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Curriculum Vitae

Jonny Holmström, PhD
Department of Informatics
Umeå University
901 87 Umeå
Sweden


+ 46 90 786 9766

jonny.holmstrom@informatik.umu.se




Positions

Associate professor (in Swedish: docent), Department of Informatics, Umeå University (2004-present time).

Assistant professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University (2000-2004).

Research Manager, E-business Management Group, at the Center for Digital Business, Umeå University (2001-present time).

Visiting scholar, Decision Sciences and Information Systems Department, College of Business Administration, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (February-May, 2004).

Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Information Systems, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, (2000-2001).

Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Information Systems, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, (June-August 2002).

University lecturer, Department of Informatics, Umeå University (1995-2000).

Education

PhD in Informatics, Umeå University 2000

Thesis: Information system and organization as multipurpose network. Advisors: Associate professor Erik Stolterman, Umeå University and Professor Eric Monteiro, University of Trondheim


M. Sc. in Informatics, Umeå University 1995

Awards & Honors

I received Royal Skytteanska Samfundets award for young researchers at the social sciences faculty in 2005.

I was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the STINT Foundation (The Swedish Foundation for International Co-operation in Research and Higher Education) for post-doctoral research at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA in 2000/2001.

I was awarded a short-term fellowship by the STINT Foundation (The Swedish Foundation for International Co-operation in Research and Higher Education) to enable a visiting research position at Decision Sciences and Information Systems Department, College of Business Administration, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, during February-May 2004.

Publications

Below is a list of selected publications:


Work under review

Holmström, J., and Boudreau, M-C. Communicating and coordinating: Occasions for information technology in loosely coupled organizations (under review in Information Resources Management Journal)

Holmström, J., Levén, P., Jonsson, K., and Westergren, U. Seeing what's next. Using innovation theories to assess business opportunities (under review in Creativity and Innovation Management)

Jonsson, K., Westergren, U., and Holmström, J. Technologies for value creation: An exploration of the remote diagnostics challenge in ubiquitous computing environments (under review in Information Systems Journal).

Truex, D., Holmström, J., and Keil, M. Theorizing in information systems research. A confessional tale of the adaptation of escalation theory to information systems research (under review in Journal of AIS).

Books or part of books

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.).

Persson, T., Augustsson, N-P., and Holmström, J. (in press). From tool to actor - A case of information technologies turning against its owners. In Linde, A. (ed). IT Project Management: Complexity or Chaos?

Holmström, J. (2000). Information system and organization as multi-purpose network (Ph.D dissertation). Umeå: Umeå University.


Journal publications

Holmström, J. (forthcoming). Theorizing in IS research: What comes first and what comes after? (Forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems).

Mahring, M., Holmström, J., Keil, M. and Montealegre, R. (2004). Trojan Actor-Networks and Swift Translation: Bringing Actor-Network Theory to Project Escalation Studies. Holmström, J A critical reappraisal of de-escalation studies using actor-network theory. 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) October 2001.

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.


Conference publications

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 (To appear 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 the Proceedings of ECIS'99 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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.

Ongoing projects

ProcessIT (2005-2015)

ProcessIT is a large-scale project with a focus on process industries in north Sweden. The project, with a budget of 12 million Swedish crowns per year over a period of 10 years, is a joint effort between the universities in Luleå and Umeå where the guiding ambition is to develop new knowledge that is relevant for our industry partners as well as publishable in major research journals. My role in this project is to work as a research manager in one of the four focuses in the project, covering the business process aspects. This includes setting up new projects for myself, post docs and doctoral students, and also to serve on the research manager board (together with Jerry Eriksson from Umeå; James LeBlanc and Thomas Gustafsson, Luleå).

From value creation to value destruction (2004-)

This project aims at creating a better understanding of peer-to-peer technologies and the file-sharing activities they enable. The project is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. I am the project manager for this project.