Sanja Tumbas

Characterizing Multiple Institutional Logics for Innovation with Digital Technologies

Innovating with digital technologies is important for organizations in order to stay competitive in the market. Today, diverse actors drawing on multiple institutions drive such innovations, ranging from engineers, designers and customer facing units, far extending the scope of the IT function which used to lead digital efforts. Still, there is little research on how non-IT functions innovate with digital technologies. Using the lens of institutional logics and affordances, we examine case studies to address this research gap. We find that actors outside of the IT function innovate with digital technologies in various ways because - depending on the combination of institutional logics they draw from - they recognize affordances of digital technologies differently.

Grand Societal Challenges in Information Systems Research and Education

This book examines how information systems research and education can play a major role in contributing to solutions to the Societal Grand Challenges formulated in The Millennium Project (millenium-project.org). Individual chapters focus on specific challenges, review existing approaches and contributionstowards solutions in information systems research and outline a research agenda for these challenges. The topics considered in this volume range from climate change, population growth, global ICT availability, breakthroughs in science and technology and energy demand to ethical decision-making, policymaking, gender status and transnational crime prevention. It is the first book to present ideas on how the Information Systems discipline can contribute to the solution on this wide spectrum of grand societal challenges.