Dr Tapani Rinta-Kahila
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Digital Enterprise
Australian Institute for Business and Economics
+61 7 334 68164

Tapani Rinta-Kahila is Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in the Digital Enterprise research program at the Australian Institute for Business and Economics. He holds a doctoral degree in Information Systems Science from the Aalto University School of Business.
Tapani’s research addresses current issues with socio-technical change in organisations. Focus areas include the organisational implementation of artificial intelligence and automation, the identification and prevention of technologies’ negative effects on individuals and organisations, as well as the discontinuance of incumbent information technologies.
Journal Articles
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Someh, Ida, Gillespie, Nicole, Indulska, Marta and Gregor, Shirley (2023). Managing unintended consequences of algorithmic decision-making: the case of Robodebt. Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases. doi: 10.1177/20438869231165538
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Someh, Ida, Gillespie, Nicole, Indulska, Marta and Gregor, Shirley (2021). Algorithmic decision-making and system destructiveness: a case of automatic debt recovery. European Journal of Information Systems, 31 (3), 1-26. doi: 10.1080/0960085X.2021.1960905
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Penttinen, Esko, Kumar, Ashish and Janakiraman, Ramkumar (2021). Customer reactions to self-checkout discontinuance. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 61 102498, 102498. doi: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102498
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Penttinen, Esko and Lyytinen, Kalle (2021). Organizational transformation with intelligent automation: Case Nokia Software. Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, 11 (2), 204388692095487-109. doi: 10.1177/2043886920954874
Asatiani, Aleksandre, Malo, Pekka, Nagbol, Per Radberg, Penttinen, Esko, Rinta-Kahila, Tapani and Salovaara, Antti (2021). Sociotechnical envelopment of artificial intelligence: an approach to organizational deployment of inscrutable artificial intelligence systems. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 22 (2), 325-352. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00664
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani and Penttinen, Esko (2021). Four flavours of customers: a dual-system perspective on self-service technology use. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 25, 1-27. doi: 10.3127/ajis.v25i0.2671
Asatiani, Aleksandre, Malo, Pekka, Nagb, Per Radberg, Penttinen, Esko, Rinta-Kahila, Tapani and Salovaara, Antti (2020). Challenges of explaining the behavior of black-box AI systems. MIS Quarterly Executive, 19 (4), 259-278. doi: 10.17705/2msqe.00037
Soliman, Wael and Rinta-Kahila, Tapani (2019). Toward a refined conceptualization of IS discontinuance: reflection on the past and a way forward. Information and Management, 57 (2) 103167, 103167. doi: 10.1016/j.im.2019.05.002
Penttinen, Esko and Rinta-Kahila, Tapani (2017). Onboarding customer companies to electronic invoicing platform - developing a marketing and a partnering strategy for Tieto, an e-invoicing service provider. Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, 7 (1), 43-50. doi: 10.1057/s41266-016-0015-x
Conference Papers
Mäki, Netta, Penttinen, Esko and Rinta-Kahila, Tapani (2023). A Domino Effect: Interdependencies among Different Types of Technical Debt. IEEE Computer Society.
Ruha, Lauri, Rinta-Kahila, Tapani and Penttinen, Esko (2023). Robotic Process Automation from the Design-Capital Perspective - Effects on Technical Debt and Digital Options. IEEE Computer Society.
Esko Penttinen, Tapani Rinta-Kahila and Jukka Sihvonen (2021). Pressuring trading partners to adopt a business-to-business connectivity platform - stick or carrot?. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI, United States, 4-8 January 2021. Honolulu, HI, United States: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Luoma, Roni, Penttinen, Esko and Rinta-Kahila, Tapani (2020). How to enforce presenteeism with ICT while mitigating technostress – a case study. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , Maui, HI, United States, 7-10 January 2020. Maui, HI, United States: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. doi: 10.24251/hicss.2020.749
Asatiani, Aleksandre, Penttinen, Esko, Rinta-Kahila, Tapani and Salovaara, Antti (2019). Implementation of automation as distributed cognition in knowledge work organizations: six recommendations for managers. 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2019), Munich, Germany, 15-18 December 2019. Atlanta, GA USA: Association for Information Systems.
Soliman, Wael, Rinta-Kahila, Tapani and Kaikkonen, Joona (2019). Why is your crowd abandoning you? Exploring crowdsourcing discontinuance through the lens of motivation theory. Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Perth, WA, Australia, 8-11 December 2019. New York, United States: Association for Information Systems.
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani (2018). Caught in between: how an organization became a prisoner of its legacy system after is change. 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2018), San Francisco, CA United States, 13-16 December 2018. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Penttinen, Esko, Salovaara, Antti and Soliman, Wael (2018). Consequences of discontinuing knowledge work automation - surfacing of deskilling effects and methods of recovery. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2018), Waikoloa Village, Big Island, HI, United States, 2-6 January 2018. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. doi: 10.24251/hicss.2018.654
Soliman, Wael and Rinta-Kahila, Tapani (2018). Unethical but not illegal: uncovering the persuasive messages leveraged by providers of the “real” online social impressions. 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2018), Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 23-28 June 2018. Association for Information Systems.
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Penttinen, Esko and Pääsky, Hans-Petteri (2018). How to check out?: an empirical exploration of customers’ different cognitive processes in retailing context. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2018), Waikoloa Village, Big Island, HI, United States, 2-6 January 2018. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. doi: 10.24251/hicss.2018.487
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani and Soliman, Wael (2017). Understanding crowdturfing: the different ethical logics behind the clandestine industry of deception. 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017), Guimaraes, Portugal, 5-10 June 2017. Association for Information Systems.
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Penttinen, Esko and Nevalainen, Anssi (2016). Unfolding the types of organizational inertia in information systems adoption. 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2016), Koloa, Kauai, HI, United States, 5-8 January 2016. Los Alamitos, CA, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/hicss.2016.486
Penttinen, Esko, Kahila, Tapani-Rinta, Ronkko, Mikko and Saarinen, Timo (2014). Triggering intention to use to actual use - empirical evidence from self-service checkout (SCO) systems. 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2014), Waikoloa, HI, United States, 06-09 January 2014. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/hicss.2014.414
Research Reports
Bidar, Reihaneh, Someh, Ida, Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Williams, Katie, Indulska, Marta and Ryan, Ian (2023). Redesigning work with Artificial Intelligence. SAP Thought Leadership Paper: Public Sector Brisbane, Australia; Canberra, Australia: The University of Queensland; SAP Institute for Digital Government. doi: 10.14264/6428cca
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Someh, Ida, Indulska, Marta and Ryan, I. (2022). Building Artificial Intelligence capability in the public sector. SAP Thought Leadership Paper: Public Sector Brisbane, Australia; Canberra, Australia: The University of Queensland; SAP Institute for Digital Government. doi: 10.14264/91738b9
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Someh, Ida, Indulska, Marta, Ryan, Ian and van Leent, Ryan (2021). Building explainability into public sector artificial intelligence: helping stakeholders understand the thinking behind AI decision-making. SAP Thought Leadership Paper: Public Sector Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland; SAP SE.
Rinta-Kahila, Tapani, Someh, Ida, Gillespie, Nicole, Indulska, Marta, Gregor, Shirley , Van Leent, Ryan and Ryan, Ian (2020). Delivering AI programs in the public sector: guidelines for government leaders. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland and SAP SE.