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

Research Interests

Digital innovation and entrepreneurship, platforms, technology management, algorithmic management

Teaching in 2018-2019

Postgraduate Research Business and Management

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

Undergraduate

IB1430: Digital Ventures

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 MSc, DBA, and PhD levels. He is the Director for the upcoming Executive Diploma in Digital Leadership taught in the Shard, London. The diploma includes modules on platform strategy, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and digital transformation.

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 and a KIN Fellow at VU Amsterdam. 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. He received a Warwick Business School award for "Outstanding Contribution to Research" in 2016-2017. He has won multiple WBS awards for teaching at the PhD, DBA, and MSc programs.

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 and visiting professor at University of Oslo, University of Sydney, 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 (2015-2020). He is a former Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly. He was program co-chair for the ICIS conference in Seoul in 2017 together with Christina Soh and Youngjin Yoo. He is Program Chair for AoM OCIS at Chicago in 2018. He has recently completed an ISR special issue on Digital Infrastructure and Platforms with Panos Constantinides and Geoff Parker, and manages a JSIS special issue on Digital Entrepreneurship with Sirkka Jarvenpaa and Yulin Fang.

Publications

Journal Articles

Henfridsson, O., Nandhakumar, J., Scarbrough, H. and Panourgias, N. (2018) "Recombination in the open-ended value landscape of digital innovation", Information & Organization, 28, 2, 89-100
Koutsikouri, D., Lindgren, R., Henfridsson, O. and Rudmark, D. (2018) "Extending digital infrastructures : a typology of growth tactics", Journal of Association for Information Systems
Constantinides, P., Henfridsson, O. and Parker, G. (2018) "Introduction—Platforms and infrastructures in the digital age ", Information Systems Research, 29, 2, 381-400
Gregory, R. W., Kaganer, E., Henfridsson, O. and Ruch, T. J. (2018) "IT consumerization and the transformation of IT governance", MIS Quarterly
Oshri, I., Henfridsson, O. and Kotlarsky, J. (2018) "Re-representation as work design in outsourcing : a semiotic view ", MIS Quarterly , 42, 1, 1-23
Shaikh, M. and Henfridsson, O. (2017) "Governing open source software through coordination processes", Information and Organization, 27, 2, 116-135
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, 41, 1, 301-314
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
Henfridsson, O. and Yoo, Y. (2014) "The liminality of trajectory shifts in institutional entrepreneurship", Organization Science, Volume 25, Number 3, 932-950
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 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
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
Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., Galliers, R., 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. 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