Biography
 

 

Kalle Lyytinen

 
Professor
 Department of Information Systems
 Weatherhead School of Management
 Case Western Reserve University
 Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7235

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Kalle Lyytinen is a Professor of Information Systems at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and an adjunct professor at the University of Jyvaskyla. He currently develops courses and teaches advanced-degree students and executives on topics related to systems development, risk management and electronic and mobile commerce. He was educated at he University of Jyvaskyla, Finland where he has studied computer science, accounting, statistics, economics, theoretical philosophy and political theory. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science, and a masters and Ph.D. in economics (computer science). He speaks fluently in Finnish and Swedish as well as English.

 

Kalle is an active researcher and writer. He has published eight books, over fifty journal articles and over eighty conference presentations and book chapters. He is well known for his research in computer-supported system design and modeling, system failures and risk assessment, computer-supported cooperative work and the diffusion of complex technologies. He is currently researching the development and management of digital services and the evolution of virtual communities. Kalle is also active in the international information systems community. He has served in leadership positions for several academic organizations, conferences and journals. He also reviews research grants for the National Science Foundation, the Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish and British Research Councils, and the European Union. He currently serves on the editorial boards of ten information system and organization theory journals.

 

Kalle consults to organizations on issues of systems development, new media and mobile commerce. His clients have included large retail chains, global manufacturers, software houses, telecommunications companies, governmental departments and major libraries,

Prior to joining Weatherhead, Kalle was the Dean of the Faculty of Technology at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. He has held visiting positions at the Royal Technical Institute of Sweden, the London School of Economics, the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Georgia State University, Aalborg University, The University of Pretoria, South Africa and Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

 

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