Pär Ågerfalk
Director at Guto - The Sustainable Development and Digitalization Centre
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 02 96
- E-mail:
- par.agerfalk@im.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Dag Hammarskjölds väg 7
- Postal address:
- Box 256
751 05 UPPSALA
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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- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-3241-342X
Short presentation
Pär J. Ågerfalk is Professor and Chair in Information Systems. His current research focuses on digital agency and AI, digital infrastructure design, and digital sustainability. He is a Fellow of the AIS and currently Vice President of Region 2 on the AIS Council.
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- software engineering
- information systems
- open innovation
- pragmatism
- digital practices
- digital sustainability
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
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Artificial Intelligence in Information Systems: State of the Art and Research Roadmap
Part of Communications of the Association for Information Systems, p. 420-438, 2022
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Speaking things into existence: Ontological foundations of identity representation and management
Part of Information Systems Journal, p. 33-60, 2022
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Artificial intelligence as digital agency
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 1-8, 2020
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Conceptualizing Workarounds: Meanings and Manifestations in Information Systems Research
Part of Communications of the Association for Information Systems, p. 340-363, 2019
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Voicing the Puppet: Accommodating unresolved institutional tensions in digital open practices
Part of Organization Studies, p. 923-945, 2018
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Situational Method Engineering
Springer, 2014
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Insufficient theoretical contribution: a conclusive rationale for rejection?
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 593-599, 2014
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Two-Stage Offshoring: An Investigation of the Irish Bridge
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 257-279, 2008
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Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as an Offshore Sourcing Strategy
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 385-409, 2008
Recent publications
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Part of Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2025
- DOI for Turning Conceptual Modeling Institutional - The prescriptive role of conceptual models in transforming institutional reality
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Designing and Evaluating IT Applications for Informal Caregivers: Scoping Review
Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024
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HealthCheck: A Method for Evaluating Persuasive Mobile Health Applications
Part of Health Informatics Journal, 2024
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Workarounds in information systems research: A five-year update
Part of ECIS 2023 Proceedings, 2023
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Designing and Evaluating IT Applications for Informal Caregivers: Protocol for a Scoping Review
Part of JMIR Research Protocols, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2025
- DOI for Turning Conceptual Modeling Institutional - The prescriptive role of conceptual models in transforming institutional reality
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HealthCheck: A Method for Evaluating Persuasive Mobile Health Applications
Part of Health Informatics Journal, 2024
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Design Suggestions for a Persuasive E-coaching Application: A Study on Informal Caregivers' Needs
Part of Digital Health, p. 1-12, 2023
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Part of JMIR mhealth and uhealth, 2023
- DOI for Designing a Mobile e-Coaching App for Immigrant Informal Caregivers: Qualitative Study Using the Persuasive System Design Model
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Artificial Intelligence in Information Systems: State of the Art and Research Roadmap
Part of Communications of the Association for Information Systems, p. 420-438, 2022
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Part of International Journal of Information Management, 2022
- DOI for Addressing climate change through stakeholder-centric information systems research: A Scandinavian approach for the masses
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Part of Journal of the Association for Information Systems, p. 237-263, 2022
- DOI for The Design of a System for Online Psychosocial Care: Balancing Privacy and Accountability in Sensitive Online Healthcare Environments
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Speaking things into existence: Ontological foundations of identity representation and management
Part of Information Systems Journal, p. 33-60, 2022
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Artefactual and empirical contributions in information systems research
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 109-113, 2020
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Artificial intelligence as digital agency
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 1-8, 2020
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Information systems in the age of pandemics: COVID-19 and beyond
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 203-207, 2020
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Conceptualizing Workarounds: Meanings and Manifestations in Information Systems Research
Part of Communications of the Association for Information Systems, p. 340-363, 2019
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Stimulating academic discourse: a call for response
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 1-5, 2019
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Voicing the Puppet: Accommodating unresolved institutional tensions in digital open practices
Part of Organization Studies, p. 923-945, 2018
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Pragmatizing the normative artifact: Design science research in Scandinavia and beyond
Part of Communications of the Association for Information Systems, p. 68-77, 2018
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Whither design science research?
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 127-128, 2018
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Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 1-2, 2018
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Scrutinizing Privacy and Accountability in Online Psychosocial Care
Part of IT Professional Magazine, p. 45-51, 2017
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Publishing and getting published in EJIS: marshaling contributions for a diversity of genres
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 559-568, 2015
- DOI for Publishing and getting published in EJIS: marshaling contributions for a diversity of genres
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Through the Printing Press: An Account of Open Practices in the Swedish Newspaper Industry
Part of Journal of the Association for Information Systems, p. 779-804, 2014
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Insufficient theoretical contribution: a conclusive rationale for rejection?
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 593-599, 2014
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Symbolic Action Research in Information Systems: Introduction to the Special Issue
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 1187-1200, 2014
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Snowing, freezing... tweeting?: Organizational Twitter use during crisis
Part of First Monday, 2013
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Ontological and linguistic metamodelling revisited: A language use approach
Part of Information and Software Technology, p. 2099-2124, 2013
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Embracing diversity through mixed methods research
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 251-256, 2013
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MC Sandbox: Devising a tool for method-user-centered method configuration
Part of Information and Software Technology, p. 501-516, 2012
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Information technology as a change actant in sustainability innovation: Insights from Uppsala
Part of Journal of strategic information systems, p. 96-112, 2011
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Rethinking the Meaning of Identifiers in Information Infrastructures
Part of Journal of the Association for Information Systems, p. 433-454, 2010
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Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 251-256, 2010
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Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development: State of the Art and Research Challenges
Part of Information systems research, p. 317-328, 2009
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Global software development: Where are the benefits?
Part of Communications of the ACM, p. 127-131, 2009
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Exploring agile values in method configuration
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 300-316, 2009
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Benefits of global software development: Exploring the unexplored
Part of Software Process, p. 201-212, 2009
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Part of Journal of Database Management, p. 51-75, 2009
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Two-Stage Offshoring: An Investigation of the Irish Bridge
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 257-279, 2008
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Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as an Offshore Sourcing Strategy
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 385-409, 2008
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The Principle of Identity Cultivation on the Web
Part of ERCIM News, p. 31-32, 2008
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Global Software Development: How Real are the Benefits?
Part of Engineers Journal, 2007
Articles, review/survey
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Designing and Evaluating IT Applications for Informal Caregivers: Scoping Review
Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024
- DOI for Designing and Evaluating IT Applications for Informal Caregivers: Scoping Review
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Designing and Evaluating IT Applications for Informal Caregivers: Protocol for a Scoping Review
Part of JMIR Research Protocols, 2023
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Books
Chapters in book
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Sustaining Sustainability: Investigating the Long-Term Effects of a Sustainability Initiative
Part of Nordic Contributions in IS Research, p. 86-99, Springer International Publishing, 2016
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Agility Across Time and Space: Summing up and Planning for the Future
Part of Agility Across Time and Space, p. 333-337, Springer, 2010
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Fundamentals of Agile Distributed Software Development
Part of Agility Across Time and Space, p. 3-7, Springer, 2010
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
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Workarounds in information systems research: A five-year update
Part of ECIS 2023 Proceedings, 2023
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Designing a Persuasive E-Coaching Application for Informal Caregivers
Part of Caring is Sharing, p. 922-926, 2023
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AnhörigCoach: Role of Culture in Persuasive design of E-Coaching Application in the Swedish Context
2022
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The Role of national culture in the adoption of public e-health systems in Sweden
Part of Abstract book, 2021
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An Educational Interaction Model for Curriculum Design and Evolution
Part of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2021, 2021
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Digital Innovation as Design of Digital Practice: Doctors as Designers in Healthcare
Part of Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), p. 4594-4601, 2018
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A Design Science Approach to Information Systems Education
Part of Designing The Digital Transformation, Desrist 2017, p. 383-397, 2017
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On Usefulness in Mandatory Healthcare Settings
Part of DIGIT 2016 PROCEEDINGS, 2016
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Software Modelling Languages: A Wish List
Part of Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering, p. 72-77, 2015
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Not so Shore Anymore: The New Imperatives When Sourcing in the Age of Open
Part of Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Information Systems, 2015
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Privacy and Accountability in Online Communities: Towards a Theory of Scrutiny
Part of DESIGN SCIENCE, p. 41-51, 2014
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The Design of a Multi-layer Scrutiny Protocol to Support Online Privacy and Accountability
Part of Advancing the Impact of Design Science, p. 85-98, 2014
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Respondent Behavior Logging: An Opportunity for Online Survey Design
Part of Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design, p. 511-518, 2013
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Respondent Behavior Logging: An Opportunity for Online Survey Design
Part of Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design, p. 511-518, 2013
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Boundary Resources Dependency in Third-Party Development from the Developer's Perspective
p. 197-211, 2013
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The Influence of New Product Development on Scrum Practices
Part of Researching Agile Development of Information Systems (RAISE 2012), 2012
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Identifying Lean Software Development Values
Part of Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2012), Barcelona, Spain, June 10–13, 2012., 2012
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Mutability Matters: Baselining the Consequences of Design
2011
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Right on track?: Corporate twitter use under pressure
2011
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Part of Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2011), Shanghai, China, December 4–7, 2011., 2011
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Part of Fourth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Limerick, 13-16 July, 2009, p. 244-248, 2009
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An Analytic Framework for Design-oriented Research Concepts
Part of AMCIS 2009, 2009
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Benefits of Global Software Development: The Known and Unknown
Part of Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story, p. 1-9, 2008
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Part of Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, p. 1-2, 2008
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On the Suitability of Particular Software Development Roles to Global Software Development
Part of Proceedings of the The 3rd International Conference on Global Software Engineering. ICGSE 2008. Bangalore, 17-20 Aug. 2008., p. 3-12, 2008
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Method Configuration: The eXtreme Programming Case
Part of Agile processes in software engineering and eXtreme programming, p. 32-41, 2008
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Framing participation in organizational online communities: research challenges
Part of Proc. 31st Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, 2008
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A reference model for successful Distributed Development of Software Systems
Part of Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, p. 130-139, 2007
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Multi-Grounded Action Research in Method Engineering: The MMC Case
Part of Proceedings of IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Situational Method Engineering, p. 19-32, 2007
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Modularization Constructs in Method Engineering: Towards Common Ground?
Part of Proceedings of IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Situational Method Engineering, p. 359-368, 2007
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Sowing the Seeds of Self: A Socio-pragmatic Penetration of the Web Artefact
Part of Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Pragmatic web, p. 1-8, 2007
Conference proceedings (editor)
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2012
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2010
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2008