DrPetri Hallikainen

Dr Petri Hallikainen holds a D.Sc. (Econ.) degree from the Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. He earned his M.Sc. and L.Sc. degrees from the same institution. He was also awarded the title of Adjunct Professor at the Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland. Before joining the discipline of Business Information Systems at The University of Sydney Business School he worked as Assistant Professor at the Aalto University School of Business, Department of Business Technology, discipline of Information Systems Science. Petri’s research focuses on understanding the use of novel digital technologies in organisations. Particularly, he is interested in understanding the managerial challenges and the organisational changes that are caused by the introduction of the new digital technologies. He is doing case study research aiming at understanding the adoption of the digital technologies in their organisational context. He has conducted or is currently conducting case studies on topics, such as Robotic Process Automation, the use of the Internet of Things technology in organisations and the application of the Blockchain technology in organisations. He serves as associate editor for the Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) journal. He has taught a range of topics both on the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including topics such as Enterprise Systems, Project Management and Information Systems Sourcing.