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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.
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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

Göran Goldkuhl (2012)

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

Göran Goldkuhl, Stefan Cronholm (2010)

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

2024

Göran Goldkuhl (2024) Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, Vol. 55, p. 53-79 (Article in journal)

2022

Göran Goldkuhl (2022) The Qualitative Report, Vol. 27, p. 2715-2743 (Article in journal)

2021

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

2020

Göran Goldkuhl (2020) ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT (EGOV 2020) (Conference paper)

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, VästerÃ¥s, and Örebro.

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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

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