About: Pär Ågerfalk
- Profile
- Pär J. Ågerfalk is a Professor of Computer and Systems Science at Uppsala University where he holds the Chair in Computer Science in Intersection with Social Sciences. He received his PhD in Information Systems Development from Linköping University and has held fulltime positions at Örebro University, University of Limerick, Jönköping International Business School and Lero – The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. Prof. Ågerfalk’s current research centres on open source software development, globally distributed and flexible software development methods and how information systems development and conceptual modelling can be informed by language/action theory. His work has appeared in a number of leading journals and conferences in the information systems area and he is currently an associate editor of the European Journal of Information Systems and Systems, Signs & Actions, and also an associate guest editor for a special issue of Information Systems Research on Flexible and Distributed IS Development. He is involved in a number of national and international organizations and networks, such as the IFIP working groups 8.1 (Design and Evaluation of Information Systems), 8.2 (The Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization) and 2.13 (Open Source Software), The Association for Information Systems (AIS), The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swedish National Research School of Management and Information Technology. He is also the founding chair of the AIS Special Interest Group on Pragmatist IS Research (SIGPrag).
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- http://www.it-professor.nu/
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