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Business and Management
USA
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
95
Citations
44847
World Ranking
454
National Ranking
250

Business and Management

D-Index
90
Citations
41621
World Ranking
85
National Ranking
41

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - AIS LEO Award, Association for Information Systems
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Overview

Kalle Lyytinen is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Business, Management, and Accounting, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Management Information Systems, Information Systems, Strategy and Management, and Computer Science Applications.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including Open Source Software Innovations, Information Systems Theories and Implementation, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Software Engineering Research, Digital Transformation in Industry, and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Digitization and Phase Transitions in Platform Organizing Logics: Evidence from the Process Automation Industry, 2020, MIS Quarterly
  • Metahuman systems = humans + machines that learn, 2020, Journal of Information Technology
  • Team Design Thinking, Product Innovativeness, and the Moderating Role of Problem Unfamiliarity, 2020, Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Digital "x"-Charting a Path for Digital-Themed Research, 2023, Information Systems Research
  • Innovation logics in the digital era: a systemic review of the emerging digital innovation regime, 2021, Innovation

Kalle Lyytinen frequently collaborates with other researchers such as Nicholas Berente, Youngjin Yoo, Vijaya Parameswaran, Kurt C. Stange, and Aron Lindberg. These partnerships have resulted in multiple publications in prominent venues.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several key scholarly venues, which include:

  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Information Technology
  • Communications of the Association for Information Systems
  • MIS Quarterly

Kalle Lyytinen has received recognition through awards such as the AIS LEO Award from the Association for Information Systems in 2013 and was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Research Commentary---The New Organizing Logic of Digital Innovation: An Agenda for Information Systems Research

    Youngjin Yoo;Ola Henfridsson;Kalle Lyytinen

  • Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World

    Youngjin Yoo;Richard J. Boland;Kalle Lyytinen;Ann Majchrzak

  • Digital innovation management: reinventing innovation management research in a digital world

    Satish Nambisan;Kalle Lyytinen;Ann Majchrzak;Michael Song

  • Research Commentary---Digital Infrastructures: The Missing IS Research Agenda

    David Tilson;Kalle Lyytinen;Carsten Sørensen

  • Identifying Software Project Risks: An International Delphi Study

    Roy Schmidt;Kalle Lyytinen;Mark Keil;Paul Cule

  • Information systems failures—a survey and classification of the empirical literature

    K. Lyytinen;R. Hirschheim

  • Information Systems Development and Data Modeling: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations

    Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein;Kalle Lyytinen

  • A framework for identifying software project risks

    Mark Keil;Paul E. Cule;Kalle Lyytinen;Roy C. Schmidt

  • Design theory for dynamic complexity in information infrastructures: the case of building internet

    Ole Hanseth;Kalle Lyytinen

  • Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks

    Kalle Lyytinen;Youngjin Yoo;Richard J. Boland

  • Wakes of Innovation in Project Networks: The Case of Digital 3-D Representations in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

    Richard J. Boland;Kalle Lyytinen;Youngjin Yoo

  • Issues and Challenges in Ubiquitous Computing

    Kalle Lyytinen;Youngjin Yoo

  • Research Commentary: The Next Wave of Nomadic Computing

    Kalle Lyytinen;Youngjin Yoo

  • The disruptive nature of information technology innovations: the case of internet computing in systems development organizations

    Kalle Lyytinen;Gregory M. Rose

  • Explaining information systems change: a punctuated socio-technical change model

    Kalle Lyytinen;Mike Newman;Mike Newman

  • MetaEdit+: A Fully Configurable Multi-User and Multi-Tool CASE and CAME Environment

    Steven Kelly;Kalle Lyytinen;Matti Rossi

  • Learning failure in information systems development

    Kalle Lyytinen;Daniel Robey

  • What's Wrong with the Diffusion of Innovation Theory

    Kalle Lyytinen;Jan Damsgaard

  • Components of software development risk: how to address them? A project manager survey

    J. Ropponen;K. Lyytinen

  • Agile Modeling, Agile Software Development, and Extreme Programming: The State of Research

    John Erickson;Kalle Lyytinen;Keng Siau

  • Identifying Software Project Risks: An International Delphi Study.

    Roy C. Schmidt;Kalle Lyytinen;Mark Keil;Paul Chule

Frequent Co-Authors

Youngjin Yoo
Youngjin Yoo London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard J. Boland
Richard J. Boland Case Western Reserve University
Matthias Jarke
Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen University
Heinz K. Klein
Heinz K. Klein Binghamton University
John Leslie King
John Leslie King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carsten Sørensen
Carsten Sørensen London School of Economics and Political Science
Matti Rossi
Matti Rossi Aalto University
John Mylopoulos
John Mylopoulos University of Ottawa
Varun Grover
Varun Grover University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Rudy Hirschheim
Rudy Hirschheim Louisiana State University

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