This volume contains the papers presented at STPIS'17: 3rd International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective held on June 13, 2017 in Essen, Germany. Importance of socio-technical perspective in research and practice A socio-technical perspective sees an organization as an emergent whole of multiple systems view - in this perspective a multiplicity of emergent combinations of what may appear as two systems is a key feature - a social system and a technical system as one indivisible whole. The real pattern of behaviour in the organization is determined by the interaction of two. While analysing management problems of getting things done by people, adequate consideration should be given to technology as well as informal and formal interactions of people. Despite that a socio-technical perspective has been around for over a half century, it is often forgotten in the IS discourse today. Consequently, many “new approaches” appear to reflect on IS systems problems, such as modern IT systems poorly adjusted to the external or/and internal environment (e.g. market, organizational culture) of organizations in which they are (to be) deployed. We strongly believe that it is high time the social-technical perspective took its proper place in IS research, practice and teaching.
The STPIS workshop has a tradition to devote half time to papers presentation and half time to collaborative work. Two collaborative sessions at STPIS'16 are summarized in Appendix 1. Collaborative sessions at STPIS'17 will be devoted to work in groups on a business case, each group producing a solution based on a socio-technical systems approach of their choice. A short presentation of the business case that will be used is presented in Appendix 2.
The organizers are grateful to the members of Program Committee for their excellent work of reviewing submitted papers in short time. We are also thankful to EasyChair for providing us with a tool to manage the workshop free of charge. We are also much obliged to the CAISE'17 organizers for their support in organizing the third STPIS workshop.
May 31, 2017 STPIS’17 organizers
Stewart Kowalski
Peter Bednar
Ilia Bider
Program Committee
Peter Bednar Alex Bennett Ilia Bider Federico Cabitza Umberto Fiaccadori Tineke Fitch Penny Hart Peter Imrie John Paul Kawalek Stewart Kowalski Alexander Nolte Gil Regev Moufida Sadok Vasilena Shiderova Paolo Spagnoletti Frank Stowell Gorica Tapandjieva Lars Taxén David Wastell Christine Welch Additional reviewers