Ola Henfridsson - Professor of Information Systems and Management | Staff Directory

Research Interests

Digital innovation and entrepreneurship, platforms, and technology management

Teaching in 2016-2017

Executive MBA

IB9B20: Complexity, Management and Network Thinking

Information Systems Management & Innovation

IB96E0: Digital Business Strategy

Research Students

IB9DV0: Collecting and Analysing Qualitative Data
IB9EE0: Innovation in the Digital Age

Undergraduate

IB3700: Strategic Information Management

Information Systems & Management Group

Email: Ola.Henfridsson@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 23840 / Room: 3.234

Biography

Ola is a Professor and the Head of the Information Systems and Management Group at Warwick Business School. His research interests relate to the transformative potential of digital technology as it pervades modern business and entrepreneurship. Ola teaches digital business strategy and digital innovation at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has worked and consulted with leading companies such as General Motors, Mecel, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, and many more. He is a visiting professor at the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation at University of Gothenburg. He is also an external expert for the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management at the London School of Economics. He was a runner-up for the Warwick University 2015 "Outstanding Contribution to Research Excellence" award.

Ola earned his PhD at Umeå University, Sweden, in 1999. During 10 years at the Viktoria Institute, he managed a research group on digital innovation in the automotive industry and eventually became the institute's Research Director. Ola has been a professor at Chalmers University of Technology, part-time faculty member at Halmstad University and Jönköping International Business School, and visiting professor at University of Oslo and Georgia State University.

Ola's research has been published in world elite journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. He is a Senior Editor of Information Systems Research (2015-2017) and Journal of Information Technology. He is a former Associate Editor (2006-2008) and Senior Editor (2008-2011) of the MIS Quarterly.

Publications

Journal Articles

Huang, J. C., Henfridsson, O., Liu, M. J. and Newell, S. (2017) "Growing on steroids : rapidly scaling the user base of digital ventures through digital innovation", MIS Quarterly
Ghazawneh, A. and Henfridsson, O. (2015) "A paradigmatic analysis of digital application marketplaces", Journal of Information Technology, 30, 3, 198-208
Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., Galliers, B., Henfridsson, O., Newell, S. and Vidgen, R. (2014) "The sociomateriality of information systems : current status, future directions", MIS Quarterly , 38, 3, 809-830
Krasnova, H., Henfridsson, O., Riemenschneider, C., Schäfer, K., Trkman, P., Veltri, N. F. and Whitley, E. A. (2014) "Panel report ECIS 2012 : publication strategy for junior researchers : quantity vs. quality, importance of the first authorship and collaboration", Communications of the Association for Information Systems , 34, 1, 33
Henfridsson, O. and Yoo, Y. (2014) "The liminality of trajectory shifts in institutional entrepreneurship", Organization Science, Volume 25, Number 3, 932-950
Henfridsson, O. and Lind, M. (2014) "Information systems strategizing, organizational sub-communities, and the emergence of a sustainability strategy", The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Volume 23, Number 1, 11-28
Ola Henfridsson (2014) "The power of an intellectual account : developing stories of the digital age", Journal of Information Technology, 29, 4, 356-357
Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., Galliers, R. D., Henfridsson, O., Newell, S. and Vidgen, R. (2014) "The sociomateriality of information systems : current status, future directions", MIS Quarterly , 38, 3, 809-830
Henfridsson, O., Mathiassen, L. and Svahn, F. (2014) "Managing technological change in the digital age : the role of architectural frames", Journal of Information Technology, 29, 1, 27-43
Henfridsson, O. and Bygstad, B. (2013) "The generative mechanisms of digital infrastructure evolution", MIS Quarterly , Volume 37, Number 3, 907-931
Selander, L., Henfridsson, O. and Svahn, F. (2013) "Capability search and redeem across digital ecosystems", Journal of Information Technology, Volume 28, Number 3, 183-197
Ghazawneh, A. and Henfridsson, O. (2013) "Balancing platform control and external contribution in third-party development : the boundary resources model", Information Systems Journal, Volume 23, Number 2, 173-192
Selander, L. and Henfridsson, O. (2012) "Cynicism as user resistance in IT implementation", Information Systems Journal, 22, 4, 289-312
Sein, M. K., Henfridsson, O., Purao, S., Rossi, M. and Lindgren, R. (2011) "Action design research", MIS Quarterly , 35, 1, 37-56
Yoo, Y., Henfridsson, O. and Lyytinen, K. (2010) "Research commentary -- The new organizing logic of digital innovation : an agenda for information systems research", Information Systems Research, 21, 4, 724-735
Henfridsson, O. and Lindgren, R. (2010) "User involvement in developing mobile and temporarily interconnected systems", Information Systems Journal, Volume 20, Number 2, 119-135
Andersson, M., Lindgren, R. and Henfridsson, O. (2008) "Architectural knowledge in inter-organizational IT innovation", The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Volume 17, Number 1, 19-38
Lindgren, R., Andersson, M. and Henfridsson, O. (2008) "Multi-contextuality in boundary-spanning practices", Information Systems Journal, Volume 18, Number 6, 641-661
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