The research emphasis is on developing and evaluating evolution models for IT management and on studying how organisational learning and management of information technology. One topic has been to build a model for evaluating the performance of information systems throughout the IS life cycle. The goal of this research area is to study new models of business, principles of electronic integeration and new applications of electronic commerce. Special topics addressed are changes in comsumer behaviour, mobile commerce, digital services and new value chains, and community based digital services. The research program is developing models, methods, and techniques for document management.
Document management is considered as a means for information management in enterprises.
Special focus is on structured documents like SGML, EDI, and software documents. The latest research is based on formal language and hypergraph theory. The work includes evaluation of existing systems and methods, and construction of new methods and experimental systems. The project is developing a method and environment to support program reading, comprehension, and maintenance. In the method, a hypertextual access structure is generated automatically for a specific maintenance task and information requests.