Tuure Tuunanen is a Professor of Information Systems in the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä. He leads the Value Creation for Cyber-Physical Systems and Services Research Group and Finnish Hub for Digitalization. He is also a global faculty fellow of the Center for Service Leadership at Arizona State University. He holds M.Sc. and D.Sc. (Econ.) degrees from the Aalto University School of Business.

Dr. Tuunanen’s research is at the cross-sections of information systems, software engineering, marketing, and service science, and he is keenly interested in multi-disciplinary research in service innovation, design, and development. His prior research has focused on requirements engineering, information systems development, and risk management. He also does research on design science research methodologies and theory development. His current research interests lie in the area of digital and cyber-physical services.

He is an associate editor for Communication of the Association for Information Systems (department of digital design) and Journal of Service Research and a senior editor for European Journal of Information Systems and Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He is also an editorial board member of Information Systems Research.

Selected Publications

Peffers, K, Tuunanen, T, Rothenberger, MA, & Chatterjee, S (2007). A design science research methodology for information systems research. Journal of management information systems, 24(3), 45-77

Peffers, K, Tuunanen, T, & Niehaves, B (2018). Design science research genres: introduction to the special issue on exemplars and criteria for applicable design science research. European Journal of Information Systems, 27(2), 129-139

Peffers, K, Gengler, CE, & Tuunanen, T (2003). Extending critical success factors methodology to facilitate broadly participative information systems planning. Journal of management information systems, 20(1), 51-85

Mathiassen, L, Tuunanen, T, Saarinen, T, & Rossi, M (2007). A contigency model for requirements development. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 8(11), 33Peffers, K, & Tuunanen, T (2005). Planning for IS applications: a practical, information theoretical method and case study in mobile financial services. Information &Management, 42(3), 483-501

Tuunanen, T, Myers, MD, & Cassab, H (2010). A conceptual framework for consumer information systems development. Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2(1), 5

Peters, C, Maglio, P, Badinelli, R, Harmon, RR, Maull, R, Spohrer, JC, & ... (2016). Emerging digital frontiers for service innovation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 39(1), 8

Tuunanen, T, & Cassab, H (2011). Service process modularization: reuse versus variation in service extensions. Journal of Service Research, 14(3), 340-354