Pär Ågerfalk
Professor at Department of Informatics and Media
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 10 64
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 02 96
- E-mail:
- par.agerfalk@im.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Campus Gotland, Cramérgatan 3
621 57 Visby - Postal address:
- Uppsala universitet, Campus Gotland
621 67 Visby
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Keywords
- digital practices
- free and open source software
- information systems
- open innovation
- pragmatism
- software engineering
Biography
Pär J. Ågerfalk is a Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he holds the Chair in Information Systems (a.k.a. Computer Science in Intersection with Social Sciences). He received his PhD in Information Systems Development from Linköping University and has held full-time positions at Örebro University, University of Limerick, Jönköping International Business School, and Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre. Prof. Ågerfalk is a Fellow Award recipient and a Distinguished Member Cum Laude of the Association for Information Systems. Internationally recognised for his work on open-source software and distributed agile development, his research addresses various aspects of the orchestration of digital practices. He currently focuses on digital innovation, digital agency, sustainable development, e-health, and how pragmatism can inform systems development and conceptual modelling. His work has appeared in several leading journals and conferences in the information systems field, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of the AIS, and ICIS. Prof. Ågerfalk is a former Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Information Systems, Co-Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Dean of the Swedish National Research School of Management and Information Technology, and founding Chair of the AIS Special Interest Group on Pragmatist IS Research (SIGPrag).
Publications
Selection of publications
- Artificial intelligence as digital agency (2020)
- Conceptualizing Workarounds (2019)
- Voicing the Puppet (2018)
- Situational Method Engineering (2014)
- Insufficient theoretical contribution (2014)
- Two-Stage Offshoring (2008)
- Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce (2008)
Recent publications
- HealthCheck (2024)
- Workarounds in information systems research (2023)
- Designing a Persuasive E-Coaching Application for Informal Caregivers (2023)
- Designing a Mobile e-Coaching App for Immigrant Informal Caregivers (2023)
- Design Suggestions for a Persuasive E-coaching Application (2023)
All publications
Articles
- HealthCheck (2024)
- Designing a Mobile e-Coaching App for Immigrant Informal Caregivers (2023)
- Design Suggestions for a Persuasive E-coaching Application (2023)
- Designing and Evaluating IT Applications for Informal Caregivers (2023)
- Speaking things into existence (2022)
- The Design of a System for Online Psychosocial Care (2022)
- Addressing climate change through stakeholder-centric information systems research (2022)
- Artificial Intelligence in Information Systems (2022)
- Artificial intelligence as digital agency (2020)
- Information systems in the age of pandemics (2020)
- Artefactual and empirical contributions in information systems research (2020)
- Conceptualizing Workarounds (2019)
- Stimulating academic discourse (2019)
- Voicing the Puppet (2018)
- Going through changes (2018)
- Whither design science research? (2018)
- Pragmatizing the normative artifact (2018)
- Scrutinizing Privacy and Accountability in Online Psychosocial Care (2017)
- Publishing and getting published in EJIS (2015)
- Symbolic Action Research in Information Systems (2014)
- Through the Printing Press (2014)
- Insufficient theoretical contribution (2014)
- Ontological and linguistic metamodelling revisited (2013)
- Snowing, freezing... tweeting? (2013)
- Embracing diversity through mixed methods research (2013)
- MC Sandbox (2012)
- Information technology as a change actant in sustainability innovation (2011)
- Rethinking the Meaning of Identifiers in Information Infrastructures (2010)
- Getting Pragmatic (2010)
- Global software development (2009)
- Towards Structured Flexibility in Information Systems Development (2009)
- Exploring agile values in method configuration (2009)
- Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development (2009)
- Benefits of global software development (2009)
- Two-Stage Offshoring (2008)
- Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce (2008)
- The Principle of Identity Cultivation on the Web (2008)
- Global Software Development (2007)
- Designing and Evaluating IT Applications for Informal Caregivers: Scoping Review
Books
- Software Sourcing in the Age of Open (2015)
- Situational Method Engineering (2014)
- Managing Open Innovation Technologies (2012)
- Nordic Contributions in IS Research (2012)
- Agility Across Time and Space (2010)
- Open Source Software (2010)
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web (2008)
Chapters
- Sustaining Sustainability (2016)
- Fundamentals of Agile Distributed Software Development (2010)
- Agility Across Time and Space (2010)
Conferences
- Workarounds in information systems research (2023)
- Designing a Persuasive E-Coaching Application for Informal Caregivers (2023)
- AnhörigCoach: Role of Culture in Persuasive design of E-Coaching Application in the Swedish Context (2022)
- The Role of national culture in the adoption of public e-health systems in Sweden (2021)
- An Educational Interaction Model for Curriculum Design and Evolution (2021)
- Digital Innovation as Design of Digital Practice (2018)
- A Design Science Approach to Information Systems Education (2017)
- On Usefulness in Mandatory Healthcare Settings (2016)
- Software Modelling Languages (2015)
- Not so Shore Anymore (2015)
- Privacy and Accountability in Online Communities (2014)
- The Design of a Multi-layer Scrutiny Protocol to Support Online Privacy and Accountability (2014)
- Boundary Resources Dependency in Third-Party Development from the Developer's Perspective (2013)
- Respondent Behavior Logging (2013)
- Respondent Behavior Logging (2013)
- The Influence of New Product Development on Scrum Practices (2012)
- Identifying Lean Software Development Values (2012)
- Right on track? (2011)
- Mutability Matters (2011)
- The Stolen Identifier (2011)
- Experiences in Global Software Development (2009)
- An Analytic Framework for Design-oriented Research Concepts (2009)
- Method Configuration (2008)
- On the Suitability of Particular Software Development Roles to Global Software Development (2008)
- Innovating the interactive society (2008)
- Benefits of Global Software Development (2008)
- Framing participation in organizational online communities (2008)
- Multi-Grounded Action Research in Method Engineering (2007)
- A reference model for successful Distributed Development of Software Systems (2007)
- Modularization Constructs in Method Engineering (2007)
- Sowing the Seeds of Self (2007)