How to Research Emerging Tech in Information Systems - Professor Juho Lindman, Gothenburg University, Sweden

Tentative programme

Day 1 Wednesday 4 December 2024

9:00-11:00 Introduction to emerging technology in IS

This is an interactive welcome lecture about :

• Emerging technologies – what are they conceptually?

• Emerging technologies – how to research them in IS

• Emerging technologies – examples and seminal papers

11-12 Lunch

12:00- 13:45 Workshop on emerging technology

This is a workshop where we will work with data and cases:

• Exercise: Preparing to write a conceptual or empirical ICIS manuscript on emerging technology (in groups)

• Workshop: Group work on a manuscript

13:45-14:15 Coffee break

14:15 - 16:00 Interactive lecture

This is an interactive lecture on:

• Emerging technologies research – how to publish on emerging tech in IS

• Emerging technologies – how to build networks when tech is not yet there

• Emerging technologies – how to communicate research results when there is a lot of hype

17:00-19:00 Social hour [TBA]

Day 2 Thursday 5 December 2024

9:00-11:00 Participant presentations

This is an interactive workshop on:
• Around the table: checking the status of the groups

• Group work

• Facetime with experts

• Workshop: finalizing and preparing to present the group work

11-12 Lunch

12:00 - 13:45 Participant presentations

Participant group presentations and feedback

13:45-14:15 Coffee break

14:15-15:00 Participant presentations and Summary

Participant group presentations and feedback

15:00 The event ends

Pre-seminar preparation

1. Provide max 4A description of the data or case you will want to work in your group project by email to arto.lanamaki@oulu.fi and juho.lindman@ait.gu.se. Your A4 will be distributed to all seminar participants. Deadline is Monday 3 December. If you don’t have your own data or case, we will provide you with an example.
2. Read the papers in the reading list.
3. Prepare to present your research and provide feedback to others in the seminar.

Readings list

Lindman, J., Rossi, M., and Tuunainen, V.K. (2016). Opportunities and risks of Blockchain Technologies in payments– a research agenda. Proceedings of HICSS50.

Miranda, S., Wang, D., and Chuan Tian. (2022). Discursive Fields and Diversity-Coherence Paradox: An Ecological Perspective on the Blockchain Community Discourse. MIS Quarterly 46:3 pp. 1421-1452 / September 2022

Rotolo, D., Hicks, D., Marten, B. (2015). What is an emerging technology? Research Policy 44 (2015), pp. 1827–1843.

Swanson, B., and Ramiller, N. (1997). The Organizing Vision in Information Systems Innovation. Organization Science, Sep. - Oct., 1997, Vol. 8, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1997), pp. 458-474.

Vergne, JP. (2020). Decentralized vs. Distributed Organization: Blockchain, Machine Learning and the Future of the Digital Platform. Organization Theory, 1: pp. 1–26

Arto Lanamäki (arto.lanamaki(at)oulu.fi)

Lecturer's Bio

Juho Lindman is a Full Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Applied IT at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and the director of the University of Gothenburg Blockchain Lab. In 2019, Juho was a visiting scholar with the SCANCOR-Weatherhead Partnership at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States). Juho was a SCANCOR scholar (Stanford, US) in 2012 and 2015 and a visiting research scholar at the London School of Economics (United Kingdom) in 2010. In information systems, his current research focuses on open-source software development, blockchain governance, open data, and organizational change.