Pär Ågerfalk
Professor at Department of Informatics and Media
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 10 64
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- +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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- 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
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
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
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
Situational Method Engineering
Springer, 2014
Insufficient theoretical contribution: a conclusive rationale for rejection?
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 593-599, 2014
Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as an Offshore Sourcing Strategy
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 385-409, 2008
Two-Stage Offshoring: An Investigation of the Irish Bridge
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 257-279, 2008
Recent publications
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
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
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
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
Artificial intelligence as digital agency
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 1-8, 2020
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
Voicing the Puppet: Accommodating unresolved institutional tensions in digital open practices
Part of Organization Studies, p. 923-945, 2018
Pragmatizing the normative artifact: Design science research in Scandinavia and beyond
Part of Communications of the Association for Information Systems, p. 68-77, 2018
Whither design science research?
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 127-128, 2018
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 1-2, 2018
Scrutinizing Privacy and Accountability in Online Psychosocial Care
Part of IT Professional Magazine, p. 45-51, 2017
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
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
Insufficient theoretical contribution: a conclusive rationale for rejection?
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 593-599, 2014
Symbolic Action Research in Information Systems: Introduction to the Special Issue
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 1187-1200, 2014
Snowing, freezing... tweeting?: Organizational Twitter use during crisis
Part of First Monday, 2013
Ontological and linguistic metamodelling revisited: A language use approach
Part of Information and Software Technology, p. 2099-2124, 2013
Embracing diversity through mixed methods research
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 251-256, 2013
MC Sandbox: Devising a tool for method-user-centered method configuration
Part of Information and Software Technology, p. 501-516, 2012
Information technology as a change actant in sustainability innovation: Insights from Uppsala
Part of Journal of strategic information systems, p. 96-112, 2011
Rethinking the Meaning of Identifiers in Information Infrastructures
Part of Journal of the Association for Information Systems, p. 433-454, 2010
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 251-256, 2010
Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development: State of the Art and Research Challenges
Part of Information systems research, p. 317-328, 2009
Global software development: Where are the benefits?
Part of Communications of the ACM, p. 127-131, 2009
Benefits of global software development: Exploring the unexplored
Part of Software Process, p. 201-212, 2009
Part of Journal of Database Management, p. 51-75, 2009
Exploring agile values in method configuration
Part of European Journal of Information Systems, p. 300-316, 2009
The Principle of Identity Cultivation on the Web
Part of ERCIM News, p. 31-32, 2008
Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as an Offshore Sourcing Strategy
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 385-409, 2008
Two-Stage Offshoring: An Investigation of the Irish Bridge
Part of Management Information Systems Quarterly, p. 257-279, 2008
Global Software Development: How Real are the Benefits?
Part of Engineers Journal, 2007
Articles, review/survey
Designing and Evaluating IT Applications for Informal Caregivers: Scoping Review
Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024
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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
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
Fundamentals of Agile Distributed Software Development
Part of Agility Across Time and Space, p. 3-7, Springer, 2010
Agility Across Time and Space: Summing up and Planning for the Future
Part of Agility Across Time and Space, p. 333-337, Springer, 2010
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
Workarounds in information systems research: A five-year update
Part of ECIS 2023 Proceedings, 2023
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
The Role of national culture in the adoption of public e-health systems in Sweden
Part of Abstract book, 2021
An Educational Interaction Model for Curriculum Design and Evolution
Part of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2021, 2021
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
On Usefulness in Mandatory Healthcare Settings
Part of DIGIT 2016 PROCEEDINGS, 2016
Software Modelling Languages: A Wish List
Part of Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering, p. 72-77, 2015
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
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
Privacy and Accountability in Online Communities: Towards a Theory of Scrutiny
Part of DESIGN SCIENCE, p. 41-51, 2014
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
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
Boundary Resources Dependency in Third-Party Development from the Developer's Perspective
p. 197-211, 2013
The Influence of New Product Development on Scrum Practices
Part of Researching Agile Development of Information Systems (RAISE 2012), 2012
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
Mutability Matters: Baselining the Consequences of Design
2011
Right on track?: Corporate twitter use under pressure
2011
Part of Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2011), Shanghai, China, December 4–7, 2011., 2011
Part of Fourth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Limerick, 13-16 July, 2009, p. 244-248, 2009
An Analytic Framework for Design-oriented Research Concepts
Part of AMCIS 2009, 2009
Part of Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, p. 1-2, 2008
Method Configuration: The eXtreme Programming Case
Part of Agile processes in software engineering and eXtreme programming, p. 32-41, 2008
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
Framing participation in organizational online communities: research challenges
Part of Proc. 31st Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, 2008
Benefits of Global Software Development: The Known and Unknown
Part of Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story, p. 1-9, 2008
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
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
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
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
Conference proceedings (editor)
2012
2010
2008