Abstracts of PhD theses completed 2005-2009

This page contains links to abstracts of PhD research completed within the Information Systems and Innovation Group of LSE between 2005 and 2009 and contact information for many of the authors, please click on the name to read the abstract. You can also view an Index of PhDs completed in the Information Systems and Innovation Group.

You can read the full-text of selected theses on-line

A

• Al-Taitoon, Adel
  Making Sense of Mobile ICT-Enabled Trading in Fast Moving Financial Markets as Volatility-Control Ambivalence: case study on the organisation of off-premises foreign exchange at a Middle East bank
  

B

• Baptista, João
  “An organisation gets the intranet it deserves”: institutionalisation as a process of interplay between technology and its organisational context of use
  
  
• Bassoli, Arianna
  Living the Urban Experience: Implications for the Design of Everyday Computational Technologies
  
  
• Boateng, Kofi
  Contemporary Work Practices: On the Dynamics of Control in Technology Mediated Interaction
   
• Bukhalenkov, Evgeny
  Institutionalisation of technology-supported organisational processes: a structurational perspective on IT Service Management technology

C

• Canhoto, Ana Isabel
  Profiling behaviour: the social construction of categories in the detection of financial crime
   
• Cornut, Francis
  The Discursive Construction of Software Development
  

D

• Demetis, Dionisis
  A Systems Theoretical approach for Anti-Money Laundering informed by a Case Study in a Greek Financial Institution: Self-reference, AML, its systemic constitution and technological consequences
  
  
• Desta, Amare
  Comprehending Indigenous Knowledge: An Ethnographic Study of Knowledge Processes within Natural Resource Management
   

E

• Elaluf-Calderwood, Silvia
  Organizing Situated Choice and Sedimented Practices: The emergence of new working practices and routines following IT interventions
   
• Elbanna, Amany:
  Interpreting the Implementation of Integrated Packaged Software: the case of enterprise resource planning
  
  
• Ezer, Jonathan:
  Institutional Forces that Influence Higher ICT-education in India

G

• Giannaris, Constantinos:
  Making Sense of Knowledge Creation Processes: the case of a Greek petrochemical company
   
• Gillard, Hazel
  Narratives of ICT Exclusion and Inclusion: exploring tensions between policy, gender and network engineer training
  
  
• Grous, Alexander
  Managerial Practices, ICT and Productivity in Emerging Business Organisation Forms: the effect of managerial practices on ICT-driven productivity in aerospace business clusters.

H

• Halperin, Ruth:
  Learning Technology in Higher Education: a structurational perspective on technology mediated learning practices
  
  
• Haq, Farooq:
  The Role of Information Systems in Islamic Banking: an ethnographic study
  
  
• Hatami, Afsoun
  Strategic Knowledge Management for Sustainable Competitive Advantage: a comparative analysis of how leading US and German enterprises approach the knowledge challenge
  
  
• Hercheui, Magda David
  An institutional analysis of governance structures: how institutional carriers influence decision making in Brazilian environmental-education Internet-mediated communities
   

I

• Iannacci, Frederico:
  The Social Epistemology of Open Source Software Development: the Linux case study
  
  

J

• Johnstone, Justine:
  Knowledge, Development and Technology: internet use among voluntary-sector AIDS organisations in KwaZulu-Natal

K

• Khanna, Ashutosh
  ‘Dynamism’ of Networks: A case study of the peer-to-peer Gnutella Network
  
  
• Kietzmann, Jan
  Conceptualising Mobile Communities of Practice
   
• Kopanaki, Evi
  The Impact of Inter-Organisational Information Systems on Organisational Flexibility

L

• Laperrouza, Marc
  China’s Telecommunication Policy-Making in the Context of Trade and Economic Reforms
   
• Lawrence, Cameron:
  The Transformation of IT Governance: a neo-institutional interpretation
  

N

• Navarra, Diego:
  The Governance Architecture of Global ICT Programmes: A Case Study of E-Government in Jordan

O

• Osei-Joehene, Daniel:
  An "Impressionist" Ethnography of Risk in the Development of Corporate Information Infrastructure

P

• Panourgias, Niki
  Information and communication technologies and the integration of financial marketplaces: the development of the Euroclear Single Platform for cross-border securities settlement
   
• Pica, Daniele
  The Rhythms of Interaction with Mobile Technologies: Tales from the Police

S

• Shaikh, Maha
  Version Control Software in the Open Source Process: A Performative View of Learning and Organizing in the Linux Collectif
  
  
• Smith, Matthew
  Confianza a la Chilena: a comparative study of how e-services influence public sector institutional trustworthiness and trust
  

T

• Thatcher, Sarah  
  Public Policy and the Social Construction of Cyberterror: the hunt for the paper tiger
   
• Tseng, Jimmy
  Securing Electronic Transactions - A case study of technical and institutional change in credit card payment networks
   
• Tsiavos, Prodromos
  Cultivating Creative Commons: From Creative Regulation to Regulatory Commons
  

V

• Voutsina, Katerina
  IT Experts in Flexible Forms of Employment

W

• Wiggins, Anne
  Worlds Apart: SMEs, e-Business and Policy Initiatives
  

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