The goal of STPIS is to bring together academic researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals who are interested and actively engaged in exploring and addressing IS-related problems in organizational settings from a socio-technical perspective. Importance of a socio-technical perspective in research and practice A socio-technical perspective sees an organization as a combination of two components/ subsystems - a social and a technical one. The 'technical' sub-system is concerned with the tasks, processes, and tools (e.g., technology) required to transform inputs to outputs, while the 'social' sub-system is concerned with the relationships among people, authority structures, and reward systems. The interaction and compatibility of these two sub-systems determines the effectiveness of a work system and the behavior patterns within an organization. Despite that a socio-technical perspective has been established for over a half century, it is often overlooked in IS discourse. Consequently, many “new approaches” appear to reflect on IS 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.
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STPIS’23 consisted of three keynote presentations: [a] Industry 5.0 and the impact on IS, by Michael Rada, [b] Next evolution of AI in society, by Dr Felix Hovsepian, and [c] AR and sustainable behavior change, by Omon Fagbamigbe. These were devoted to the spread and relevance of sociotechnical approaches in contemporary society.
This year, 18 papers were accepted, with approximately 50 participants. The participants were invited to further develop the submissions as short or full papers for inclusion in the STPIS’23 proceedings. Each submission was reviewed by members of the program committee and the organizing committee. The topics covered various application domains where a sociotechnical perspective can be used, such as work systems, organizational change, education, industry 4.0 and industry 5.0, systemic sustainability, socio-technical security, all related to individual and organizational issues, healthcare, etc.
The organizers are grateful to the members of Program Committee for their excellent work of reviewing submitted papers in short time. We also want to extend our thanks to EasyChair for providing us with a tool to manage the proceedings. We are also much obliged to the Local organizers for their support in organizing the STPIS event.
November, 27th 2023.
Peter Bednar Fatema Zaghloul Christine Welch Alexander Nolte Mikko Rajanen Anna Sigridur Islind Helena Vallo Hult Aurelio Ravarini Alessio Maria Braccini
Fatema Zaghloul
Christine Welch Advisory Board • Stewart Kowalski, NTNO, Norway • Ilia Bider, Stockholm University, Sweden • Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany • Steven Alter, Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco, USA • Eleanor Wynn, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, USA • Per Flensburg, Professor in Information Systems at Strömstad Academy, Sweden Program Committee • Alex Bennett, University of Portsmouth, UK • Petra Blahova, University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic • Francesco Bolici, UniCLAM, Italy • Federico Cabitza, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy • Linnéa Carlsson, Univerity West, Sweden • Andrea Carugati, Aarhus University, Denmark • Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy • Jonathan Crellin, RMIT University, Vietnam • David Edwards, Independent Researcher, Philippines • Amany Elbanna, Royal Holloway University of London, UK • Umberto Fiaccadori, Lund University, Sweden • Antoine Harfouche, University Paris Nanterre, France • Joakim Kavrestad, University of Skovde, Sweden • Markus Lahtinen, Lund University, Sweden • Marija Topuzovska Latkovikj, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of
Macedonia • Angela Locoro, LIUC – Università Cattaneo, Italy • Emanuele Gabriel Margherita, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy • Mariusz Nowostawski, NTNU, Norway • Federico Pigni, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France • Gil Regev, EPFL, Switzerland • Moufida Sadok, University of Portsmouth, UK • Natalie Pang Lee San, National University of Singapore • Vasilena Shiderova, Independent Researcher and Consultant, Bulgaria • Paolo Spagnoletti, LUISS, Italy • Laura Tarantino, University of L’Aquila, Italy • Sara Willermark, University West, Sweden • Christine Welch, University of Portsmouth, UK • Stefano Za, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy