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Some risk factors exist within the implementation process of an ERP system in small companies. However, researchers claim different views on which impacts the implementation of ERP systems have. Actually, there are relatively few empirically based ERP implementation studies in small companies and its impact, as most of such studies are focused on larger companies. This paper is based on a case study at a small company. The aim of the paper is to explore risks at a small company when planning to implement an ERP system. The analysis shows that an ERP system is a good solution to avoid using systems that are not integrated. An ERP system could integrate all information in only one system, and all information could easily be accessed within that system. The implementation therefore lead to decreasing costs in the daily work as the activities and processes can be performed more effective and efficient.

Digitalization and technology are interventions seen as a solution to the increasing demand for healthcare services, but the associated changes of the services are characterized by multiple challenges. A work-integrated learning approach implies that the learning outcome is related to the learning environment and the learning affordances available at the actual workplace. To shape workplace affordances it is of great importance to get a deeper understanding of the social practices. This paper will explore a wide range of managers' and professionals' emotions, moods and feelings related to digitalization and new ways of providing healthcare services, as well as the professionals' knowledge and experiences. Zhang's affective response model (ARM) will be used as a systematic approach and framework to gain knowledge of how professionals and managers experience and experience digitization of municipal health services. The research question is: How can knowledge about dark sides of technology reduce barriers to work-integrated learning?This paper is based on a longitudinal study with a qualitative approach. Focus group discussions were used as method for collecting data. The findings and themes crystallized through the content analysis were then applied to the Affective Response Model as a systematic approach to gain more knowledge about professionals and managers' experiences and how that knowledge can reduce the barriers to work-integrated learning. Understanding of, and consciousness about the dark sides of technology and the professionals' affective responses may support the digitalization of the sector and the development of the new ways of providing healthcare services.

Action Design Research (ADR) is a Design Research (DR) method that enriches the Design Science Research (DSR) paradigm, by providing stages and principles for designing artifacts and allowing for their emergence in an organizational context. The method has been used and elaborated by scholars, extending the mode of the method and its stages, incorporating and adopting knowledge from related approaches such as Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Participatory Design (PD). In this paper, we have adopted principles and philosophy from PAR and PD to extend and elaborate the AD R method, by providing a front-end of Action Research (AR) that emphasizes learning through incremental iteration. We will introduce our elaborated method as Participatory Action Design Research (PADRE) and demonstrate how we have used it in our own research. We argue that the ADR method can benefit from incorporating learning within and across each and every stage iteratively. We also argue that learning can be used as a learning nexus, which informs and gets accumulated for formalization of learning that can be re-used within different cycles of ADR. Hence, we introduce PADRE and provide a model that consists of a set of key-components, which extends and elaborates the ADR method

In this paper, we present our designed prototype: CollaborGeneous. CollaborGeneous is a framework of collaborative IT-tools for heterogeneous groups of learners in Civic Orientation. It is designed to serve different types of activities for producing, maintaining, distributing and presenting digital learning-material within Civic Orientation. The significance of introducing our prototype is relevant for both practitioners and researchers within Design Science Research. The novelty of our artifact lies in its characteristic of use in the intersection between Civic Orientation and Information Systems, providing different groups of learner's necessary tools to collaborate and create an open digital experience of Civic Orientation.