Biography:Knut Rolland

Short description: Norwegian researcher

Knut-Helge Ronæs Rolland (20 February 1973 – 10 February 2021) was a Norwegian information systems researcher working at the University of Oslo. Rolland's research focused on explaining the organizational consequences of large-scale information systems and collaboration systems.

Career

Rolland received a Master of Science in informatics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1997. In 2003, he received a PhD in information systems from the Department of informatics at the University of Oslo. After a stint as Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Rolland left academia to work at Evry and Steria. In 2013, he returned to academia, taking over a position at the Norwegian School of Information Technology before joining the University of Oslo.

Selected publications

• K. H. Rolland. Re-inventing Information Infrastructures in Situated Practices of Use: An interpretive Case Study of Information Technology and Work Transformation in a Global Company, PhD thesis, University of Oslo, 2003.

Articles, a selection:

• Rolland, K. H., Mathiassen, L., & Rai, A. (2018). Managing digital platforms in user organizations: The interactions between digital options and digital debt. Information Systems Research 29(2), 419-443.
• Hepsø, V., Monteiro, E., & Rolland, K. H. (2009). Ecologies of e-Infrastructures. Journal of the Association for Information Systems 10(5), 2.
• Rolland, K. H., & Monteiro, E. (2002). "Balancing the local and the global in infrastructural information systems. The Information Society 18(2), 87-100.