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Proceedings of STPIS'18
Preface
This volume contains the papers presented at STPIS'18: 4th International Workshop
on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development to be held on June 12, 2018 in
Tallinn, Estonia.
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 deter-
mined 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 fourth STPIS workshop
The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange discussions on using a socio-
technical perspective in IS development, the long term goal being to make this work-
shop a meeting place for the community of IS researchers and practitioners interested
in the socio-technical approach. These workshop proceedings are a continuation from
last year’s attempt to set a broad platform for discussion and debate on the benefits
and problems of viewing information systems as socio-technical artefacts.
STPIS'18 presentations sessions include 11 papers on various aspects of applying
socio-technical approaches to practice.
We have three experience reports this year. The first one covers our own exercise
during STPIS'17, and what came after it (Nolte, et.al). The second experience report
is on using maps in management consulting practice (Mauri). The third report is on
exploiting the concept of structural coupling for modeling and maintaining organiza-
tional identity (Bider & Perjons)
Four research-oriented papers cover a wide range of topics. The first paper com-
pares plan driven and agile implementation of ERP (Gren, et al.). The second one
contains critique of the traditional socio-technical approach and suggests a new ap-
proach to deal with the highly dynamic business world of today (Alter). The third
paper is devoted to applying a socio-technical approach to assessing security risks
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(McEvoy & Kowalski). The fourth paper suggests a new way of modeling business
processes based on the idea that each process is aimed at maintaining a homeostasis,
and demonstrates practical usefulness of the approach (Rychkova & Regev).
We have two position papers this year. The first paper discusses transferring prin-
ciples of interactive systems design to design of socio-technical systems (Herrmann,
et al.). The second paper discusses the concept of change of a business process eco-
system (Dimitre & Kirikova).
Two poster will also be presented at the workshop. The first one discusses interop-
erability from the socio-technical perspective (Ashra, et al.). The second poster sug-
gests using a socio-technical perspective in cyber security education (Zoto, et al.).
The STPIS workshop has a tradition to devote half time to papers presentation and
half time to collaborative work. Collaborative sessions at STPIS'18 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 1.
Acknowledgements
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'18 organizers for their support in organizing the third STPIS
workshop.
May 25, 2018
STPIS’18 organizers
Stewart Kowalski
Peter Bednar
Ilia Bider
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Program Committee
PC member Organization
Steven Alter University of San Francisco
Peter Bednar University of Portsmouth UK
Ilia Bider Stockholm University, Sweden
Federico Cabitza Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Umberto Fiaccadori Lund University, Sweden
Stewart Kowalski Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Angela Locoro Universitá degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Alexander Nolte University of Tartu
Athanasios
University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Paraskelidis
Gil Regev Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of
Moufida Sadok
Portsmouth
Lars Taxén Linköping university, Sweden
Christine Welch Portsmouth Business School, UK
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