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Göran Goldkuhl

Göran Goldkuhl

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Computer Science

D-Index
33
Citations
5577
World Ranking
12548
National Ranking
94

Overview

Göran Goldkuhl is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden and has contributed to academic research primarily in the fields of social sciences, computer science, and business, management, and accounting. Their scholarly work crosses various subfields including sociology and political science, information systems, political science and international relations, computer science applications, and marketing.

Their research topics focus on multiple aspects of information systems and software engineering, including:

  • Information Systems Theories and Implementation
  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • E-Government and Public Services
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Service and Product Innovation
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Göran Goldkuhl has published in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • Information Systems and e-Business Management
  • The Qualitative Report
  • ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems

Recent publications by Goldkuhl feature research studies across design science, action research, linguistic and ontological methods, and e-government interoperability. These works include:

  • "Method Engineering as Design Science," 2020, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • "Multi-grounded action research," 2020, Information Systems and e-Business Management
  • "Linguistic and Ontological Concept Formation: The LION Method," 2022, The Qualitative Report
  • "Aspects of E-Government Interoperation: Case Study Research for Discovery Beyond Interoperability as Layered Capability," 2024, ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems

Collaboration is part of Goldkuhl's research practice, with frequent coauthors including Fredrik Karlsson, Stefan Cronholm, Mikael Lind, and Jonas Sjöström.

Best Publications

  • Pragmatism vs interpretivism in qualitative information systems research

    Göran Goldkuhl;Göran Goldkuhl

  • Adding Theoretical Grounding to Grounded Theory: Toward Multi-Grounded Theory:

    Göran Goldkuhl;Stefan Cronholm

  • DESIGN THEORIES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS - A NEED FOR MULTI-GROUNDING

    Goran Goldkuhl

  • Information Systems Development: A Systematic Approach

    M. Sundburg;G. Goldkuhl

  • Generic business frameworks and action modeling

    Göran Goldkuhl

  • Meanings of Pragmatism: Ways to conduct information systems research

    Göran Goldkuhl

  • Strategies for Information Systems Evaluation : Six Generic Types

    Stefan Cronholm;Göran Goldkuhl

  • Actability: a Way to Understand Information Systems Pragmatics

    Göran Goldkuhl;Pär J. Ågerfalk

  • Method integration: the need for a learning perspective

    Göran Goldkuhl;Mikael Lind;Ulf Seigerroth

  • Multi-grounded theory - Adding theoretical grounding to grounded theory

    Göran Goldkuhl;Stefan Cronholm

  • A multi-grounded design research process

    Göran Goldkuhl;Mikael Lind

  • Anchoring scientific abstractions - ontological and linguistic determination following socio-instrumental pragmatism

    Göran Goldkuhl

  • Conversational Analysis as a Theoretical Foundation for Language Action Approaches

    Göran Goldkuhl

  • Coordination and transformation in business processes : Towards an integrated view

    Göran Goldkuhl;Mikael Lind

  • From e-ladder to e-diamond - re-conceptualising models for public e-services

    Goran Goldkuhl;Anders Persson

  • Developing e-interactions - a framework for business capabilities and exchanges

    Göran Goldkuhl;Mikael Lind

  • Generic Layered Patterns for Business Modelling

    Mikael Lind;Göran Goldkuhl

  • Towards an integral understanding of organizations and information systems: Convergence of three theories

    Göran Goldkuhl;Annie Röstlinger

  • Reconstruction of Different Business Processes - A Theory and Method Driven Analysis

    Mikael Lind;Göran Goldkuhl

  • Joint Elicitation of Problems: Important Aspects of Change Analysis

    Göran Goldkuhl;Annie Röstlinger

  • Towards an integral understanding of organisations and information systems: Convergence of three theories

    Göran Goldkuhl;Annie Röstlinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Pär J. Ågerfalk
Pär J. Ågerfalk Uppsala University
Brian Fitzgerald
Brian Fitzgerald University of Limerick

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