Information Systems Research in Scandinavia

The IRIS (Information Systems Research in Scandinavia) Association is a non-profit organization aiming to promote research and research education in the use, development and management of information systems in Scandinavia, and making that research known in the international research community and among practitioners.[1] The IRIS association publishes the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) and holds the IRIS Conference as well as the Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems Conference (SCIS). Its current president is Judith Molka-Danielsen (2011-2013).[2]

IRIS Conferences

In 1978 the IRIS started holding annual conferences and is the oldest consecutive IS conference in the world.[3] The conference is organized as an annual working seminar for Scandinavian researchers and PhD students. After its first few meetings in Finland, the locations now alternate between different Scandinavian countries. Among the subjects discussed at the IRIS conferences is Information and Communications Technology, Business Process Management[4] and Participatory Design.[5] In 2005 IRIS had a Steering Committee the chairman of which was Jan Pries-Heje.[6]

In 2006 Judith Molka-Danielsen, and her associates published a paper that identified the most prolific authors who had successfully submitted papers to IRIS. The top ten researchers were: Lars Mathiassen, Markku Nurminen, Pertti Järvinen, Carsten Sørensen, Per Flensburg, Karl Heinz Kautz, Peter Axel Nielsen, Lars Svensson, Urban Nuldén, and Ole Hanseth.[7]

The next IRIS conference will be held in Oulu, Finland, in August 2015.

Past Conference Locations

See also

References

  1. ↑ Currie, Wendy & Galliers, Robert (1999), Rethinking management information systems: an interdisciplinary perspective, Oxford University Press US, p. 6, Juhani Iivari and Kalle Lyytinen present a comprehensive analysis of information systems research in Scandinavia. These writers argue that the Scandinavian contribution to the IS field has been significant.
  2. ↑ "Executive Board for the IRIS Association:". http://iris.cs.aau.dk: IRIS. Retrieved 8 June 2011. President: Jesper Simonsen, Roskilde University, Denmark
  3. ↑ "Previous IRIS Conferences". http://iris.cs.aau.dk: IRIS. Retrieved 8 June 2011. 1978: IRIS1 Tampere, Finland
  4. ↑ Flensburg, Per (2003), Against System – Towards Content (PDF), Turku, Finnland: Turku Centre for Computer Science, p. 187, Business processes, fetched from a repository, will in the network society be spread over a lot of small and independent actors.
  5. ↑ Jacko, Julie A. (2009), Human-Computer Interaction: Development Process, Reeves & Turner, p. 167, The annual IRIS conference series, often include sessions and individual contributions on participatory topics.
  6. ↑ Currie, Wendy (2005), Business agility and information technology diffusion: IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 international working conference, May 8–11, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., Springer, p. 10, Jan Pries-Heje... is the chairman of the Information Systems Research in Scandinavia (IRIS) Steering Committee.
  7. ↑ Molka-Danielsen, Judith; Trier, Matthias; Shlyk, Vadim; Bobrik, Annette & Nurminen, Markku I. (2006), IRIS (1978-2006)Historical Reflection through Visual Analysis, IRIS, p. 13, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.78.8864 Freely accessible, Table 4 shows the top ten authors that have contributed the most articles to IRIS. We will display the egocentric network of some of these top authors to give an impression of the interconnection of researchers that they have supported.
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