We are delighted to invite you to the 9th International Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in IS (STPIS’23) that will be held on 27th – 28th October at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
STPIS is a conference that focuses on the importance of socio-technical perspective in research and practice. A socio-technical perspective sees an organization as a combination of two components – a social and a technical one. The real pattern of behavior in the organization is determined by how well these parts fit each other. While analyzing system problems of getting things done, adequate consideration should be given to technology as well as informal and formal interactions of people.
Despite that a socio-technical perspective has been around for over a half century, it is often forgotten in the IS discourse today. Consequently, many “new approaches” appear to reflect on IS systems problems, such as modern IT systems poorly adjusted to the external or/and internal environment (e.g., market, organizational culture) of organizations in which they are (to be) deployed. We strongly believe that it is high time the social-technical perspective took its proper place in IS research, practice and teaching.
Last year we accepted 26 great papers and photos from the presentations can be found below.
Alessio Maria Braccini. When Weber goes Digital During a Pandemic. Reflections on the Digitalisation of Bureaucratic Public Sector OrganisationsAnna Sigridur Islind and Helena Vallo Hult. Balancing Overreliance and Mistrust in Data-Driven Decision Making: A Critical View on the Role of Quantified Self in Diabetes Management Haiat Perozzo, Aurelio Ravarini and Fatema Zaghloul. Assessing Cybersecurity Readiness within SMEs: Proposal of a Socio-Technical based ModelAwwal S. Abubakar, Steve Evans, Emanuele G. Margherita and Xiaoxia Chen. The role of People and Digitalization as an Enabler of Resource Efficiency in ManufacturingConference dinnerKeynote speaker: David BojeEric Rebentisch, António Soares, Donna Rhodes, Ricardo Zimmermann and Joana Cardoso. On the use of sociotechnical systems design in industry: digital transformation processes and artifactsMolly Holdsworth and Fatema Zaghloul. The Impact of AI in the UK Healthcare Industry: a Socio-Technical System Theory PerspectiveLinnéa Carlsson, Masood Rangraz and Anna Karin Olsson. Managers’ Percepion of Industral Digitalization in Early Phases of a Pandemic: a Qualitative StudyAne Marthe Ness, Tonje Løfqvist and Magnus Li. Challenges with organizing for solution discovery in socio-technical design projectsMichael Lapke and Jonathan Kaufman. An Application and Validation of the Socio-Technical ModelSteinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir, María Óskarsdóttir, Oddur Ingimarsson and Anna Sigridur Islind. Digital Mental Health: Co-Designing a Digital Platform to Support Work in Psychiatric HealthcareMandana Modiriasari and Thomas Herrmann. SeeMe* – a Process Modelling Notation for socio-technical Requirements-EngineeringTochukwu Ikwunne, Lucy Hederman and P. J. Wall. Co-creating Digital Health Service: Activity Theory and Communicative Ecological Framework AnalysisVilde Christiansen and Lester Allan Lasrado. Towards Managing Analytics for Incumbent Banks: A Maturity ModelAnn Svensson and Helena Vallo Hult. Leading and organizing workplace learning in digital transformationMikko Rajanen. Universal golden rule for human-technology interaction designAudienceMarcus Birath, Johan Ginman and Joakim Kävrestad. A Model for the Creation of Biographical DictionariesSTPISS 2022STPIS 2022Lorentsa Gkinko and Amany Elbanna. AI Chatbots sociotechnical research: An overview and Future DirectionsOn-site crewIva Atanassova and Peter Bednar. Exogenous shocks, Covid 19 and firms’ ability to learn, adapt and evolve
Online crewAnna Lampi, Kaisa Venermo, Markus Salo and Henri Pirkkalainen. “It is better than working with a person” – Affective cues and responses to robots at workSaima Ritonummi, Valtteri Siitonen, Markus Salo and Henri Pirkkalainen. Flow barriers: What prevents software developers from experiencing flow in their work?Eveliina Mali, Tiina Paananen, Lauri Frank and Markus Makkonen. A Customer Perspective on Omnichannel Customer Journey and Channel Usage: A Qualitative StudyKrisjanis Simis and Marite Kirikova. System Roles in Developing Waste Collection Information SystemsValtteri Siitonen, Saima Ritonummi, Markus Salo and Henri Pirkkalainen. The Emergence of Technostress in Software Development Work: Technostressors and Underlying FactorsLars Taxén. A First Principle for Renewing the Sociotechnical PerspectiveTiina Kemppainen, Lauri Frank and Venla Luhtanen. What is meaningful for responsible shoppers in online fashion retail?STPIS 2022 was held in a hybrid format
In addition to the proceedings, we will organize a special issue in Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly where selected papers related to that topic will be invited to be extended and submitted for review to the special issue. These papers will have to pass a double-blind peer review process. More information about the journal is on: https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv.
In addition to that, selected papers related specifically to the topic of socio-technical perspectives on learning and digital work, will be invited to be further extended and submitted to Journal of Workplace Learning. More information about the journal is on: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1366-5626
Socio-Technical Perspectives in Information Systems 