• Elaborating the WARE method for eParticipation requirements 

      Sæbø, Øystein; Päivärinta, Tero; Austbø, Jan Helge; Scheie, Svein Sundfør (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      eParticipation systems are often directly targeted at citizens. However, as a group of potential users, citizens form a heterogeneous and unpredictable group, which makes requirements elicitation a challenging issue. Based ...
    • Enterprise content management: An integrated perspective on information management 

      Päivärinta, Tero; Munkvold, Bjørn E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)
      Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is an emerging concept involving numerous software vendors, consultants, and information management practitioners around increasing market potential. However, there exist yet few academic ...
    • The Genre System Lens on E-Democracy 

      Päivärinta, Tero; Sæbø, Øystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)
      E-Democracy aims at enhancing citizen involvement in societal communication and decision making. However, the very ideals of democracy vary while reports of e-democracy in use have often left them undiscussed. Moreover, ...
    • Issues of adopting benefits management practices of IT investments in municipalities: A Delphi study in Norway 

      Päivärinta, Tero; Dertz, Willy; Flak, Leif Skiftenes (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;40, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      The concept of benefits management highlights explicit practices to facilitate benefits realization from information technology (IT) investments, in addition to plain project management focusing on information systems (IS) ...
    • Metacommunication patterns in online communities 

      Lanamäki, Arto; Päivärinta, Tero (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;5621, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      This paper discusses about contemporary literature on computer-mediated metacommunication and observes the phenomenon in two online communities. The results contribute by identifying six general-level patterns of how ...
    • Models of E-Democracy 

      Päivärinta, Tero; Sæbø, Øystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)
      Several theories of E-Democracy have been presented, and implementations of and experiments in E-Democracy emerged. However, existing literature on the subject appears rather non-comprehensive, lacking an integrated basis, ...
    • Perceived support in e-collaborative learning: An exploratory study which make use of synchronous and asynchronous online-teaching approaches 

      Hillen, Stefanie Andrea; Päivärinta, Tero (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;7558, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This study compares four different learning environments for e-collaborative learning in two European countries related to the dimension of student’s mutual support. The theoretical baseline is Vygotsky’s zone of proximal ...
    • Why benefits realization from ERP in SMEs doesn't seem to matter? 

      Haddara, Moutaz; Päivärinta, Tero (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;44, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      It is often argued that IT investments require active management practices for benefits realization. This applies also to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. As well, benefits realization efforts are assumed to ...