A Pre-ECIS and AIS SIG Prag Workshop on

IT Artefact Design & Workpractice Intervention

June 10, 2012, Barcelona

Focus

An international workshop for IS scholars interested in one or more of the following related issues:

·         design science research

·         theorizing the IT artefact

·         action research and other intervention strategies

·         theorizing practices and work-systems

·         the use of action-oriented theories in IS

·         practice relevance and usefulness of IS research

·         researcher-practitioner collaboration

·         engaged scholarship

·         practice research

·         pragmatist epistemology

Program - papers

Theme: Artefact & practice theorizing

Information systems strategy-as-practice, Viktor Arvidsson, Jonny Holmström & Kalle Lyytinen

What is an ensemble artefact?, Göran Goldkuhl

What is IT in use and why does it matter for IS design?, Kai Riemer & Robert B. Johnston

Is Work system theory as a practical theory of practice?, Steven Alter

Thinking about evaluation of information systems that makes work work, Jenny Lagsten

Theme: Design research

Designing to support complex organizational work: a pragmatic approach, Arvind Karunakaran, Sandeep Purao & Jingwen He

The Case for Design Science Utility - Evaluation of design science artefacts within the IT Capability Maturity Framework, Markus Helfert & Brian Donnellan

Design science research in action - experiences from a process perspective, Hannes Göbel & Stefan Cronholm

Design Research Practice - A Product Semantics Interpretation, Jonas Sjöström & Brian Donnellan

Validation Criteria For The Outcomes Of Design Research, João Alvaro Carvalho

Generalizing from Design Research, Matti Rossi, Sandeep Purao & Maung Sein

Theme: Practice research

Collaboration by design – on the use of value modeling in social innovation projects, Hans Weigand

Different roles of evaluation in information systems research, Göran Goldkuhl & Jenny Lagsten

Sharpening the BPM knowledge transfer in a practice research design – a case study, Marie-Therese Christiansson & Klas Granström

Registration

Information about registration: www.vits.org/?pageId=388.

Organisers

AIS Special interest group on Pragmatist IS research (SIG Prag)

Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden

Innovation Value Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

Workshop co-chairs

Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

(Brian.Donnellan@nuim.ie)   

Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University

(goran.goldkuhl@liu.se)   

Workshop website

www.vits.org/adwi/