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- Cedering Ångström, Rebecka, et al.
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Getting AI Implementation Right: Insights from a Global Survey
- 2023
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Ingår i: California Management Review. - : University of California Press. - 2162-8564 .- 0008-1256. ; 66:1, s. 5-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) is pervasive, many companies struggle with AI implementation challenges. This article presents results from a survey of 2,525 decision-makers with AI experience in China, Germany, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States—as well as interviews with 16 AI implementation experts—in order to understand the challenges companies face when implementing AI. The study covers technological, organizational, and cultural factors and identifies key challenges and solutions for AI implementation. This article develops a diagnostic framework to help executives navigate AI challenges as companies gain momentum, manage organization-wide complexities, and curate a network of partners, algorithms, and data sources to create value through AI.
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- Ghita, Cristina, 1986-
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Technology in Absentia : A New Materialist Study of Digital Disengagement
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The rhetoric associated with society-wide digitalisation promises benefits such as increased quality of life, democracy, or sustainability, which point towards normative trajectories of increased automation and digitalisation of nearly all aspects of society. Meanwhile, there is evidence of a disenchantment with digital use, forming a movement that challenges the pervasiveness of digital artefacts such as the smartphone. This kind of scepticism towards digital technologies is currently informing and changing how we assume, understand, and conceptualise technology in our professional and private lives, leading to an emerging trend of volitionally reducing or postponing the use of digital devices – a practice often labelled as digital disengagement. In this dissertation the research lens is directed towards how the disengagement from ubiquitous digital devices unfolds and to what results. Thus, it investigates the productive potential of technology intentionally made absent, repositioning the traditional approach of articulating such absence as a deficit.Drawing on a new materialist perspective of technology use which combines assemblage theory with agential realism, this dissertation explores the search for meaningful technological encounters through a multi-sited ethnographic approach. More specifically, it combines autoethnography, a diary study, interviews, participatory observations, and netnography in which moments of disconnection are observed in order to understand experiences of digital disengagement at individual and collective levels. Through this lens, the performativity, temporality, and productivity of digital disengagement are made visible and analysed. Results show that digital disengagement is not an insular practice, including in its composition a myriad of external components. Digitalisation is shown to be in direct dialogue with practices of digital disengagement through their mutual dichotomic logics. Further analysis of such dichotomies suggests new manners of engaging with technology in which digital use and non-use are entangled, resulting in a novel type of technology engagement called diffractive digital use
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- Göransson, Markus Balázs, Assistant Professor, 1984-, et al.
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‘The phone means everything.’ : Mobile phones, livelihoods and social capital among Syrian refugees in informal tented settlements in Lebanon
- 2020
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Ingår i: Migration and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2163-2324 .- 2163-2332. ; 9:3, s. 331-351
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the role of mobile phones in livelihood creation among Syrian refugees in informal tented settlements in Akkar Governorate and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Drawing on forty-five interviews with Syrian refugees and ten interviews with aid workers, the study highlights the importance of mobile phones in reviving, maintaining and leveraging social capital for the purpose of securing livelihoods in a context of precarity and restricted movement. We find that mobile phones offer important means for reviving social networks in exile, managing supportive relationships that have been established in Lebanon and liaising with employers. As such, they constitute important tools for coping with a context shaped by legal exclusion, restricted movement, police harassment, decentralised aid provision and a geographical dispersal of support networks, even as they remain a costly investment with uncertain returns.
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- Holmström, Jonny, et al.
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Orchestrating digital innovation: The case of the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation
- 2021
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Ingår i: Communications of the Association for Information Systems. - : Association for Information Systems. - 1529-3181. ; 48, s. 248-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is increasing interest in how digital innovation is facilitated and enacted in networks of diverse actors, i.e. heterogenous networks. However, while there is considerable evidence that firms can build key capabilities through engagement with external partners, we find a dearth of studies on how digital innovation is orchestrated in situations where an academic unit plays a facilitating role in the heterogenous network. We address this question employing a dynamic capabilities approach, and focusing on experiences from a national academic initiative, the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI). SCDI was formed in 2013 and has adopted an engaged scholarship approach and a combination of activities designed to increase digital capabilities among partner organizations. We argue that the acquisition of new knowledge through external and internal sources stimulates firms and public sector organizations engaged in digital innovation to integrate such new knowledge with existing knowledge. Specifically, we demonstrate how SCDI’s core activities create increased integrative capabilities for the involved stakeholders, as well as offer lessons-learned and recommendations for academic units that wish to orchestrate digital innovation.
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- Hultin, Lotta, et al.
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Precarity, Hospitality, and the Becoming of a Subject That Matters : A Study of Syrian Refugees in Lebanese Tented Settlements
- 2022
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 43:5, s. 669-697
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How is it possible to gain a sense that you have a voice and that your life matters when you have lost everything and live your life as a ‘displaced person’ in extreme precarity? We explore this question by examining the mundane everyday organizing practices of Syrian refugees living in tented settlements in Lebanon. Contrasting traditional empirical settings within organization studies where an already placed and mattering subject can be assumed, our context provides an opportunity to reveal how relations of recognition and mattering become constituted, and how subjects in precarious settings become enacted as such. Specifically, drawing on theories on the relational enactment of self and other, we show how material-discursive boundary-making and invitational practices – organizing a home, cooking and eating, and organizing a digital ‘home’ – function to enact relational host/guest subject positions. We also disclose how these guest/host relationalities create the conditions of possibility for the enactment of a subject that matters, and for the despair enacted in everyday precarious life to transform into ‘undefeated despair’.
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- Hultin, Lotta, et al.
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The decentered translation of management ideas: Attending to the conditioning flow of everyday work practices
- 2021
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US) / Springer Verlag (Germany). - 1741-282X .- 0018-7267. ; 74:4, s. 587-620
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on a study of Lean management practices at the Swedish Migration Board, we develop a novel theoretical understanding of the translation of management ideas. We show how translation, rather than being reduced to a network of human intentions and actions governing the transformation of organizational practices, can instead be understood as a historically contingent, situated flow of mundane everyday work practices through which social and material translators simultaneously become translated, conditioned to be and act in certain ways. We show how prior actor-centric accounts of translation of management ideas can be understood as performative consequences of a conceptual vocabulary inherited from Callon and Latour. Contrasting this, the non-actor-centric vocabulary of social anthropologist Tim Ingold allows us to background the intentional human actor and foreground the flow of mundane, situated practices. In adopting this vocabulary, we capture how the flow of practices conditions subjects and objects to become enacted as well as act, and develop an understanding of translation as occurring within, rather than distinct from, these practices. In essence, our novel view of translation emphasizes how management ideas are radically unstable, and subject to alteration through the flow of practices rather than as a result of deliberate implementation efforts.
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- Keil, Mark, et al.
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IT Project Management
- 2020
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Ingår i: MIS Quarterly Research Curations. - : University of Minnesota.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- IT project management has long been a key area of interest among IS scholars and practitioners, since IT projects constitute a key vehicle for IS development and implementation. A project can be defined as an interrelated set of activities intended to accomplish certain desired objectives within a limited period of time, typically executed by a project team. IT projects involve developing and/or deploying IT artifacts (comprised of either software, hardware, or both). IT project management thus refers to the application of knowledge, skills, techniques, and processes to conduct such projects within agreed-upon parameters (e.g., budget, schedule, scope, quality), and in concert with organizational goals and priorities. The significance of this topic for the IS discipline is evident in the number of publications that have addressed different aspects of project management dating back to 1978 when the first two MIS Quarterly articles on this topic were published. We have identified 39 publications in MIS Quarterly on the topic up to Summer 2020.
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- Larsson Carlander, Mathias, et al.
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Leveraging Dynamic Sourcing in Digital Innovation: Collaborative Innovation and Efficient Scaling
- 2023
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - New York, U.S.A. : Academy of Management. - 2376-7197 .- 0065-0668. ; 2023:1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital innovation work is typically driven by short, rapid, and iterative development cycles involving flexible recombination of digital assets. While digital innovation often involves drawing on external assets, the literature is surprisingly silent on the role of sourcing relationships in this context. Interestingly, the IT outsourcing (ITO) literature, including recent work on strategic innovation and sourcing, predominantly understands sourcing relationships as evolving from transaction-based towards collaborative and innovation-oriented, with long-term relationship development a prerequisite for collaborative innovation between providers and their customers. This apparent temporality mismatch leads to the question of whether and how firms pursuing digital innovation through flexibility, speed, and scaling can innovatively leverage more dynamic sourcing relationships. We pursue this topic through an in-depth case study of an incumbent firm integrating dynamic and flexible sourcing practices into its digital innovation work. We identify a set of dynamic sourcing activities that allow onboarding sourcing partners directly into collaborative innovation work and then transitioning the collaboration to efficiency-focused deployment and contract-based scaling. Our study thus articulates the role of dynamic sourcing in digital innovation and disconfirms core assumptions about ITO relationship evolution.
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PANEL 4: A nordic Sociotechnical Perspective on Artificial Intelligence Phenomena
- 2020
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent advancements on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have resurfaced utopian and dystopian narratives on the future of work. The uniqueness of the AI technologies is their potential to supplement, substitute and amplify practically all tasks currently performed by humans. Hence, they hold the potential to rapidly reshape the nature of work and our economies (Frank et al., 2019). “How?” is the question. Optimists focus on its technological possibilities and postulate that AI will free humans from boring, repetitive tasks - allowing the creation of higher quality jobs - and emphasize new opportunities for organizations to create a competitive advantage. Skeptics, on the other side, highlight the possibility of increased unemployment or work degradation as human deskilling occurs due to an increased degree of decision and knowledge work delegation.
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