Per Flensburg

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Per Flensburg
Born1946 [1]
NationalitySwedish
Alma mater Lund University
OccupationProfessor of Informatics
Years active1986-present
Employer University College West
Known for Knowledge Spillover, Knowledge Management, Systems Development Consulting [2]
Website http://www.perflensburg.se/

Per Flensburg is a Swedish author, researcher, and professor at University College West. In a paper on Information Systems Research in Scandinavia he was named as one of the top 5 authors in this field based on his extensive research output. [3]

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History

In 1986 Flensburg defended his doctoral thesis (End User Computing - introduction, consequences, possibilities) at Lund University. That same year he became a member of the teaching staff at Copenhagen Business School. In 1996, he began to work for Växjö University where he was appointed Professor in 2002. Per Flensburg joined the faculty as a Professor of Informatics at University College West in 2006. He retired in 2013 and is from 2018 professor in informatics at Strömstad academy. His career is described in an article in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems

Research

As a researcher Flensburg has primarily focused on user participation in the development of information systems. [4] He has published numerous articles and books, among these "Knowledge Spillovers And Knowledge Management", co-edited with Charlie Karlsson and Sven Ake Horte, which became widely receipted among an interdisciplinary research community. [5] [6] Although he has spent some time on the different problems that arise when users of varying backgrounds and paradigms interpret specific terms in an information system differently. Along with heading research at the various universities for which he worked, Flensburg was also a research leader of CeLeKT Research Center. [7] He has written a thesis about paradigm shift in information systems. [8]

Teaching

Flensburg has devoted a lot of effort to education. Some of his lectures and courses are presented at the homepage, and some of his articles and slides are presented at another page.

See also

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References

  1. "Curriculum Vitae, Per Flensburg". University West. Retrieved 15 Jan 2016. Born: 1946
  2. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-318X.2009.01026.x/fullElkjæ,+Bente;+Flensburg,+Per;+Mouritsen,+Jan+&+Willmot,+Hugh+(1991),+%22The+commodification+of+expertise:+The+case+of+systems+development+consulting%22,+Accounting,+Management+and+Information+Technologies+(2 ed.),+1+(2):+139–156,+doi:10.1016/0959-8022(91)90016-8,+In+this+paper+we+question+whether+it+is+possible+through+continuously+refined+models+of+systems+development+to+reach+a+stage+of+unproblematical+system+use.+In+our+view,+systems+development+is+a+social+practice+which+is+often+mobilized+in+the+context+of+contradictory+pressures+where+concern+for+“proper”+systems+is+curtailed+by+“needs”+for+firms+to+survive+in+markets+and+for+systems+developers+to+maintain+their+jobs.
  3. Molka-Danielsen, Judith; Shlyk, Vadim; Bobrik, Annette; Nurminen, Markku I. (August 2007). "Historical Reflection through Visual Analysis". Proceedings of IRIS30. Information Systems Research in Scandinavia. Tampere. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.78.8864 . Table 4 shows the top ten authors that have contributed the most articles to IRIS. We will display the egocentric network of some of these top authors to give an impression of the interconnection of researchers that they have supported.
  4. Berleur, J.; Nurminen, Markku I. & Impagliazzo, John (2006), Social informatics: an information society for all? : in remembrance of Rob Kling : proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC7), IFIP TC 9, Maribor, Slovenia, September 21–23, 2006, Springer, p. 5, ISBN   9780387378756, Social Informatics as a discipline has also been the main concern of Per Flensburg and Arianit Kurti.
  5. Hall, Joshua (2006), "Knowledge Spillovers and Knowledge Management", Knowledge, Technology & Policy (3 ed.), 20 (3): 201–202, doi:10.1007/s12130-007-9027-3, S2CID   106527150
  6. Muhlenkamp, Audrey (2006), "Knowledge Spillovers and Knowledge Management – Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Per Flensburg, and Sven-Ake Hörte", Papers in Regional Science (1 ed.), 85: 167–169, doi:10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00065.x
  7. "Former members". Center for Learning and Knowledge Technologies. Retrieved 15 June 2011. Per Flensburg
  8. "Den stora tankestriden inom informatik" (PDF).