Information systems research: the 'infurgic' perspective

The information systems laboratory (LABORIS) is the focus of information sy stems research in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. LABORIS itself has 12 researchers, three of whom have doctorates. The LABORIS activ ities are financed 40% by University, 40% by research funding and the rest by industrial contracts. LABORIS is part of the Turku Centre for Computer S cience which co-ordinates work of IT related activities of the two Finnish and Swedish universities and Turku School of Economics and Business Adminis tration. The Centre's prime focus is the running of the Graduate School whe re 50 doctoral students are at work. The LABORIS was founded and managed by Professor Nurminen. The core of its competence lies in the relationships b etween information systems (IS) and work (in Latin labor). There is a signi ficant overlap among people working in LABORIS and the IS group of the depa rtment. However, LABORIS is a useful organisational unit that works on vari ous research contracts with industry and less on undergraduate teaching. (C ) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.