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Göran Goldkuhl

Professor Emeritus

I am an action/practice theorist, action researcher, design researcher, and method developer. I have extensive research experience and have contributed to theory/method development in business development, IT system design, and qualitative research.

Digitization and research methods

I am currently conducting research on 1) digitization and business development and 2) qualitative and pragmatic research methods. 

This includes the following areas:

  • change analysis/change management,
  • evaluation/co-design of IT and operations,
  • e-government (digital services and infrastructures),
  • process orientation/practice theory,
  • problem & goal analysis,
  • communication analysis,
  • service design,
  • policy/constitutional analysis,
  • business and information needs analysis,
  • interaction design (actionability),
  • business language digitization (information modeling),
  • method analysis/method modeling, and
  • IT governance/IT service management.

I have worked extensively with (and further developed) qualitative, pragmatic, and practice-oriented research methods such as practice research, action research, design research, and evaluation research. In the field of research methodology, I have also contributed to knowledge engineering, multi-grounded theory, practical theory, design theory, holistic concept definition, and the concept of socio-instrumental pragmatism.

Publications

Göran Goldkuhl (2016)

Government Information Quarterly , Vol.33 , s.444-452 Continue to DOI

Göran Goldkuhl (2012)

European Journal of Information Systems , Vol.21 , s.135-146 Continue to DOI

Göran Goldkuhl, Stefan Cronholm (2010)

International Journal of Qualitative Methods , Vol.9 , s.187-205 Continue to DOI

2024

Göran Goldkuhl (2024) Aspects of E-Government Interoperation: Case Study Research for Discovery Beyond Interoperability as Layered Capability Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, Vol. 55, p. 53-79 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2022

Göran Goldkuhl (2022) Linguistic and Ontological Concept Formation: The LION Method The Qualitative Report, Vol. 27, p. 2715-2743 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2021

Malin Nordström, Jonatan Permert, Magnus Lundeberg, Göran Goldkuhl (2021) Interoperabilitet #VPF3

2020

Göran Goldkuhl (2020) Between Overexploitation and Underexploitation of Digital Opportunities - A Case Study with Focus on Affordances and Constraints ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT (EGOV 2020) (Conference paper) Continue to DOI

Research education and collaboration

Research education

Since 1991, I have led the VITS research network with participants from several universities in central Sweden, and through this collaboration, I have supervised more than 20 people to doctoral degrees and more than 40 people to licentiate degrees.

I have also taught a large number of doctoral courses. I have been named Research Supervisor of the Year at Linköping University and at the University of Borås.

In 2013, I was awarded an honorary doctorate at Örebro University in recognition of my contributions to this university and other institutions of higher education.

Collaboration

I have led and participated in a large number of R&D projects in close collaboration with organizations in the field. Over the past twenty years, the focus has been on collaboration with the state and municipalities.

Collaboration has taken place with:

  • The E-delegation,
  • The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth,
  • The Swedish Tax Agency,
  • The Swedish Companies Registration Office,
  • The Swedish Defense Materiel Administration,
  • SKL,
  • The Sambruk Association
  • Municipalities such as Botkyrka, Jönköping, Kumla, Linköping, Norrköping, Sundsvall, Sigtuna, Västerås, and Örebro.

Short facts

CV

  • 1980, Doctor of Economics, Administrative Data Processing, Stockholm University
  • 1991-, Research Director for the VITS Research Group, Linköping University
  • 1994-2005, Research Director at the Center for Studies of Man, Technology, Organization (CMTO), Linköping University
  • 1996-2009, Professor, Informatics, Jönköping International Business School
  • 1999-, Professor, Information Systems Development, Linköping University
  • 2010-2011, Visiting Professor, Computer and Systems Sciences, specializing in service-oriented information systems, Stockholm University
  • 2013, Honorary Doctorate, Örebro University
  • 2016-, Researcher at Campus Gotland, Uppsala University

Online presence

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