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Aanestad, Margunn

Research Interests (10)

List of Topics (10)

Topic Weight Topic Terms
0.194 information systems paper use design case important used context provide presented authors concepts order number
0.163 critical realism theory case study context affordances activity causal key identifies evolutionary history generative paper
0.153 organizations new information technology develop environment challenges core competencies management environmental technologies development emerging opportunities
0.151 health healthcare medical care patient patients hospital hospitals hit health-care telemedicine systems records clinical practices
0.147 complexity task environments e-business environment factors technology characteristics literature affect influence role important relationship model
0.138 standards interorganizational ios standardization standard systems compatibility effects cooperation firms industry benefits open interoperability key
0.134 infrastructure information flexibility new paper technology building infrastructures flexible development human creating provide despite challenge
0.127 research researchers framework future information systems important present agenda identify areas provide understanding contributions using
0.112 work people workers environment monitoring performance organizations needs physical useful number personal balance perceptions create
0.111 systems information research theory implications practice discussed findings field paper practitioners role general important key

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Grisot, Miria 1 Hanseth, Ole 1 Jacucci, Edoardo 1 Jolliffe, Bob 1
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Article Keywords (12)

action research 1 developing countries 1 electronic patient records 1 health 1
information systems and organizational change 1 inter-organizational information systems 1 India 1 management of IS projects 1
reflexive moderation 1 side effects 1 socio-technical theory 1 Standards 1

Articles (2)

Infrastructuring Work: Building a State-Wide Hospital Information Infrastructure in India (Information Systems Research, 2014)
Authors: Abstract:
    Information and communication technologies that strengthen knowledge-based governance in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) will affect work processes and organizations on a massive scale. This paper draws attention to demands on public sector organizations in resource-constrained contexts that face different challenges than in high-income societies. This paper from the Indian public healthcare sector reports on design, development, implementation, and scaling of a free and open-source software-based hospital information system for district hospitals. The paper focuses on the implications for work, competencies, and organization, building on and extending the concepts of “automate” and “informate.” The paper focuses on the emerging and recursive interplay between information infrastructure and work within the context of organizational realities of a district hospital in an LMIC context, captured by the concepts of “infrastructuring of work” and “work of infrastructuring.”
REFLEXIVE STANDARDIZATION: SIDE EFFECTS AND COMPLEXITY IN STANDARD MAKING. (MIS Quarterly, 2006)
Authors: Abstract:
    This paper addresses the general question proposed by the call of this special issue: "What historical or contingent events and factors influence the creation of ICT standards, and in particular, their success or failure?" Based on a case study conducted over a period of three years in a Norwegian hospital on the standardization process of an electronic patient record (EPR), the paper contributes to the current discussion on the conceptualization of standard-making in the field of Information Systems. By drawing upon the concepts of logic of ordering adopted from actor-network theory and upon reflexivity and the unexpected side effects adopted from reflexive modernization, the paper makes three key contributions: (1) it demonstrates the socio-technical complexity of IS standards and standardization efforts; (2) it shows how complexity generates reflexive processes that undermine standardization aims; and (3) it suggests a theoretical interpretation of standardization complexity by using ideas from complexity theory and the theory of reflexive modernization. These research questions are addressed by offering an historical and contingent analysis of the complexity dynamics emerging from the case.