Information Systems Science
Information Systems Science at Aalto University School of Business has a strong focus on empirical studies and active cooperation with companies. Besides theoretical contributions, ISS studies often emphasize practical relevance. Our research deals with adoption, use and impacts of ICT on consumers, companies, and society at large.
We use multi-disciplinary approaches and apply theories from a number of reference disciplines, including management, organization sciences, marketing, and economics. Wide range of both qualitative and quantitative methods are used and often triangulated. Research teams and projects are encouraged. Most projects have both national and international partners, and the results of our research are targeted at top tier academic journals.
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Current research topics
Autonomous vehicles research focuses on user and business perspectives of autonomous vehicle technologies and services. Understanding the users is a key prerequisite for designing sustainable business models utilizing these technologies.
Mobile Games is a set studies (surveys and experiments) into understanding enjoyment in the context of (mobile) gaming. These studies have implications to game design as well as business model design of the companies developing mobile games.
Mobile review research investigates how mobile technology alter users’ review writing behaviour and tendency based on a use of big data.
Text-mining in research profiling utilizes advanced text-mining and visualization tools in conducting large scale literature reviews. The topics investigated range from core ISS research areas to related fields such as digital humanities.
Past and current research projects
SWITCH project studies empirically consumers switching behaviour in the context mobile phones and platforms.
Creative Use project studies the ways in which ICT is used in novel ways in knowledge work related problems both in individual and collaborative settings.
ENACT project studied empirically ERP development. This includes observation of communication and knowledge exchange between the identified ERP development actors.
ManETEI brought together leading European Business Schools, research institutes and a diverse group of industrial partners from different industries, sectors, technologies and countries to create a rigorous collaborative research agenda centered on the multifaceted phenomenon of managing emergent technologies for maximum economic and social impact.
Selected publications
Research methods
Maung Sein, Ola Henfridsson, Sandeep Purao, Matti Rossi, Rikard Lindgren (2011), Action Design Research, MIS Quarterly, 35(2).
Purao, Sandeep, Henfridsson, Ola, Rossi, Matti, & Sein, Maung (2013), Ensemble Artifacts: From Viewing to Designing in Action Design Research, Systems, Signs & Actions, 7(1), pp. 73-81, 2013.
Yong Liu, József Mezei, Kostakos Vassilis, Hongxiu Li. (2017) Applying Configurational Analysis to IS Behavioral Research: A Methodological Alternative for Modelling Combinatorial Complexities, Information Systems Journal (forthcoming)
Open data and open innovation
Lindman, Juho, Kinnari, Tomi, Rossi, Matti (2016), Business Roles in the Emerging Open-Data Ecosystem, IEEE Software, IEEE Software, 33(5), pp. 54 – 59.
Juho, Lindman, Matti, Rossi, &, Anna Paajanen (2011), Choosing Open Source Software License and Corresponding Business Model, IEEE Software (Jul/Aug).
Jarvenpaa, S.L. & Tuunainen, V.K. (2013), Socializing Customers for Co-Creation with Social Media, MIS Quarterly Executive, 12(3), 125-136.
Bragge, J. and Merisalo-Rantanen, H. (2009), Engineering E-Collaboration Processes to Obtain Innovative End-User Feedback on Advanced Web-Based Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10(3), 196-220.
Mobility and consumers
Middleton, C., Scheepers, R. & Tuunainen, V.K (2014), When mobile is the norm: Researching mobile information systems and mobility as post-adoption phenomena, Editorial paper to the Special Issue on Mobile Information Systems and Mobility, European Journal of Information Systems, 23(5), pp. 503-512.
Niina Mallat, Matti Rossi, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen, Anssi Öörni, (2009),The Impact of Use Situation and Mobility on Mobile Services Acceptance: The Case of Mobile Ticketing, Information & Management, 46 (3), pp. 190-195, 2009.
Merikivi, J., Tuunainen, V.K. & Nguyen, D. (2017), What makes continued mobile gaming enjoyable?, Computers in Human Behavior (forthcoming)
Information Systems Scholarship
Yong Liu, Hongxiu Li, Goncalves Jorge, Kostakos Vassilis, Bei Xiao (2017). Fragmentation or Cohesion? Visualizing the Process and Consequences of Information System Diversity 1993-2012. European Journal of Information Systems (forthcoming)
Text-mining in research profiling
Naukkarinen, O. and Bragge, J. (2016), Aesthetics in the Age of Digital Humanities, 2016 Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jac.v8.30072
Bragge, J., Korhonen, P., Wallenius, H. and Wallenius, J. (2012) Scholarly Communities of Research in Multiple Criteria Decision Making: A Bibliometric Research Profiling Study, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, 11(2), 401-426.
Sunikka, A. and Bragge, J. (2012) Applying Text-Mining to Profile Personalization and Customization Research – Who, What and Where?, Expert Systems with Applications, 39(11), 10049-10058.