Juho Lindman

University of Gothenburg | GU · Department of Applied Information Technology

Transformation towards a digital government imposes significant demands on the capabilities of legacy infrastructure. We closely followed a Swedish municipality that designed and implemented a solution to improve the building permit application process with an aim to improve citizen service. We developed six design principles (DPs): availability, t...

Social audit approaches to sustainable development in the textile industry predominate in worldwide practice. However, research indicates that there are persistent structural non-compliance cases, demonstrating repetitive and harmful patterns and that creating codes of conduct as part of sustainability practices can only marginally improve worker r...

Public sector organizations suffer from high levels of technical debt (TD). TD leaves digital infrastructures in a derelict state, making digital transformations costly and risky. Though there is growing research about TD, most studies focus on private businesses. In this study, we conduct a case study examining the TD in a Swedish municipality, an...

New emerging digital technologies are evolving at an unprecedented pace. These advancements create increasing expectations for public sector organizations. However, we do not yet know much about the processes of these organizations when approaching emerging technologies. Such early innovation processes are critical to be able to reap the benefits o...

Green bond markets promise to fight climate change by encouraging green investments. Yet, the real-world complexity of quantifying the green impact of sustainable initiatives might be exploited for greenwashing, thus threatening the entire market's credibility. Advances in business analytics research and practice hold the potential to untangle this...

Public sector organizations are continuously experimenting with how to deliver public services using blockchains, despite the hyperbole and overblown expectations still surrounding the technology. We conduct a case study approach of several early blockchain projects to understand the role and impact of expectations and hype for actors in these proj...

Peer-to-peer governance of blockchain technology reemerges a number of interesting practical and theoretical questions. This article aims to bridge current research on blockchain technology to earlier research on open source software (OSS) and to suggest a number of concepts from OSS research that are useful in discussing governance of blockchain s...

Especially in the area of genomics, global research institutions constantly provide new insights. Yet today we lack insight on how the use of research data in clinical practice is facilitated. Our study researches an entrepreneurial venture as complementing actor in the international health context who bridges data use from research to science. In...

Especially in the area of genomics, global research institutions constantly provide new insights. Yet today we lack insight on how the use of research data in clinical practice is facilitated. Our study researches an entrepreneurial venture as complementing actor in the international health context who bridges data use from research to science. In...

Blockchain remains a hot topic for digital transformation and innovation. In the private sector, blockchain has demonstrated disruptive potential through proven use cases. However, despite strong interest and greater awareness, blockchain has had minimal impact on the public sector, where few projects have moved beyond small pilots. At the same tim...

Developments in blockchain technology create novel service opportunities for the public sector. However, so far there has been limited empirical investigation on how the public sector takes this emerging technology to use and develop these services. This paper opts for a case study approach of a public organization (municipality). We interviewed ke...

Genome data holds tremendous value potential for humanity. Downstream services are needed to increase the use of currently dispersed data. There is a research gap related to how companies should design these: They struggle to balance (1) dynamic (exploration) knowledge requirements that are of interest to genome researchers and (2) stable (exploita...

Traditionally, software APIs (application programming interfaces) have been viewed from a technical perspective, as a means to separate implementation from functional calls, and as a way to define a contract of software functionality. The technical benefits of APIs have been reported in numerous studies. Several reports from industry offer useful p...

Foundations function as a vital institutional support infrastructure for many of the most successful open-source projects, but the different roles played by these support entities are understudied in Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) research. Drawing on Open Hub (formerly known as Ohloh) data, this paper empirically investigates how thes...

Software specialists increasingly find themselves in situations where their API-related decisions have strong implications on software business. Through long-lasting research collaboration with API-responsible software specialists and several large software-intensive companies, we have established a strategic API framework to aid in consideration o...

Driven by business interests, (product/customer) value has become a critical topic in system and software engineering as well as enterprise planning. The conceptual modeling community has responded to this challenge with several modeling approaches, including \(\hbox {e}^{3}\) value modeling, focusing on capturing and analyzing value flows in value...

While the worldwide market expansion of Uber has raised controversy, Uber has also received praise for its mobile phone app. Its many features – taxi ordering, pricing, real-time location information, paying, and service evaluation – have provided significant customer value. When Uber entered Finland in November 2014, few other taxi apps were avail...

While the worldwide market expansion of Uber has raised controversy, Uber has also received praise for its mobile phone app. Its many features – taxi ordering, pricing, real-time location information, paying, and service evaluation – have provided significant customer value. When Uber entered Finland in November 2014, few other taxi apps were avail...

APIs provide value beyond technical functionality. They enable and manage access to strategic business assets and play a key role in enabling software ecosystems. Existing work has begun to consider the strategic business value of software APIs, but such work has limited analysis capabilities and has not made use of established, structured modeling...

Research on online communities has shown that content production involves manifest groups and latent users. This paper conceptualizes a related but distinct phenomenon of latent groups. We ground this contribution in a longitudinal study on the Finnish Wikipedia (2007–2014). In the case of experts working on content within their area of expertise,...

It is beneficial to understand the benefits and drawbacks of enterprise modeling approaches in certain contexts. We report experiences applying different combinations of three modeling approaches to industrial cases. Specifically, we report on experiences from four companies using a combination of goal modeling, e³ value modeling, and workflow mode...

Individuals engaged in mass collaboration in Wikipedia may join to work recurrently with the same partners. It may well be that a significant portion of Wikipedia content is produced this way. Therefore, it is important to study how such groups emerge. In this paper, we argue how such recurrence may involve identity work that creates a sense of 'we...

We investigate the different aspects of measuring trust in Open Source Software (OSS) communities. In the theoretical part we review seminal works related to trust in OSS development. This investigation provides background to our empirical part where we measure trust in a community (in terms of kudo). Our efforts provide further avenues to develop...

Foundations function as vital institutional support infrastructures for many of the most successful open source projects, but the role of these support entities remains an understudied phenomenon in FLOSS research. Drawing on Open Hub (formerly known as Ohloh) data, this paper empirically investigates the different ways these entities support proje...

A recent disruption in academic publishing are Academic Social Networks (ASN), i.e. web platforms such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu that have provided new ways for researchers to disseminate, search for, and retrieve research articles. ASNs are still a grey area in terms of implications for involved stakeholders, and research on them has so far...

3D printing (3DP) has high transformative potential as it is not only distinctive from other existing manufacturing techniques but also presents several previously unimaginable advantages. Its digital nature coupled with the availability of internet access offers the potential for radical decentralization of industrial production, as well as collab...

Most scholarly journals have explicit copyright restrictions for authors outlining how published articles, or earlier manuscript versions of such articles, may be distributed on the open web. Empirical research on the development of open access (OA) is still scarce and methodologically fragmented, and research on the relationship between journal co...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2016, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May/June 2016. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to free, libre,...

Much of earlier emphasis on open data as a public good has been focused primarily upon accessibility and has ruled out the role of rivalry in the creation of horizontal and vertical complements. Rather than framing open data as a public good, this paper positions open data as a common pool resource, which is subject to subtraction by commercial int...

Software specialists are well aware of the merits of visualizations, mash-ups and other methods of enriching open datasets to better serve the needs of their customers. Commercial services based on these methods hold untapped potential for new service businesses. We propose a model for categorizing the different roles businesses can have in enrichi...

What are the similarities of open data and open source software when building a business? Despite their differences as phenomena (one is about applications and one is about data), the two also have many similarities. Both for example share the idea that the transparency of the artifact enables contribution. Many developers of open data have experie...

Open data entrepreneurship is required to create novel services and sustainable value networks based on government released datasets. However, the business is still in its infancy. This paper investigates the emerging open data value network structure based on empirical findings from 14 Finnish organizations. The data was collected through intervie...

Industries develop at different paces. The constant environmental flux of information and communication technology companies becomes especially clear when comparing them with more traditional industries, in our case, the Finnish construction industry. The sector is dominated by a number of large industrial actors with established positions operatin...

The right to fork open source code is at the core of open source licensing. All open source licenses grant the right to fork their code, that is to start a new development effort using an existing code as its base. Thus, code forking represents the single greatest tool available for guaranteeing sustainability in open source software. In addition t...

This is the first HICSS minitrack focusing on different aspects of open data services, including issues related to the publication of the open data sets followed by new service development and their implications. Of special interest are novel applications of available open data in various domains, such as, preventive healthcare and traffic.

Open data promises an increased availability of previously private, mostly , governmental datasets for service development. However, research on the topic is only starting to surface. In this article we propose a research agenda for open data service research. We review earlier relevant literature to extrapolate open data as a phenomenon from the p...

The ability to create high-quality software artifacts that are usable over time is one of the essential requirements of the software business. In such a setting, open source software offers excellent opportunities for sustainability. In particular, safeguarding mechanisms against planned obsolescence by any single actor are built into the definitio...

New software businesses are extending the software industry via private enterprises that build new and innovative services on top of Open Data (OD) sets released by government and public bodies. What are the tenable value propositions and income-generating mechanisms for these private enterprises and what are the new opportunities for service devel...

This chapter explores how two organisations have changed their software development practices by introducing Open Source technology. Our aim is to understand the institutional changes that are needed in, and emerge, from this process. This chapter develops a conceptualisation building on the insights of entrepreneurial institutionalism, concentrati...

The emergence of F/LOSS (free/libre open source software) has triggered several changes in the software industry. F/LOSS has been cited as an archetypal form of open innovation; it consists of the convergence and collaboration of like-minded parties. An increasing number of software firms have taken upon this approach to link outsiders into their s...

Valovirta, Ville, Nieminen, Mika, Pelkonen, Antti, Turkama, Petra, Heikura, Tuija, Lindman, Juha, Inkinen, Sam & Kaivo-oja, Jari (2011) Systeemisen muutoksen haasteet ja innovaatiotoiminnan mahdollisuudet. [The challenges of systemic changes and possibilities of new innovation policy]. Tekesin katsaus 286/2011. Tekes. Helsinki. 57 pages.

Open data initiatives on governmental data seem often to be linked to small software companies, which also use and release software under OSS licenses. This paper calls for more research to understand the similarities between open data and open source software vendors. We build a theoretical linkage between the more established OSS research and eme...

Scores of software producers have turned toward open source licenses to improve service for their customers. For these companies, choosing the correct license determines business success. When the available open source stack and licensing options grow, so does the need to understand the interplay among licensing, sourcing decisions, and business go...

Increasing number of companies conduct their business employing various Open source software (OSS) licenses. The choice of correct license determines the business potential of a given software. When the available OSS stack and licensing options grow, so does the need for research concerning the interplay between OSS licensing, sourcing decisions an...

Companies that build their offerings with Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities have evoked fundamental changes in the operating environment of software firms. However, prior literature has not paid sufficient attention to how the managers of software firms perceive these changes and the impact of FLOSS activity on their business. Thi...

This paper explores how two organizations have changed their software development practices by implementing Open Source technology. Our aim is to understand the institutional changes needed in and emerging from this process. The paper develops a conceptualization building on the insights of entrepreneurial institutionalism and concentrating on the...

The software stack opened under Open Source Software (OSS) licenses is growing rapidly. Commercial actors have released considerable amounts of previously proprietary source code. These actions beg the question why companies choose a strategy based on giving away software assets? Research on outbound OSS approach has tried to answer this question w...

This paper discusses the meaning of open source in an industrial context. Building a grounded theory from an industry-driven R&D project, our analysis shows that open source in an industrial context is multifaceted. We find that the meaning of open source must be established in the context of the individual organization.

Open Source Software development is seen as a panacea by many companies. The promise of community-style development, innovation and cost savings drive the wider adoption of OSS in companies. However, it is still difficult to institutionalize the open and agile culture of sharing innovation especially into larger departmentalized organizations. The...

Our main finding is that OSS community seems to coordinate its activities by relying on technical determination. First, we review previous literature to understand OSS community coordination mechanisms. Then we empirically review OSS Apache Web Server community by using qualitative case study methods. Our data consist of developer lists email-discu...

Open Source Software (OSS) development success in business context is determined by the relationship between the developer community and the benefiting company. The purpose of this case study is to examine this relationship. We review extant literature on the OSS development, characteristics of the OSS communities and OSS development, moving on to...

Open Source Software (OSS) has gained industrial and organizational credibility both as a development style and as an organizational form based on voluntarism, distributed and global ideals practices. It has attracted hype both among software development professionals and the general public. In the first phase of OSS commercialisation companies wer...