IN5210 - Autumn 2017

Syllabus

This is the final syllabus (updated 16.09.2017).

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

Core Readings

  • Bansler, J. (1989). "Systems Development Research in Scandinavia: Three Theoretical Schools". Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 1, pp. 3-20.
  • 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.
  • Braa, J. and Sahay, S. (2017). "The DHIS2 Open Source Software Platform: Evolution Over Time and Space". In Celi, L. A. G et al (eds) "Global Health Informatics: Principles of eHealth and mHealth to Improve Quality of Care", section 5, pp. 1-12, MIT Press, USA.
  • Bygstad, B. and Hanseth, O. (2017). "Transforming Corporate Infrastructures through Platformization. A Norwegian e-Health Case". Submitted to ISR.
  • Bygstad, B. (2016). "Generative Innovation: A Comparison of Lightweight and Heavyweight IT". Journal of Information Technology, pp. 1-14.
  • 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. 
  • Dahlbom, Bo. (1996) "The New Informatics," Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. 8 (2), pp. 29-48.
  • Flyvbjerg, B. and Budzier, A., (2011). "Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier than You Think", Harvard Business Review, 89 (9), pp. 23-25.
  • Groth, L. (1997) “Approaches to Organization Theory”. pp. 1-24.
  • 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. et al (2006). "Reflexive Standardization: Side Effects and Complexity in Standard Making". MIS Quarterly, 30, pp. 563-581.
  • 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 Lyytinen, K. (2010). "Design theory for dynamic complexity in information infrastructures: the case of building internet". Journal of Information Technology, 25, pp. 1-19.
  • Henfridsson, O. and Bygstad, B. (2013). "The Generative Mechanisms of Digital Infrastructure Evolution". MISQ, 37 (3), pp. 908-932.
  • Kappelman, L. A. , McKeeman, R. and Zhang, L. (2006). "Early Warning Signs of it Project Failure: The Dominant Dozen", Information Systems Management, 23 (4), pp.  31-36.
  • 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.
  • Mumford, E. (2006). "The story of socio-technical design: reflections on its successes, failures and potential". Information Systems Journal. 16, pp. 317-342.
  • Orlikowski, W. J. and Scott, S. V. (2008). "Sociomateriality: Challenging the Separation of Technology, Work and Organization", The Academy of Management Annals, 2 (1), pp. 433-474.
  • Provan, K. G. and Kenis, P. (2008). "Modes of Network Governance: Structure, Management, and Effectiveness". 18 (2), pp. 229-252,
  • Rodon, J. and Hanseth, O. (2017). "Understanding the Dynamics of Architecture-Governance Configurations". Unpublished Manuscript.
  • 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.
  • Sauer, C., Gemino, A., and Reich, B. H. (2007). "The Impact of Size and Volatility on IT Project Performance", Communications of the ACM, 50 (11), pp. 79-84.
  • Sia, S. K., Soh, C. and Weill, P. (2016). "How DBS Bank Pursued a Digital Business Strategy", MIS Quarterly Executive, 15 (2), pp. 105-121.
  • S?rensen, 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.
  • 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 s?ml?s integrasjon?” Tapir Akademisk Forlag. Translated from Norwegian.

Supplementary Readings

  • Boudreau, M.-C. and Robey, D. (2005). "Enacting Integrated Information Technology: A Human Agency Perspective". Organization Science. 16 (1), pp. 3-18.
  • Braa, J., Monteiro, E., and Sahay, S. (2004). "Networks of Action: Sustainable Health Information Systems Across Developing Countries", MIS Quarterly, 28 (3), pp. 337-362.
  • Feldman, M. and March, J. (1981). "Information in Organizations as Signal and Symbol", Administrative Science Quarterly, 2 (26), pp. 171-186.
  • Gizaw, A., Bygstad, B., and Nielsen, P. (2016). "Open Generification", Information Systems Journal, DOI: 10.1111/isj.12112
  • Gregor, S. (2006). "The Nature of Theory in Information Systems". MIS Quarterly, 30 (3), pp. 611-642.
  • Groth, L. (1999). “Future Organizational Design". In The Scope for the IT-based Enterprise, chap 1-3, pp. 3-55.
  • 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.
  • Hirschheim, R. and Klein, H. K. (2012) "A glorious and not-so-short history of the information systems field", Journal of the Association for Information Systems 13 (4), pp. 188-235.
  • Iivari, J. and Lyytinen, K. (1999). "Research on Information Systems Development in Scandinavia - Unity in Plurality", Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 10 (1), pp. 135-185.
  • Ives, B. et al. (2002). “What Every Business Student Needs to Know About Information Systems", Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 9 (1), pp. 467-477.
  • J?rgensen, M., Mohagheghi, P. and Grimstad, S. "Direct and indirect connections between type of contract and software project outcome", Simula Research Laboratory, Fornebu, Norway
  • Kensing, F. and Munk-Madsen, A. (1993). "PD: Structure in the toolbox". Communications of the ACM. 36 (4). pp. 78-85.
  • Orlikowski, W. J. and Iacono, C. S. (2001). "Research Commentary: Desperately Seeking the “IT” in IT Research—A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact. Information Systems Research", 12(2), pp.121-134.
  • Mintzberg, H. (1980). "Structure in 5's: A Synthesis of the Research on Organization Design", Management Science, 3 (26), pp. 322-341.
  • Monteiro, E. and Heps?, V. (1998) "Diffusion of information infrastructure: mobilization and improvisation” in Larsen, T., Levine, L. and DeGross, J.I. Information Systems: Current issues and future changes, IFIP, Laxenburg, Austria, pp. 255-274. 
  • Staring, K., and Titlestad, O. H. (2008). "Development as Free Software: Extending Commons Based Peer Production to the South". ICIS 2008 Proceedings. 50.
  • Van Maanen, J. (1988). "Confessional Tales". In "Tales of the field: On writing ethnography", Chapter 4, pp. 73-100, University Of Chicago Press, USA.
  • 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.
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