tactics (i.e., adding services, inventing processes, opening identifiers, and providing interfaces) with the potential to set extension of infrastructures in motion. We then explore the proposed typology by investigating the ways in which its particular tactics successfully extended the scope of a digital infrastructure for public transportation in Stockholm, Sweden. Our insights invite IS scholars to engage more deeply in the development of growth tactics that achieve infrastructure extensions necessary for improving the durability of service delivery.
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- Krasnova, H., et al.
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Publication strategy for junior researchers: Quantity vs. quality, the first authorship and the optimal number of authors
- 2012
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Ingår i: 20th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2012; Barcelona; Spain; 10 June 2012 through 13 June 2012. - 9788488971548
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A good publication record is one of the most important prerequisites of a successful academic career in IS. Despite the weight hiring and promotion committees place on it, the definition of a "good publication record" especially for junior researchers remains unclear. Indeed, is it better to have one A-publication or three B-publications? Does being the third author on an A-publication have a bigger weight than being the first author on a B-publication? Should one strive to publish with as few coauthors as possible to demonstrate that one is capable of independent work? Facing these ambiguities, young researchers are increasingly asking themselves about the choices they make with regard to their publication strategy. Equally, academic mentors have a strong interest in correctly setting incentives of their young protégés. If unaddressed, uncertainty regarding these issues is bound to interfere with the quality of the IS research and scholars' job and life satisfaction. This panel proposal aims to offer a forum for discussion and clarification on these problematic issues. Specifically, the following topics will be raised: quantity vs. quality, value of the first authorship and optimal number of authors.
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- Lagsten, Jenny, 1967-
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Utvärdera Informationssystem : Pragmatiskt perspektiv och metod
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syfte: Det övergripande syftet med avhandlingen är att utveckla en intressentbaseradutvärderingsmetod för att utvärdera informationssystem. Jag har valt attkalla utvärderingsmetoden för VISU (Verksamhetsutvecklande InformationssystemUtvärdering). I VISU uppfattas utvärderingsprocessen som en socialprocess där människor arbetar tillsammans för att bestämma sig för egenskaperoch värden hos det informationssystem som utvärderas. Utgångspunkten förutvärderingsprocessen enligt VISU är att utvärdering ska användas praktiskt avmänniskor för att skapa utveckling och förbättring i verksamheter. Frågor: Tvåövergripande forskningsfrågor har drivit avhandlingsarbetet:1. Hur bör en metodför utvärdering av informationssystem vara utformad för att bidra till enverksamhets utveckling?2. Vad innebär en pragmatiskt grundad modell för ISUtvärdering?Forskningsmetod: I avhandlingsarbetet utvecklar jag VISU ochundersöker hur metoden fungerar samt vilka konsekvenser som användandet avVISU ger i praktiska utvärderingssammanhang. Forskningsarbetet har bedrivitsenligt Canonical Action Research. Aktionsforskningsstrategin har valts för attmotsvara undersökningsbehovet vid metodutveckling - behovet av att prövametoden i praktiska utvärderingsprocesser där metoden är avsedd att användas.Vidare grundas och förankras VISU i pragmatiska kunskapsteorier och teorier omutvärdering (särskilt intressentmodellen). VISU är också grundad i forskning omIS-utvärdering och förankrad i skolan om interpretativ IS-utvärdering.Kunskapsbidrag: Det praktiska bidraget från avhandlingen är en metod, VISU,för att utvärdera informationssystem. De teoretiska kunskapsbidragen är:rationalitet för en pragmatisk utvärderingsprocess, en multiparadigmmodell förIS-utvärdering samt en modell för utvärderingsbruk.
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- Lindgren, Rikard, et al.
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Design principles for competence management systems : A synthesis of an action research study
- 2004
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Ingår i: Management Information Systems Quarterly. - : University of Minnesota, MIS Research Center. - 0276-7783 .- 2162-9730. ; 28:3, s. 435-472
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- Even though the literature on competence in organizations recognizes the need to align organization level core competence with individual level job competence, it does not consider the role of information technology in managing competence across the macro and micro levels. To address this shortcoming, we embarked on an action research study that develops and tests design principles for competence management systems. This research develops an integrative model of competence that not only outlines the interaction between organizational and individual level competence and the role of technology in this process, but also incorporates a typology of competence (competence-in-stock, competence-in-use, and competence-in-the-making). Six Swedish organizations participated in our research project, which took 30 months and consisted of two action research cycles involving numerous data collection strategies and interventions such as prototypes. In addition to developing a set of design principles and considering their implications for both research and practice, this article includes a self-assessment of the study by evaluating it according to the criteria for canonical action research.
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- Lindgren, Rikard, et al.
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Multi-Contextuality in Boundary Spanning Practices
- 2009
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Ingår i: Information Systems Journal. - Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1350-1917 .- 1365-2575. ; 18:6, s. 641-661
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The capability to establish boundary-spanning practices within and across organizations has for long been recognized as a key strategic resource. As organizations are becoming distributed and dynamic, they will be increasingly populated by multiple functional, geographical, hierarchical and professional boundaries. The inherent complexity of such settings makes it difficult for organizations to leverage their boundary-spanning practices. Information technology (IT) systems have been hailed as a critical enabler of boundary spanning. However, there is little knowledge on how organizations are affected by the introduction of different types of IT systems. Building on an interpretive case study of Swedish transport organizations, this paper explores consequences of sensor technology for boundary spanning. The paper contributes with an understanding of what coexisting use contexts mean for boundary-spanning practices. A theoretical implication is that such multi-contextuality requires an integrative view on boundary spanning that combines insights from the organizational innovation and work practice literatures.
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