Syllabus

This is the almost final syllabus (updated 29.08.2019). There may be few additional readings.

The literature is available in the Syllabus folder (open only to registered students).

Core Readings

  • Bharadwaj, A., Sawy, O.A. Pavlou, P.A. and Venkatraman, N. (2013). "Digital business strategy: Toward a next generation of insights", MIS Quarterly, 37 (2), pp. 471-482.
  • Bygstad, B. (2017). "Generative innovation: A comparison of lightweight and heavyweight", Journal of Information Technology. 32 (2), pp. 180–193.

  • Currie, W. L. (2011). "Institutional Theory of Information Technology". In Galliers, R. D. and Currie, W. L. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems: Critical Perspectives and New Directions. 
  • Eaton, B. et al (2014). "Achieving Payoffs from an Industry Cloud Ecosystem at BankID". MIS Quarterly Executive, 13 (4), pp. 223-335.
  • Gregor, S. (2006). "The Nature of Theory in Information Systems". MIS Quarterly, 30 (3), pp. 611-642.
  • Hanseth, O. (2000). "The Economics of Standards". In Ciborra, C. U. (Ed), From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures, pp. 56-70, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Hanseth, O., and Bygstad, B. (2012). "Generative Information Infrastructure Architectures: A Longitudinal Study of eHealth Infrastructures in Norway". University of Oslo, Department of Informatics, Unpublished Manuscript.
  • Hanseth, O. and Bygstad, B. (2015). "Flexible generification: ICT standardization strategies and service innovation in health care", Europen Journal of Information Systems, 24, pp 645-663.
  • Hanseth, O. and Bygstad, B (2018).Platformization, Infrastructuring and Platform-oriented Infrastructures. A Norwegian e-Health Case, In review, MISQ.
  • Hanseth, O. and Lyytinen, K. (2010). "Design theory for dynamic complexity in information infrastructures: the case of building internet". Journal of Information Technology, 25, pp. 1-19.
  • Hanseth, O. and Rodon, J. (2019). "Understanding the Dynamics of Architecture-Governance Configurations". Unpublished Manuscript.
  • Li, N. (2019). "Making Usable Generic Software - The Platform Appliances Approach". Platformization Workshop at the Twenty-Seventh European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2019), Stockholm-Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Orlikowski, W. J. (2000). "Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations". Organization Science, 11(4), 404-428.
  • Pettersen, L. (2016). "The Role of Offline Places for Communication and Social Interaction in Online and Virtual Spaces in the Multinational Workplace". Nordicom Review, 37(special issue), pp. 131-146.
  • de Reuver, M. et al (2018), "The digital platform: a research agenda", Journal of Information Technology, 33, pp. 124-135.
  • Sahay, S. et al (2010). "Interplay of Institutional Logics and Implications for Deinstitutionalization: Case Study of HMIS Implementation in Tajikistan". Information Technologies & International Development. 6 (3), pp. 19-32.
  • Sørensen, C. (2016). "The Curse of the Smart Machine? Digitalisation and the children of the mainframe," Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. 28 (2), pp. 57-68.
  • Tiwana, A. (2014). "Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy", Morgan Kaufmann: USA. Chapter 1, pp 3-21.
  • Watson, R. T. (2014). “A Personal Perspective on a Conceptual Foundation of Information Systems”, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 15 (8), pp. 514-535.

Supplementary Readings

  • Aanestad, M. and Olaussen, I. (2010). "Interdisciplinary research on technology". pp 1-21. In Aanestad, M. and Olaussen, I. (eds) “IKT og samhandling i helsesektoren - Digitale lappetepper eller sømløs integrasjon ?” Tapir Akademisk Forlag. Translated from Norwegian.
  • Bansler, J. (1989). "Systems Development Research in Scandinavia: Three Theoretical Schools". Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 1, pp. 3-20.
  • Feldman, M. S. and Orlikowski, W. J. (2011). Theorizing practice and practicing theory. Organization Science, 22(5), 1240-1253.

  • Gherardi, S. (2010). "Telemedicine: A practice-based approach to technology", Human Relations, 63(4), 501-524.
  • Ghazawneh, A. and Henfridsson, O. (2013). "Balancing platform control and external contribution in third-party development: the boundary resources model". Information Systems Journal, 23, pp 173-192.
  • Gizaw, A., Bygstad, B., and Nielsen, P. (2017). "Open Generification", Information Systems Journal, 27, pp. 619-642.
  • Grisot, M., Kempton, A., Hagen, L., and Aanestad, M. (2018). "Data-work for personalized care: examining nurses’ practices in remote monitoring of chronic patients, special issue on Data Work", In review in Health Informatics Journal.
  • Hanseth, O. et al (2006). "Reflexive Standardization: Side Effects and Complexity in Standard Making". MIS Quarterly, 30, pp. 563-581.
  • Henfridsson, O. and Bygstad, B. (2013). "The Generative Mechanisms of Digital Infrastructure Evolution". MISQ, 37 (3), pp. 908-932.
  • Lee, A. S. (2004). "Thinking about social theory and philosophy for information systems." pp 1-26. In Willcocks, L and Mingers, J. (eds) "Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems" John Wiley & Sons, Chichester UK.
  • Monteiro, E, Pollock, N, Hanseth, O. and Williams, R. (2012). "From Artefacts to Infrastructures". Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 22 (4-6), pp. 575-607
  • Rolland, K. et al (2018). "Managing Digital Platforms in User Organizations: The Interactions Between Digital Options and Digital Debt", Information Systems Research, 29(2), pp. 419-443.
  • Sanner, T. A. et al (2014). "Grafting: Balancing Control and Cultivation in Information Infrastructure Innovation", Journal of the Association of Information Systems, pp. 220-243.
  • Staring, K., and Titlestad, O. H. (2008). "Development as Free Software: Extending Commons Based Peer Production to the South". ICIS 2008 Proceedings. 50.
  • Svahn, F., Mathiassen, L., and Lindgren R. (2017). "Digital Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed Competing Concerns". MIS Quarterly, 41(1), pp. 239-253.
  • Tiwana, A (2013). "The Rise of Platform Ecosystems". in Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy. Newnes.
  • Van Maanen, J. (1988). "Confessional Tales". In "Tales of the field: On writing ethnography", Chapter 4, pp. 73-100, University Of Chicago Press, USA.
  • Øvrelid, E. and Kempton, A. (2019). "From recombination to reconfiguration: Affording process innovation in digital infrastructures." In Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Stockholm & Uppsala, Sweden, June 8-14.
  • Øvrelid, E. and B. Bygstad, (2016) “Extending e-health infrastructures with lightweight IT.” In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 1865-1348. pp. 43-56.

  • Øvrelid, E. and Halvorsen M. (2018) "Supporting Process Innovation with Lightweight IT at an Emergency Unit" Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science  22 (2), pp. 27-44.

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