Syllabus

Core 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 s?ml?s integrasjon ?¡± Tapir Akademisk Forlag. Translated from Norwegian.
• 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.
• Bansler, J. (1989). "Systems Development Research in Scandinavia: Three Theoretical Schools". Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 1, pp. 3-20.
• 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.
• 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. and Bygstad, B (2018).Platformization, Infrastructuring and Platform-oriented Infrastructures. A Norwegian e-Health Case, In review, MISQ.
• 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. (2012). "Generative Information Infrastructure Architectures: A Longitudinal Study of eHealth Infrastructures in Norway". University of Oslo, Department of Informatics, Unpublished Manuscript.
• 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. (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.
• Nicholson, B. et al (2018), "Global sourcing and development: New drivers, models, and impacts", Information Systems Journal, 28, pp. 523-537.
• Orlikowski, W. J. (2000). Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations. Organization Science, 11(4), 404-428.
• de Reuver, M. et al (2018), "The digital platform: a research agenda", Journal of Information Technology, 33, pp. 124-135.
• Rodon, J. and Hanseth, O. (2017). "Understanding the Dynamics of Architecture-Governance Configurations". Unpublished Manuscript.
• Sahay, S., Nielsen, P. Faujdar, D., Kumar, R., and Mukerhjee, A. (2018). "Frugal Digital Innovation and Living Labs: A Case Study of Innovation in Public Health in India", 39th International Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, USA.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• Corradi, G., Gherardi, S., & Verzelloni, L. (2010). Through the practice lens: Where is the bandwagon of practice-based studies heading?. Management learning, 41(3), 265-283.
• Feldman, M. S., & Orlikowski, W. J. (2011). Theorizing practice and practicing theory. Organization Science, 22(5), 1240-1253.
• Ghazawneh, A. and Henfridsson, O. "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 et al (in review), Data-work for personalized care: examining nurses¡¯ practices in remote monitoring of chronic patients, special issue on Data Work, 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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. 
• Provan, K. G. and Kenis, P. (2008). "Modes of Network Governance: Structure, Management, and Effectiveness". 18 (2), pp. 229-252
• Rollan, 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.
• Staring, K., and Titlestad, O. H. (2008). "Development as Free Software: Extending Commons Based Peer Production to the South". ICIS 2008 Proceedings. 50.
• 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.
• Van Maanen, J. (1988). "Confessional Tales". In "Tales of the field: On writing ethnography", Chapter 4, pp. 73-100, University Of Chicago Press, USA.