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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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In: Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments. - New York, USA : Springer-Verlag New York. - 9780387275604 ; , s. 123-137
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)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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In: 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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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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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- 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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In: Information Systems Journal. - : Wiley. - 1365-2575 .- 1350-1917. ; 23:2, s. 173-192
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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, et al.
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Micro-Strategizing in Platform Ecosystems : A Multiple Case Study
- 2011
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In: 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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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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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- Henfridsson, Ola, 1970-, et al.
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Action Research in New Product Development
- 2007
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In: Information Systems Action Research. - New York : Springer. - 9780387360591 - 9780387360607 ; , s. 193-216
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)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, 1970-
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IT-adaptation as sensemaking : inventing new meaning for technology in organizations
- 1999
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)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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In: Journal of Information Technology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0268-3962 .- 1466-4437. ; 29:1, s. 27-43
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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