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THE CONSENSING APPROACH TO STRATEGIZING: The Dynamics of Dialogue in Public Sector Digital Transformation
(2024-04-10)This thesis explores the role of consensing, a process of cognitive consensus-building through the mechanisms of sensing and synthesizing, in digital transformation strategy formulation within the Swedish public sector. ... -
EXPERIENCES OF SPEAKING WITH CONVERSATIONAL AI IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
(2023-08-17)This thesis explores the application of digital tools in Swedish language education, specifically in relation to speaking skills. It focuses on dialogue- based, computer-assisted language learning, which enables students ... -
Frame Shifting and Frame Blending in Digital Transformation
(2023-05-04)As organizations embrace digital technologies in new ways, they experience a process known as digital transformation. This process is not just about technological changes – digital transformation also involves ... -
Designing Human-Centered Hybrid Decision Support Systems
(2023-04-19)Innovative decision support systems (DSSs) are revolutionizing key processes in organizations. These systems are used in managerial decision-making to solve increasingly complicated decision tasks, for example, using ... -
Platformization: Digital Materiality at the Limits of Discourse
(2023-04-13)The digital platform has served us well as a metaphor for an imaginary ‘something’ made comprehensible through theories such as matchmaking, externalities, and network effects. But as much as metaphors and theories can ... -
Plug & Play? Stakeholders’ co-meaningmaking of gamification implementations in workplace learning environments
(2023-01-12)This dissertation discusses the implementation process of gamification in organisations’ workplace learning environments, focusing on four stakeholder groups: Administrators, Leaders, Providers and Users. These stakeholder ... -
Användning av mobiltelefoner i den digitaliserade skolan: Elevers och lärares perspektiv
(2022-11-10)På ett övergripande plan problematiserar avhandlingen skolans digitalisering och dess konsekvenser för både elevers och lärares skolvardag. Mer specifikt syftar avhandlingen till att fördjupa kunskapen om användningen av ... -
Making sense of sensing: Learning through Maker-based Civic Engagement
(2022-03-02)In the last decade or two, initiatives engaging the public in scientific activities have become increasingly popular. For example, in air pollution monitoring with Do-it-Yourself (DIY) low-cost sensors. It is a relatively ... -
Workplace Learning in Interactive Service Work: Coming to Practice Differently in the Connected Service Encounter
(2022-01-14)We increasingly live in a world where human and digital work and activities are intertwined in so-called digital networks, which implies changes to the skills demanded by human labour. Traditionally, the professional ... -
Constraints of Digital Transformation
(2022-01-07)Digital transformation is viewed as instrumental in coping with organizational and societal challenges. In the public sector, these challenges include diverse issues, such as demographic changes, constrained financial ... -
Health Information Systems Interoperability: Towards a Managing as Designing Approach
(2021-10-08)Integrated digital healthcare systems promise improved quality public healthcare and patient continued care among others. However, these have been hampered by various challenges including limited data exchanges between ... -
Teaching with Digital Mathematics Textbooks - Activity Theoretical Studies of Data-Driven Technology in Classroom Practices
(2021-09-24)The introduction of digital textbooks, with data-driven functionalities, is a recent trend in mathematics education challenging established teaching practices. This new technology represents a key shift as student datasets ... -
Designing Platform Emulation
(2021-05-25)Many contemporary firms and public agencies seek to engage external third-party developers to supply complementary applications. However, this type of development sometimes occurs without organizational consent, which ... -
Spelet om musiken - Unga musiker spelar digitala musikspel
(2020-11-04)Under de senaste årtiondena har många spelutvecklare, utbildare och forskare argumenterat för att digitala spel bör användas som miljöer för lärande. Vanliga argument har varit att spel är säkra zoner där misslyckanden ... -
Enacting ambidextrous IT governance in healthcare
(2020-05-20)With digitalization, Information Technology (IT) has become an integral part of digital business strategies and future solutions and this calls for organizations to prioritize the governance of IT if they are to succeed ... -
Maternal Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings: Investigations of IT as a resource
(2020-05-15)Maternal mortality is a major problem especially in developing countries. Maternal deaths are partly attributed to the limited access to healthcare and a shortage of medically trained health professionals who can provide ... -
Kritiskt digitalt textarbete i klassrummet
(2020-03-13)Increasingly sophisticated technologies are expanding opportunities to create, use and share digital and multimodal texts based on different perspectives and motives. Among the prerequisites for participating actively in ... -
Digital Distance Education – A Longitudinal Exploration of Video Technology
(2020-01-09)The context of this thesis is digital distance education. Distance education has developed from correspondence courses, based on letters sent by mail between student and teacher, to digital distance education with ... -
Designing Digital Resourcing
(2019-11-29)Digital innovation has become imperative for organizational survival and is increasingly contributing to the growth of national wealth. A central element of digital innovation, brought into light in this dissertation, is ... -
The Emergence of Digital Institutions
(2019-10-04)Pervasive digitalization reshapes identities and processes of public sector providers, ranging from healthcare to education and justice. Recently, significant research attention has been given to such transformations, but ...