Economic Perspectives on IT Use - for Individual, Organisation and Society, 6 credits
Ekonomiska perspektiv på IT-användning - för individ, organisation och samhälle, 6 hp
TDEI70
Main field of study
Industrial Engineering and ManagementCourse level
First cycleCourse type
Programme courseExaminer
Alf WesteliusDirector of studies or equivalent
Johan HoltströmEducation components
Preliminary scheduled hours: 0 hRecommended self-study hours: 160 h
Main field of study
Industrial Engineering and ManagementCourse level
First cycleAdvancement level
A1XCourse offered for
- Industrial Engineering and Management - International, M Sc in Engineering
- Industrial Engineering and Management, M Sc in Engineering
Prerequisites
Industrial EconomicsIntended learning outcomes
After completing this course, the students should be able to describe, perform analysis of, and reflect upon, the organizational, economic and management questions related to Economic Information Systems. This includes the students' ability to:
- identify, communicate and make nuanced assessments of the how the interaction between IT, communication and organising affects the benefits an organisation derives from its information systems (computerised or manual).
- discern connections between IT development in society and changes in industry structures.
- participate in development and use of information systems, by better interacting with managers, controllers and others concerning the business benefits and economic importance of IT.
Course content
Modern information technology provides increased flexibility in time and space and enables new ways of organising and conducting work. This gives rise to new products, new work routines and new ways of communicating, influencing industry structures, organisations and individuals. But the key to increased efficiency and better results is not IT by itself, it is how you combine new ways of working, new organising and new technology with the existing.
We study how industries have changed the past decades when work tasks and products have been digitised, when production equipment and our physical, quotidian environment has been computerised and when the spread and exchange of data becomes increasingly simple and inexpensive.
When tasks and roles change and new organisational forms emerge, it is important to understand how communication in an organisation works. Which challenges and possibilities lie in IT-supported communication? What types of communication are managers looking for to cope with their work? How is management control influenced by new IT solutions? And how can proposed IT ventures be analysed and assessed? We discuss communication possibilities and learn to handle assessment models.
The introduction of new information systems can be difficult enough. But typically, the changes in the business and work routines pose the greatest challenge - and have the greatest potential for creating benefits. The managers of tomorrow need to understand and participate in how the IT development affects the business. And those responsible for IT need to be able to discuss with controllers, accountants and business managers. This is what the course deals with, especially emphasising how responsibility and management control in an organisation can influence the realisation of IT's potential.
Teaching and working methods
The course is based on lectures, seminars and a group project.
Examination
UPG2 | Seminars | 1 credits | U, G |
UPG1 | Project work | 2 credits | U, 3, 4, 5 |
KTR1 | Written examination | 3 credits | U, 3, 4, 5 |
Grades
,Department
Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingDirector of Studies or equivalent
Johan HoltströmExaminer
Alf WesteliusCourse website and other links
http://www.iei.liu.se/indek/utbildning/ekonomiska-informationssystem?l=svEducation components
Preliminary scheduled hours: 0 hRecommended self-study hours: 160 h
Course literature
Kurslitteraturen består av ett urval akademiska artiklar som successivt anpassas till utvecklingen och där kursdeltagarna har möjlighet att påverka artikelurvalet. Ett exempel på kurslitteratur är följande:Leonardi, Paul M.; Huysman, Marlene & Steinfield, Charles (2013). Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19.(1), 1-19.
Majchrzak, Ann; Faraj, Samer; Kane, Gerald & Azad, Bijan (2013) The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 19(1)
http://www.wwf.se/vrt-arbete/ekologiska-fotavtryck/1127697-ekologiska-fotavtryck
http://www.renaklader.se/material/rapport-om-hemtexilforetag
Fredrik Hedenus (2011) Method for estimation of the family’s greenhouse gas emissions. Physical Resource Theory. Report prepared for “One Tonne Life project” . Chalmers tekniska högskola.
Albert O. Hirschman (1970) Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-27660-4.
Hirschman, Albert O. (1974) Exit, voice, and loyalty : Further reflections and a survey of recent contributions. Social Science Information, Volume 13 (1)
Christofides, Emily, Amy Muise, and Serge Desmarais. 2009. “Information Disclosure and Control on Facebook: Are They Two Sides of the Same Coin or Two Different Processes?” Cyberpsychology & Behavior 12 (3) 341–345.
Porebski, Leszek. 2002. “Three Faces of Electronic Democracy.” In ECIS 2002, June 6-8, Gdansk, Poland, 1218–1227.
Collste, Göran. 2008. “Global ICT-Ethics: The Case of Privacy.” Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 6 (1) 76–87.
Shirazi, Farid, Ojelanki Ngwenyama, and Olga Morawczynski. 2010. “ICT Expansion and the Digital Divide in Democratic Freedoms: An Analysis of the Impact of ICT Expansion, Education and ICT Filtering on Democracy.” Telematics and Informatics 27 (1) 21–31.
Alf Westelius & Erik Lundmark (2013) Education and competence - an edge in transition? ANZAM 2013 - 27th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Theme: Managing on the Edge, Hobart, Tasmania, 4-6 December 2013.
Sheen S. Levine, Michael J. Prietula (2013) Open Collaboration for Innovation: Principles and Performance. Organization Science, Published online in Articles in Advance 30 Dec 2013, 1-20.
Alf Westelius - The Internet and Entrepreneurship : The Entrepreneurial LEGO. Lecture at Macquarie University, 9 Dec 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyWKXWwbwck
Alessia Contu, Hugh Willmott, (2003) Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory. Organization Science 14(3):283-296
Mengiste, Shegaw Anagaw; Aanestad, Margunn (2013) Understanding the Dynamics of Learning across social worlds : A case study from Implementing IS in the Ethiopian public health care system. Information & Organization, Oct 2013, s. 233-257.
Erik Lundmark and Alf Westelius (2014, available as "Early view" from 2013-01-16) Entrepreneurship as Elixir and Mutagen. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.
Erik Lundmark and Alf Westelius (2012) Exploring entrepreneurship as misbehaviour. In special issue Rethinking Misbehavior and Resistance in Organizations, Lucy Taksa & Alison Barnes (eds.) Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Vol. 19, 209 - 235, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN: 0742-6186.
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UPG2 | Seminars | 1 credits | U, G |
UPG1 | Project work | 2 credits | U, 3, 4, 5 |
KTR1 | Written examination | 3 credits | U, 3, 4, 5 |
Note: The course matrix might contain more information in Swedish.
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5. PLANNING, EXECUTION AND PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITH RESPECT TO SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIETAL NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS | ||||||
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