Background and experience
- BEng in Aeronautical Mechanical Engineering
- MBA with a specialisation in Information Systems
- PhD in Information Systems
Areas of responsibility
- Teaching and research in information systems at UiA
- Leader of the ICT4D Research Group at UiA
- President of the AIS Special Interest Group on ICT and Global Development (GlobDev)
Teaching
- IS-100 - The Role of Digitalisation in Society
- IS-404 - Research Methods in Information Systems
- ME-434 - Methods
- SV-424 - Technology and Politics
Publications
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Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz & Techatassanasoontorn, Angsana A.
(2026).
Beyond visuals: Advancing inclusion for blind professionals through information collaboration.
Information and organization.
ISSN 1471-7727.
36(3).
doi:
10.1016/j.infoandorg.2026.100639.
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The ubiquitous productivity software for information-sharing and collaboration activities has been designed mainly for a sighted organisational environment. This ingrained assumption inevitably leads to normative and habitual information sharing and collaborative practices that accentuate the ‘visual’ nature of information, consequently excluding blind professionals from workplace participation. By acknowledging the interconnectedness between exclusion and inclusion as socially embedded processes and considering the entanglement between visual information representations and visual information practices, this study examines how blind and sighted professionals use digital tools to overcome the challenges of working in a predominantly visual information context. We examine email messages, office documents and PowerPoint slides as they are commonly used information objects in organisations. Our multilevel analysis pays attention to the enabling and constraining roles of representational materialities of information and scrutinises the individual actions of blind professionals, their dyadic interactions with sighted colleagues and the emerging collective actions with other sighted individuals. Drawing on our analysis, we develop a workplace inclusion framework that articulates carefully orchestrated collaborative processes between sighted and blind professionals to overcome constraints imposed by visuals. These processes reveal how ambiguity, imperfection and complexity in information representations trigger the reframing of visuals and deliberate actions of disconfirmation, enquiry and remaking of habitual ways of working with information, thereby evolving collaborative information practices, namely de-visualising, re-visualising, and co-visualising, that shape workplace inclusion.
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Stich, Jean-François; Küpers, Wendelin & Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz
(2025).
Holiworking: Perspectives on New Ways of Integrating Holiday and Work.
Work, Employment and Society.
ISSN 0950-0170.
p. 1–23.
doi:
10.1177/09500170251373033.
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Digitally enabled work arrangements such as remote work, mobile work and digital nomadism have increasingly been researched. More recently, a distinct form of work arrangement has emerged that allows employees to relocate temporarily to a foreign destination where they simultaneously engage in both professional work and leisure activities. This study develops an empirically grounded, substantive theory of this emerging novel arrangement termed ‘holiwork’. Employing grounded theory methodology, the research draws upon the experiences of six individuals engaged in holiwork. The findings illustrate that holiwork constitutes a complex blend of ambivalent feelings and experiences split between the novelty and alluring appeal of unfamiliar cultural environments and the continuous demands of their full-time professional responsibilities. These insights contribute to the literature on the sociology of digitally mediated work, offering theoretical implications for understanding new work arrangements shaped by digital connectivity and global mobility.
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Stich, Jean-François; Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz & Kuepers, Wendelin M.
(2025).
Combining work and vacation: workation as an attractive work arrangement.
Personnel Review.
ISSN 0048-3486.
54(6),
p. 1501–1520.
doi:
10.1108/PR-07-2024-0627.
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Purpose
The fulfilling blend of work and leisure experienced by digital nomads has inspired some organizations to offer “workation” (work-vacation) as a new fringe benefit, allowing employees to work remotely from international locations while simultaneously engaging in travel and leisure activities. This study seeks to understand to what extent and under what conditions this workation arrangement is attractive to candidates compared to other work arrangements.
Design/methodology/approach
The research employs two vignette experiments that manipulate work arrangements, involving a total sample of 351 participants. The data and results were analyzed using multilevel regressions, moderation tests and simple slope tests.
Findings
The results indicate that job offerings featuring workation demonstrate significantly higher organizational attractiveness compared to those featuring other work arrangements. The appeal of workations is especially pronounced and attractive among candidates with previous international experience and positive attitudes towards such experiences, contingent upon their degree of community embeddedness.
Originality/value
Within the evolving landscape of changing work arrangements, this study contributes to the literature by distinguishing workation as an innovative and attractive work option. Additionally, the findings offer insights for human resource practices by identifying the specific reasons that make workation particularly enticing for certain candidates.
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Thapa, Devinder & Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz
(2024).
Framework for positioning empirical research in ICT4D.
In Masiero, Silvia & Kowal, Jolanta (Ed.),
Proceedings of the 16th Annual AIS SIG GlobDev Pre-ICIS Workshop (GLOBDEV 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday December 15, 2024).
Association for Information Systems (AIS).
ISSN 9781958200131.
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Krishnan, Satish; Diniz, Eduardo H.; Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz & Sahay, Sundeep
(2024).
Societal implications of ICTs.
MIS Quarterly.
ISSN 0276-7783.
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The ubiquity of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has generated growing
enthusiasm for its prospects to contribute to human development. At the same time, this
pervasiveness also carries the potential for unfavorable outcomes. Hence, the implications of
ICTs on society constitute a complex and multidimensional phenomenon with ambiguous
boundaries and often unintended consequences.
In this curated collection on the societal implications of ICTs, we include studies focused on
scrutinizing the consequences of digital technology on enabling or constraining different
aspects of people’s lives, such as access to health and education services, economic
opportunities, political participation, civic engagement, gender equality, and environmental
sustainability. The scope of these studies goes beyond the analysis of technology adoption,
governance, or value in an organizational setting. Instead, they examine the consequences of
digital technology on individuals and society in both the Global South and the Global North.
We scanned the titles and abstracts of all articles published in MIS Quarterly since its
inception in 1977 to identify those within the overarching theme of societal implications.
This screening yielded a pre-selection of 98 articles. Through an iterative process involving
the individual reading of those articles and collective discussions among the four authors to
assess relevance, we selected 71 articles1 for this curated collection. These articles are
categorized into six thematic groups (Table 1), which we believe can serve as a reference
point for scholars working on the societal implications of ICTs. Below, we expand on these
themes, organizing the narrative around how research has concentrated on macrostructures,
artifacts, and the specific groups affected by ICTs.
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Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz
(2023).
Dancing between theory and data: Abductive reasoning.
In Davison, Robert M. (Eds.),
Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems.
Edward Elgar Publishing.
ISSN 9781802205381.
p. 274–287.
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Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz; Techatassanasoontorn, Angsana A. & Singh, Harminder
(2023).
Understanding the digital experience: Phenomenological IS research.
In Davison, Robert M. (Eds.),
Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems.
Edward Elgar Publishing.
ISSN 9781802205381.
p. 88–103.
doi:
10.4337/9781802205398.00011.
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Phenomenology is about gaining insights into the lived experiences of individuals that are often taken for granted, which means revealing how individuals perceive the world pre-reflectively. These insights can be obtained and organised to make sense of individual experiences, which are ultimately subjective. This approach is not widely used in the information systems field, and this chapter argues why this is unfortunate, especially when technology is increasingly becoming woven into our everyday lives to allow us to perceive, embody and exist in the world. In such a situation, a phenomenological stance can provide scholars with a better appreciation of various everyday digital experience phenomena than other approaches because it does not rely on theories to offer causal explanations and does its best to avoid pre-conceptions. More importantly, phenomenological studies reveal the concrete richness and fundamental meanings of a phenomenon. The chapter provides background on phenomenology, describes the three main schools of thought, and presents opportunities for phenomenological research in information systems.
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Doolin, Bill; Techatassanasoontorn, Angsana A.; Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz & Singh, Harminder
(2025).
Digital transformation of public service delivery: An institutional logics perspective.
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Originating in the private sector, digital transformation has since been heralded by governments and other stakeholders as an inevitable and desirable path for citizens to thrive in the digital age. Digital transformation efforts are increasingly leading to public services being delivered as ‘digital first’ or ‘digital by default’. However, such an approach may have unintended consequences and risk excluding some members of society who are unable or unwilling to interact digitally with government. In this paper, we draw on the concept of institutional logics to critically analyse the dominant discourse of digital transformation in the New Zealand public sector. In doing so, we unpack the logic underpinning government digital transformation initiatives that are increasingly leading to the digital delivery of public services in many countries, including the UK.
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Elbanna, Amany; Koutsikouri, Dina; Jaser, Zahira; Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz; Ravinshakar, M. N. & Burton-Jones, Andrew
(2025).
Digital humanism vs. sociotechnical perspective: An exploration and future research agenda.
doi:
https:/aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2025/panels/panels/2.
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The panel addresses the emerging perspective, movement and potential field of Digital Humanism. Digital humanism rejects technology determinism and mainly argues for human-centered approaches to digital transformation and the design, development, implementation and use of digital technology. The panel provides an IS perspective to examine whether digital humanism is a new label for the sociotechnical perspective, revival and expansion of it or just a new school of thought. Commonalities and differences between digital humanism and the different sociotechnical approaches will be discussed and whether digital humanism call for newer approaches. The panel will examine how IS researchers can engage and contribute to the potential development of digital humanism. Through argumentation and active audience participation, the panel will uncover whether IS research should ignore, adopt or adapt its focus, purpose and approaches to formulate a digital humanism agenda.
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Singh, Harminder & Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz
(2025).
Evaluating The Use of Business Cases for Investing in Information Systems.
doi:
https:/aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2025/is_adoption/is_adoption/3.
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Information systems (IS) investment decisions are made using business cases, which compare the costs and benefits of IS investments. As information technology has developed, the types of costs and benefits, and who they fall on, have changed. This has implications for the utility of business cases, as the information they provide to decision-makers may be insufficient or not holistic enough. This paper uses a scoping review to explore this issue and describes the limitations of business cases, in that they do not capture the information necessary to understand the effects of technologies outside the focal firm. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research in this domain.
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Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz
(2025).
Voices from the Field: Engaging in and Reflecting on ICT4D Fieldwork.
doi:
https:/aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2025/ict_global/ict_global/2.
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Fieldwork offers the opportunity to obtain a first-hand experience of the world lived by research participants. This observation makes fieldwork particularly important in information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) research since ICT4D participants often live on the margins of society. Although conducting fieldwork is a common practice in the ICT4D area, it is rare to find thoughtful accounts of the propitious and problematic situations the researcher encounters. Most published ICT4D studies conform to a pre-established script where the explanation of fieldwork, if any, presents a succinct, sterile description that reports the data collection procedures. In this piece, I argue for the importance of engaged fieldwork and reflect upon my colleagues’ and my ICTD fieldwork experience. I claim that the perceptive ICT4D researcher can derive insightful theoretical lessons from the material collected in the field and revel in seeing how their findings can contribute to bringing about development for their participants.
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Andrade, Antonio Eduardo Diaz
(2024).
Inclusive Information Collaboration: A Multilevel Study of Blind and Sighted Professionals Working on Information.
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