Prof Walsham will address the following topic: “Are we making a better world with ICTs? Reflections on a future agenda for the IS field”
See the UCD event notice (link)
]]>There are two contrasting views on the design of objects for use; one that a successful design disappears from view; the other, that design is evident in its outward character be it aesthetic, arresting, bold, pleasing etc. Although the aspiration to produce good design is pretty well embedded in the language of digital development what does it mean, really? And how do users really fare? Particularly users outside of the one-standard-deviation-from-the-bell-curve of the normal distribution?
Siobhán Long and Karl O'Keeffe from Enable Ireland Disability Services will also be on hand to field questions dealing with how users with different needs and abilities evaluate the systems that designers produce.
]]>For further information see www.wi.rwth-aachen.de/InformationInfrastructures
]]>Prof Walsham will address the following topic: “Are we making a better world with ICTs? Reflections on a future agenda for the IS field”
See the UCD event notice (link)
]]>Davide Nicolini gave the opening address, asking ...can the practice-based approach be of interest to IS scholars?. A video of the address can be viewed at vimeo.com/49367599
Geoff Walsham provided the closing address, asking ...are we making a better world with ICTs?
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This year’s organising committee is Simeon Vidolov, Gianluca Miscione, and Allen Higgins.
See the call for papers on Google Docs http://goo.gl/Q2udO, and the event notice at www.ucd.ie and at http://mis.ucd.ie/news/quad2012.
The Quadrangular Conference was supported by the UCD School of Business and hosted by the Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO).
The second triangular conference is hosted by the Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO), UCD School of Business.
The WIKI lists abstracts and full papers accepted for Triangular 2008.
Significant time will be allocated to each individual to present and discuss their research. We encourage you to consider this event as a forum for collective help giving and learning which requires attendees to diligently prepare and openly share their research difficulties with both faculty and peers. The faculty are committed to providing detailed feedback and also facilitate discussions around emergent themes. We expect a collage of conceptually and methodologically diverse presentations, provoking in-depth discussions in an informal and intimate setting.
We are pleased to announce Professor Dermot Moran from UCD’s School of Philosophy as our invited speaker. Professor Moran will discuss phenomenology and re-examine its application into Organisation and IS studies. We anticipate that Professor Moran’s contribution (facilitated by Professor Lucas Introna) will bring fresh insights into Phenomenologically oriented IS and Organisational research and encourage an interesting discussion about its trajectories. (a recording of the seminar is now available)
This year’s organising committee is Simeon Vidolov, Peadar O’Scolai, Raoni Guerra Lucas Rajão, Isam Faik, and Allen Higgins.
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The call for papers invites scholars from IS and organizational studies to present preliminary research findings and/or challenging theoretical and methodological issues concerning their research. Acceptance will be competitive and numbers limited. We welcome theoretically diverse papers encompassing Institutional Theory, Ethnomethodology, Phenomenology, Theories of Practice, Actor-Network Theory, and others. Research areas will cover a spectrum of settings and organisational challenges – for example, IS in developing countries, health care, business ethics, environmental issues, software development, IS implementation and adoption, and E-government.
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The Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO) is home to a multi-disciplinary research community that is broadly concerned with understanding the role played by information, knowledge and information and communication technologies (ICT) in organisational processes, both within and between business corporations and broader social institutions. More specifically, a key focus of the Centre's research activities is on understanding the dynamics of ICT-enabled organisational change, and on developing approaches and implications for the management of IS innovation.
The research activities of CITO are focused on understanding the relationship between innovation, technology and organisation, and the associated policy and management implications. Our approach is guided by the assumption that a sophisticated understanding of information and technology, and their role in the constitution of social and organisational life, should be based on an appreciation of how such artefacts come to be embedded within broader institutional (organisational, cultural, economic, political) contexts. As such, our research work is concerned with in-depth empirical studies of information systems implementation and use that are especially attentive to the underlying social relations within which such systems are embedded. We are committed to developing appropriate theoretical perspectives for illuminating such processes by drawing from a variety of intellectual traditions, including philosophy, sociology, political science, psychology, economics and organisation theory. The emphasis is on the pragmatic use of theory to make tangible and insightful contributions to management practice.
CITO’s work focuses on several research streams:
These streams aim to develop understanding of the relationship between ICT and social/organisational transformation, including the role that ICT may play in facilitating innovative or virtual forms of organising based on new modes of communication, co-ordination, collaboration, and surveillance and control. This has direct implications for the work of information management and the informatisation of social/ organisational processes, Knowledge creation and management. Our analysis is informed theoretically and empirically by paying attention to the practice of IS implementation/innovation; practices associated with IS strategy formation, evaluation, design and development, and the management of technological change.
Diabetes Literacy - Enhancing the (cost)-effectivenss of diabetes self-management education: A comparative assessment of different educational approaches and conditions for successful implementation
Frank Froessler: RTC (Real-time Collaboration Studies), Innovation and Change of Social Practices.
Simeon Vidolov: Basic Assumptions in Global Software Development.
Peadar O Scolai: IS Innovation in Healthcare, Implementation and Use of Electronic Healthcare Record Systems.
Audio and video (restricted access, login required)
]]>Iona's Orbix product is often considered to have been a run-away success from day one, but we can also argue that Orbix was successful because of the way the company was organised and the way it ‘organised’ its market. Their business model was evident in how they primed the market for their product Orbix and this was reflected in the organisation's culture, its values and vision. Iona was...
The way Iona ‘organised’ was the key.
]]>This year will be the fifth annual event and will be hosted by Lancaster University.
This year’s conference takes its name and focuses from the department of Organisation, Work and Technology.
In previous years, The PhD Quadrangular Conference was organised through a thematically-focussed call-for-papers. This year the invitation focused on PhD students and was left open to thesis-specific proposals. This was a means towards inclusivity and accommodating changing trends in research. From this open call, three sessions of focus have emerged:
In addition to these sessions being a useful platform for the PhD participants to present and receive feedback on their work, they also provide an account of the current research interests developing across the four institutions.
Chris Horn; Engineer, current President of Engineers Ireland, previously non-exec chair of UNICEF Ireland, founding chairman of the Ireland China Association, founder Chairman and CEO of Iona Technologies and currently involved in a number of high-tech start-ups both in Ireland and abroad.
]]>Two cases from the growing field of geo-information management, representing two different paradigms, are discussed: Spatial Data Infrastructure and Human Sensor Web.
See the event notice for further details.
The Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation is concerned with exploring a range of perspectives that depart from conventional thinking about management theory and practice, and its role in the development of the contemporary world. The emphasis is on approaches to understanding management, organisation, business and technology that are based on social constructionist perspectives on the world (and, thus, centred on issues of process, meaning and power).
The group is particularly interested in empirically grounded work (regardless of whether this is based on qualitative or quantitative research approaches) that attempts to develop and extend theory and to relate it to management practice.
To facilitate productive inter-disciplinary exchange, speakers from diverse cognate disciplines have been invited to present their research and the theoretical ideas that underpins their work, to demonstrate its practical usefulness for understanding aspects of organisational life. Contributions are solicited from researchers working within a wide range of management disciplines (including organisation theory, accounting, information systems, marketing, industrial relations and HRM).
Earlier seminar announcements can be viewed here.
Information on the NuDIMS research seminar series is indexed from the NuDIMS homepage.
The Quadrangular Conference in Technology, Organizations and Society 2009 is the third annual symposium organised jointly by the University of Cambridge, Lancaster University, University College Dublin and the London School of Economics. This year’s event is hosted by the Information Systems Group at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
We welcome theoretically diverse papers encompassing, but not limited to, approaches that draw on Social Theory, Philosophy, Psychology, Public Policy, Cultural Studies and Political Thought. Research areas will cover a wide spectrum organisational and social challenges, such as:
Application areas may include healthcare, open-source, collaborative technologies, e-government or any other setting that presents interesting socio-technical phenomena.
April 20th, 2009 Abstract submission deadline (up to 500 words excluding refs)
May 5th, 2009 Notification of acceptance
May 20th, 2009 Final submission deadline
As in previous years the conference provides an opportunity for Doctoral students to meet, exchange ideas, present their papers and receive feedback in a stimulating and supportive environment. Significant time will be allocated to each individual to present and discuss their research. We encourage you to consider this event as a forum for collective help giving and learning which requires attendees to diligently prepare and openly share their research difficulties with both faculty and peers. The faculty are committed to providing detailed feedback and also facilitate discussions around emergent themes. We expect a collage of conceptually and methodologically diverse presentations, provoking in-depth discussions in an informal and intimate setting.
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (Click here to view a map)
Monday June 1st to Wednesday June 3rd 2009
Full Papers – for accomplished research results or advanced theoretical discussions (maximum 5,000 words).
Short Papers – For work in progress or preliminary theoretical thoughts (maximum 2,500 words).
Extended abstracts – For early stage research plans and reviews of pertinent literature (maximum 1,000 words)
For more information please contact:
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou at ak553@cam.ac.uk]]>
A welcome reception will be held on the evening of June 1 and the main activities of the conference will take place over June 2-3.
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