Journal publications
- Koukouvinou, P,. Simbi, N. and Holmström, J. (accepted). Managing Unbounded Digital Transformation: Exploring the Role of Tensions in a Digital Transformation Initiative in the Forestry Industry. Information Technology and People.
- Mathiassen, L., Jonsson, K and Holmström, J. (accepted). Tensions in transfer, translation and transformation of information: A sociomaterial perspective on heterogeneous work arrangements. Journal of Information Technology.
- Holmström, J. (2022). From AI to Digital Transformation: The AI Readiness Framework. Business Horizons, 65 (3), 329-339.
- Holmström, J.and Hällgren, M (2021). AI Management Beyond the Hype: Exploring the Mutual Shaping of AI and Organizational Context. AI & SOCIETY, 1-11.
- Holmström, J., Magnusson, J. and Mähring, M (2021). Orchestrating Digital Innovation: The Case of the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 48.
- Wimelius, H., Mathiassen, L., Holmström, J. and Keil, M (2021). A paradoxical perspective on technology renewal in digital transformation, Information Systems Journal, 31 (1), 198-225.
- Lindgren, S. and Holmström, J (2020). A social science perspective on artificial intelligence: Building blocks for a research agenda. Journal of Digital Social Research, 2(3), 1-15.
- Sandberg, J., Holmström, J. and Lyytinen, K (2020). Digitization and phase transitions in platform organizing logics: Evidence from the process automation industry. MIS Quarterly. 44(1), pp. 129-153.
- Westergren, U., Holmström, J. and Mathiassen, L (2019). Partnering to Create IT-based Value: A Contextual Ambidexterity Approach. Information and Organization. 29(4).
- Nylen, D. & Holmstrom, J (2019). Digital innovation in context: Exploring serendipitous and unbounded digital innovation at the church of Sweden. Information Technology & People, 32(3), pp. 696-714.
- Arumugam Malar, D., Arvidsson, V. and Holmström, J (2019). Digital transformation in banking: Exploring value co-creation in online banking services in India. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 22(1), pp. 7-24.
- Augustsson, N-P., Nilsson, A., Holmström, J., and Mathiassen, L (2019). Managing digital infrastructures: Negotiating control and drift in service provisioning. International Journal of Business Information Systems, 30 (1), pp. 51-78.
- Öbrand, L., Augustsson, N-P., Mathiassen, L., and Holmström, J (2019). The Interstitiality of IT Risk: An Inquiry into Information Systems Development Practices. Information Systems Journal, 29(1), pp. 97–118.
- Jonsson, K., Mathiassen, L., and Holmström, J (2018). Representation and mediation in digitalized work: Evidence from maintenance of mining machinery. Journal of Information Technology, 33, pp. 216-232.
- Öbrand, L., Holmström, J., and Mathiassen, L (2018). Between a rock and a hard place: Facing dilemmas in IT risk management. Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), Vol. 19 : Iss. 3 , Article 3.
- Öbrand, L., Holmström, J., and Newman, M (2018). Navigating Rumsfeld’s quadrants: A performative perspective on IT risk management. Technology in Society, Vol. 53, pp. 1-8.
- Holmström, J. (2018). Recombination in digital innovation: Challenges, opportunities, and the importance of a theoretical framework. Information and Organization, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 107-110.
- May, S., Königsson, M., and Holmstrom, J. (2017). Unlocking the sharing economy: Investigating the barriers for the sharing economy in a city context. First Monday, 22(2).
- Nylén, D. and Holmström, J (2015). Digital Innovation Strategy: A Framework for Improving Digital Product and Service Innovation. Business Horizons, 58(1), pp. 57-67.
- Sandberg, J., Holmström, J., Napier, N. and Levén, P (2015). Balancing Diversity in Innovation Networks: Trading Zones in University-Industry R&D Collaboration. European Journal of Innovation Management, 18(1), pp. 44-69.
- Augustsson, N-P., Holmström, J. and Nilsson, A (2015). From Technological Transitions to Service Transitions: A Study of Attenuation Effects in IT Service Provisioning. Journal of Information Technology Services, Vol.14, No.2, 337-354.
- Holmström, J (2015). File sharing beyond grabbing and running: Exploring the sense of community in a peer-to-peer file sharing network. Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 21(4): 437-449.
- Nylén, D., Holmström, J and Lyytinen, K (2014). Oscillating Between Four Orders of Design: The Case of Digital Magazines. Design Issues 30(3), pp. 53-68.
- Arvidsson, V., Holmström, J and Lyytinen, K (2014). Information Systems Use as Strategy Practice: A Multi-dimensional View of Strategic Information System Implementation and Use. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems 23(1), pp. 45-61.
- Levén, P., Holmström, J. and Mathiassen, L (2014). Managing research and innovation networks: Evidence from a government sponsored cross-industry program. Research Policy, Vol. 43, Issue 1, pp. 156-168.
- Arvidsson, V. and Holmström, J (2013). Social Media Strategy: Understanding Social Media, IT Strategy, and Organizational Responsiveness in Times of Crisis. Cutter IT Journal, December issue, pp. 18-23.
- Hsieh, JJ., Keil, M., Holmström, J. and Kvasny, L (2012). The Bumpy Road to Universal Access: An Actor-Network Analysis of a US Municipal Broadband Internet Initiative. The Information Society, Vol. 28, No. 4. pp. 264-283.
- Westergren, U and Holmström, J (2012). Exploring Preconditions for Open Innovation: Value Networks in Industrial Firms. Information and Organization, 22, pp. 209-226.
- Levén, P. and Holmström, J (2012). Regional IT Innovation: A Living Lab Approach. International Journal of Innovation and Regional Innovation. Vol 4., No. 2, pp. 129-143.
- Holmström, J. and Sawyer, S (2011). Requirements engineering blinders: exploring information systems developers’ black-boxing of the emergent character of requirements. European Journal of Information Systems. Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 34-47.
- Holmström, J and Truex, D (2011). Dropping your tools: Exploring when and how theories can serve as blinders in IS research. Communications of the AIS, vol 28 (1), 283-294.
- Jonsson, Levén, P and Holmström, J (2010). Organizational dimensions of e-maintenance: A multi-contextual perspective. International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management. 1(3), pp. 210-218.
- Jonsson, K., Holmström, J., Lyytinen, K and Nilsson, A (2010). Desituating Context in Ubiquitous Computing: Exploring Strategies for the Use of Remote Diagnostic Systems for Maintenance Work. International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, vol 2, nr 3, pp. 40-55.
- Jonsson, K., Holmström, J., and Lyytinen K (2009). Turn to the material: Remote diagnostics and new forms of boundary-spanning. Information and Organization, 19, pp. 233-252.
- Holmström, J and Tetzlaff, J (2009). Enabling or Inhibiting? Exploring the Impact of Information Technology on Lean Manufacturing. Journal of Information Technology Management, Volume XX, Number 2, pp. 22-34.
- Jonsson, K., Westergren, U., and Holmström, J. (2008). Technologies for value creation: An exploration of the remote diagnostics challenge in ubiquitous computing environments. Information Systems Journal, vol 18, pp. 227–245.
- Rönnbäck, L., Holmström, J., and Hanseth, O (2007). Exploring IT integration challenges: the Case of SCA Packaging. Industrial Management and Data Systems, pp. 1276 – 1289.
- Truex, D., Holmström, J., and Keil, M. (2006). Theorizing in information systems research. A confessional tale of the adaptation of escalation theory to information systems research. Journal of the Association of Information Systems, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 797-821.
- Holmström, J., and Boudreau, M-C. (2006). Communicating and coordinating: Occasions for information technology in loosely coupled organizations. Information Resources Management Journal, 19(4), pp. 23-38.
- Holmström, J. (2005). Theorizing in IS research: What comes first and what comes after? Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 17(1): 167-174.
- Mähring, M., Holmström, J., Keil, M. and Montealegre, R. (2004). Trojan Actor-Networks and Swift Translation: Bringing Actor-Network Theory to Project Escalation Studies. Information Technology & People, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2004, pp. 210-238.
- Robey, D., and Holmström, J (2001). Transforming Municipal Governance in Global Context: A Case Study of the Dialectics of Social Change. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 4(4), pp. 19-31.
- Holmström, J., and Stalder, F (2001). Drifting technologies and multi-purpose network: the case of the Swedish cashcard. Information and Organization, 11, pp. 187-206.
- Henfridsson, O., Holmström, J., and Söderholm, A. (1997). Why are organizational theories so rarely used in Scandinavian IS research? Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 9(2), 53-56.
- Henfridsson, O., Holmström, J., and Söderholm, A. (1997). Beyond the Common Sense of Practice – A Case for Organizational Informatics. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 9(1), 47-56.
Books and book chapters
- Holmström, J, and Robey, D (2020). Materiality and Organizing: Actor-Network Theory Revisited. In Czarniawska, B and Hernes, T (eds). Actor-Network Theory and Organizing. Lund: Studentlitteratur, pp. 177-202.
- Sandberg J., Holmström J, and Lyytinen K. (2019). Digital Transformation of ABB Through Platforms: The Emergence of Hybrid Architecture in Process Automation. In: Urbach N., Röglinger M. (eds) Digitalization Cases. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham
- Arvidsson, V, and Holmström, J (2018). Digitalization as a Strategy Practice: What is there to Learn from Strategy as Practice Research? In Galliers, R. D. & Stein, M-K. (eds). The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems. London: Routledge, pp. 218-231.
- Holmström, J (2014). Leadership in context: Notes on sharing vision as a key for transformational academic leadership. In Hällgren, M (ed). Reflections on a scientific career: Behind the professor’s CV. Copenhagen: CBS Press, pp. 55-64.
- Holmström, J (2012). On the shoulders of giants: Understanding internet-based generative platforms. In Teigland, R & Power, D (eds). Postcards from the metaverse. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-213.
- Holmström, J., Wiberg, M, and Lund, A (2010). Industrial Informatics: Design, Use and Innovation. IGI Global. (edited book).
- Holmström, J., Wiberg, M, and Lund, A (2010). Industrial Informatics: What We Know and What We Don’t Know. In Holmström et al. (eds), Industrial Informatics: Design, Use and Innovation. IGI Global. pp. 1-4.
- Holmström, J., Mathiassen, L., Sandberg, J. and Wimelius, H (2010). Green IS: Steps towards a research agenda. In Holmström et al. (eds), Industrial Informatics: Design, Use and Innovation. IGI Global. pp. 187-195.
- Tetzlaff, J & Holmström, J (2010). Organizational effects of information technology: Investigating information technology use in the context of lean manufacturing. In Holmström et al. (eds), Industrial Informatics: Design, Use and Innovation. IGI Global, pp. 157-173.
- Augustsson, N-P & Holmström, J (2010). Living on the edge: Balancing rigor and relevance within an action research context. In Holmström et al. (eds), Industrial Informatics: Design, Use and Innovation. IGI Global. pp. 102-121.
- Holmström, J (2008). Digitala värden och nätverk som social princip. In Cronqvist, M (ed) Hållbara värden: åtta essäer om tingens ordning och idéers bärkraft, pp. 101-116.
- Boudreau, M-C, and Holmström, J (2007). Understanding Information Technology Implementation Failure: An Interpretive Case Study of Information Technology Adoption in a Loosely Coupled Organization. In Bello & Khosrow-Pour (eds.) Innovative Technologies for Information Resources Management, IDEA-group Inc.
- Holmström, J (2006). Nätverksekonomins rationaliteter och irrationaliteter: Om innovationsprocesser i informationsteknikens kölvatten. In Jacobsson, R (ed.) THULE – Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundets årsbok (only in Swedish).
- Holmström, J., and Robey, D. (2005). Understanding IT’s organizational consequences: An actor network theory approach. pp. 165-187. In Czarniawska, B. and Hernes, T. (eds.) Actor-Network Theory and Organizing. Stockholm: Liber.
- Holmström, J. (2004). Mobile IT as Immutable Mobiles? Exploring the Enabling Qualities of a Mobile IT Application. In Wiberg, M. (Ed.) The Interaction Society: Practice, Theories, and Supportive Technologies, IDEA-group Inc.).
- Holmström, J. (2000). Information system and organization as multi-purpose network (Ph.D dissertation). Umeå: Umeå University.
Conference publications
- Sundberg, L & Holmström, J. (2022). Are AI Opportunities Discovered or Created? Investigating Data Resourcing Using a No-code AI Platform in an Educational Context. In Americas Conference on Information Systems.
- Kostis, A., Sundberg, L., Holmström, J., & Henfridsson, O. (2022). Training the machine: an ethnographic account of slack data calibration in a deep learning initiative. In DBOSI 2022, 4th Nordic Workshop on Digital Foundations of Business, Operations, Strategy and Innovation, Umeå, Sweden, February 10-11, 2022.
- Kostis, A., Holmström, J., & Haefliger, S. (2022). Resilient organizations and emerging infrastructural relations: the making of digital resilience. In DBOSI 2022, 4th Nordic Workshop on Digital Foundations of Business, Operations, Strategy and Innovation, Umeå, Sweden, February 10-11, 2022.
- Kostis, A and Holmström, J. (2022). Dealing with uncertainty in deep learning by data sourcing, data filtering, data swapping, and algorithmic templating: Evidence from data work creativity in pursuing AI opportunities. Reshaping Work 2022 Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 13-14, 2022.
- Kostis, A., Holmström, J., & Haefliger, S. (2022). Resilient users and emerging infrastructural relations: the making of digital resilience. Academy of Management Proceedings.
- Mankevich, V., Holmström, J., & McCarthy, I. P. (2019). Why Zlatan Ibrahimović is Bigger Than Manchester United: Investigating Digital Traces in Co-branding Processes on Social Media Platforms. In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019, 8-11 January, Maui, USA (pp. 2729-2738).
- Mankevich, V., Lindberg A. and Holmström, J (2018). Better Safe Than Sorry? Investigating Big Data Evangelists and Their Value Propositions. Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy. Academy of Management Specialized Conference, University of Surrey, UK.
- Mankevich, V & Holmström, J (2016). Gateways to Digital Entrepreneurship: Investigating the Organizing Logics for Digital Startups. Proceedings of Academy of Management, Anaheim, California.
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Jonsson, K., Mathiassen, L., & Holmström, J. (2016). The Architecture and Materiality of IT-enabled Services: An Investigation into Appropriation of Remote Diagnostics Technology. In International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
- Nylén, D & Holmström, J (2016). The Digitalization of Faith: Exploring Unbounded Digital Innovation at the Church of Sweden. Presented at the “Organizing for Digital Innovation” Workshop in Amsterdam, March 11-12, 2016.
- Nylén, D., Holmström, J. & Lyytinen, K (2015). Racing With or Against the Machines? The Digitalization of Work across the Swedish Forestry Industry Value Chain. Presented at pre-ICIS Workshop on the Changing Nature of Work. Ft Worth, Texas, December 12, 2015.
- Mankevich, V., Skog, D., Wimelius, H. and Holmström, J (2015). The hero with a hundred faces: the role of coopetition in innovation network evolution. Presented at Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual International Conference, The Interplay of Competition and Cooperation: Workshop and Discussion Forum.
- Skog, D. A., Mankevich, V., Wimelius, H. & Holmström, J (2014). Innovation Network Dynamics and the Role of Coopetition: Investigating Innovation Network Evolution. 6th Workshop on Coopetition Strategy – “Coopetition Strategy and Practice”. Umeå, Sweden.
- Sandberg, J., Holmström, J & Lyytinen, K (2013). Platform Change: Theorizing the Evolution of Hybrid Product Platforms in Process Automation. Platform Strategy Research Symposium, Boston, MA, USA.
- Öbrand, L & Holmström, J (2013). Recalcitrant technologies and unfolding technologies: Exploring epistemic strategies in IT risk management. EGOS, Montreal.
- Arvidsson, V., Holmström, J & Lyytinen, K (2012). Information Systems Strategy-asPractice. AIS SIG Prag Workshop on IT Artefact Design & Workpractice Intervention, June 10, 2012, Barcelona.
- Skog, D. A., Nylén, D. and Holmström, J. (2012). Digital convergence from within and without: Investigating digitalization and its implications for a local newspaper. Presented at The 2012 International Symposium on Media Innovations. Oslo, Norway.
- Öbrand, L., Augustsson, N-P., Holmström, J & Mathiassen, L (2012). The Emergence of Information Infrastructure Risk Management in IT Services. In the proceedings of HICSS-45.
- Nylén, D & Holmström, J (2011). From forestry machines to sociotechnical hybrids: Investigating the use of digitally enabled forestry machines. In the proceedings of the IFIP WG8.2 conference in Turku, Finland.
- Rönnbäck, L & Holmström, J (2011) A Case Against the Checklist Approach: Exploring Epistemic Strategies in IT Risk Management. In NFF 2011, Nordic Academy of Management), Stockholm, Sweden.
- Holmström, J., Sandberg, J. & Mathiassen, L (2011). Educating Reflective Practitioners: The Design of an IT Management Masters Program. In the proceedings of the 17th AMCIS conference, Detroit, Michigan.
- Nylén, D., Holmström, J & Levén, P (2011). Digital convergence or digital clash?: Exploring organizational adoption of social media in the newspaper industry. In NFF 2011, Nordic Academy of Management), Stockholm, Sweden.
- Jonsson, K., Levén, P & Holmström, J (2010). From reactive to predictive e-maintenance. In 1st International Workshop and Congress on eMaintenance, Luleå 2010.
- Augustsson, N-P., Nilsson, A & Holmström, J (2010). The Role of Context in Managing Information Infrastructure Services. In the Proceedings for ICIS 2010, St Louis, MO, USA.
- Sandberg, J., Holmström, J, and Lyytinen, K (2010). Decelerated IT Innovation: Negotiating Global IT Innovation Initiatives in Local Settings. Proceedings of the HICSS conference, Hawaii, USA.
- Sandberg, J., Holmström, J & Levén, P (2009). Overcoming the alliance/innovation paradox. In the proceedings of IRIS 32, Molde, Norway.
- Sandberg, J & Holmström, J (2008) From drift to control. In the proceedings of IRIS 31, Åre, Sweden.
- Rönnbäck, L and Holmström, J (2008). Running to stand still : Examining the role of information technology in industrial risk management. In the proceedings of ECIS 2008.
- Westergren, U and Holmström, J (2008). Outsourcing as open innovation: Exploring trust as a precondition for the open innovation model in the process industry. In the proceedings of ICIS, Paris, France.
- Rönnbäck, L and Holmström, J (2008). Attention shaping in risk assessment processes: An action research study. In the proceedings of IRIS31.
- Levén, P, and Holmström, J (2008). Consumer co-creation and the ecology of innovation: A living lab approach. In the proceedings of IRIS31.
- Truex, D., and Holmström, J (2007). Dropping Your Tools: the Diversification of the Research Agenda in Organizational Dynamics of Technology-based Innovation, proceedings of the IFIP 8.6 conference in Manchester, England.
- Holmström, J., & Truex, D. (2006). Drop your tools: Exploring theoretical explanations of technological change. ALOIS 2006.
- Rönnbäck, L., Jonny Holmström, J., Hanseth, O., Borg, T., Frykman, A., & Thomsson, S. (2006). Changing the installed base: Exploring IT integration challenges in the process industry. Proceedings of IRIS 29.
- Jonsson, K., and Holmström, J. (2005). Ubiquitous computing and the double immutability of remote diagnostics technology: An exploration into six cases of remote diagnostics technology use (In the proceedings of the IFIP 8.2 conference, Cleveland, Ohio).
- Jonsson, K., Westergren, U. H. & Holmström, J. (2004) Technologies for value creation: An exploration of embedded systems use in a business model context. Presented as Plenary Paper The 27th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (Iris 27), Falkenberg, August 14-17.
- Jonsson, K., Westergren, U. H., Holmström, J., and Levén, P (2003). Technology as an actor in value chain transitions: Developing after market processes with embedded systems. Presented at WISC 2003, Örebro.
- Johansson, B-M., and Holmström, J. (2003). Richness or Reach? Exploring the activities and consequences of customer communication. Presented at WISC 2003, Örebro.
- Holmström, J., and Truex, D. (2003). Social Theory in IS research: Some Recommendations for Informed Adaptation of Social Theories in IS research. Americans Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), August 4-5, Tampa, FL.
- Augustsson, N-P., Persson, T., and Holmström, J. (2003). The role of visualization techniques in infrastructure projects: Towards a technology-centered sociology of projects. NFF 2003, Reykiavik, Iceland.
- Persson, T., Augustsson, N-P, and Holmström, J (2003). From tool to actor: The role of visualization techniques in the Botnia track project. Presented at the 26th IRIS conference in Porvoo, Finland.
- Holmström, J., and Truex, D (2001). What does it mean to be an informed IS researcher? Recommendations for selection and use of social theories in IS research. IRIS 24, Bergen, Norway.
- Holmström, J. (2001). Bringing technology back to the study of the socio-technical. How information technology enables and inhibits social action. 16:e nordiska företagsekonomiska ämneskonferensen, Uppsala.
- Henfridsson, O., and Holmström, J (2001). Understanding bottom-up e-commerce: The dialectics of domestication and inscription in the context of people’s everyday lives. 16:e nordiska företagsekonomiska ämneskonferensen, Uppsala.
- Holmström, J. (1999). “It’s as if Somebody Closed the Door.” On the Limits of Organizational Change Around Information Technology. In Pries-Heje, J et al., (Eds.): Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen Business School: Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 320-329.
- Henfridsson, O., Holmström, J., and Söderholm, A. (1997). Organizational Informatics – On the Notion of Organization in Scandinavian Information Systems Research. In K. Braa & E. Monteiro (Eds.), Proceedings of IRIS20: Social Informatics. Oslo: Department of informatics, University of Oslo.
- Holmström, J., and Stolterman, E (1996). Creativity, Communication and Systems Design Methodology. In Dahlbom, B (Ed.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Information Systems Research Seminar In Scandinavia. Gothenburg: Department of Informatics.
- Holmström, J. (1995). The Power of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Power. On the Systems Designer as a Translator of Rationalities. In Dahlbom, B (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Information Systems Research Seminar In Scandinavia. Gothenburg: Department of Informatics.
Teaching Case
- Appelgate, L., Nylén, D., Holmström, J., & Lyytinen, K (2012). Bonnier: Digitalizing the Media Business. Harvard Business School Case 813-073, November 2012.
Reports
- Holmström, J (2020). Digital Transformation of the Swedish forestry value chain: Key bottlenecks and pathways forward. Stockholm: Mistra Digital Forest.
- Holmström, J. & Skog, D (2020). Towards the circular economy in the Swedish biobased industry: Leveraging the value of digitalization and artificial intelligence. Stockholm: BioInnovation.
- Holmström, J. & Persson, A (2017). Informatik: En ämnesöversikt. Working Paper, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden.