Mike Cushman's publications

Information systems and problem structuring methods 

• Cushman, M and W Venters (2004) ‘Making sense of rich pictures: combining SSM and oval mapping’ (PDF), Operational Research Society 46th Annual Conference (OR46) York, 7-9 September 2004
  
  
• Venters, W, M Cushman and T Cornford (2004 forthcoming) ‘Knowledge about sustainability: SSM as a method for conceptualising the UK construction industry's knowledge environment’ (PDF), Journal of Computing and Information Technology
  
  
• Cushman, M and LA Franco (2004) ‘Cross-organisational learning: sharing insights from managing major construction projects’ (PDF), Planning under Pressure: the strategic choice approach (Friend, J and A Hickling eds) (third edn) Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, pp 340-344
  
  
• Cushman, M and J Rosenhead (2004) ‘Planning in the face of politics: reshaping children's health services in inner London’ (PDF), Operations Research and Health Care: a handbook of methods and applications (Brandeau, M, F Sainfort and W Pierskalla eds) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, USA, pp 559-595
  
  
• Franco, LA, M Cushman and J Rosenhead (2003) ‘Project review and learning in the construction industry: embedding a problem structuring method within a partnership context’, European Journal of Operational Research 152 (3), pp 586-601
  
  
• Venters, W, N Mitev, M Cushman and T Cornford (2003) ‘Practiced knowledge and knowledgeable practices: weaving stories from engineering to culture’, Third Social Study of IT Workshop: knowledge and organizing London, April 2003
  
  
• Venters, W, M Cushman and T Cornford (2003) ‘Motility of practiced knowledge: an exploration within the UK construction industry’ (PDF), The Fourth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities, Barcelona, 13-14 April 2003
  
  
• Cushman, M and T Cornford (2003) ‘Infrastructures for construction collaboration: the cross organisational learning approach’, International Journal of IT in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 1 (1) pp 67-78
  
  
• Venters, W, M Cushman and T Cornford (2002) ‘Inter-organisational motility of construction knowledge practices’ (PDF), e-sm@rt 2002: towards a European knowledge economy in the construction and related sectors Salford, UK, 18-21 November 2002
  
  
• Cushman, M, W Venters, T Cornford and N Mitev (2002) ‘Understanding sustainability as knowledge practice’ (PDF), British Academy of Management Conference: fast-tracking performance through partnerships London, UK, 9-11 September 2002
  
  
• Cushman, M and J Rosenhead (2002) ‘Agreeing a strategy for the delivery of children’s health services: replacing ambiguity by specificity through the use of strategic choice’, The Sixteenth Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies Edinburgh, 8-12 July, 2002
  
  
• Cushman, M, LA Franco and J Rosenhead (2002) ‘Problem structuring methods for cross-organizational learning’, Understanding Collaboration: international perspectives on theory method and practice (Stewart, M and D Purdue eds) Faculty of the Built Environment, UWE, Bristol, pp 45-51
  
  
• Venters, W, M Cushman and T Cornford (2002) ‘Creating knowledge for sustainability: using SSM for describing knowledge environments and conceptualising technological interventions’ (PDF), The Third European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities Athens, 5-6 April 2002
  
  
• Rosenhead, J, M Cushman, J Pratt, AM Pickup and E Rowbottom (2001) ‘”Soft” crime prevention - some UK experience’, International Conference on OR in Development Berg-en-Dal, Kruger National Park, South Africa, May 16-18, 2001
  
  
• Cushman, M, LA Franco and J Rosenhead (2001) ‘Learning from partners in the construction industry: a feedback approach to cross-organizational learning’ (PDF), 8th International Conference in Multi-Organizational Partnerships and Co-operative Strategy Bristol, 12-14 July 2001
  
  
• Cushman, M (2001) ‘Action research in the UK construction industry - the B-Hive Project’ (PDF), IFIP WG 8.2 working conference on Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: the social and organizational perspective, Boise, Idaho, USA, 27-29 July 2001
  
  
• Land, F, L Mathiassen, B Galliers, M Cushman and R Baskerville (2001) ‘Collaboration between academics and practitioners using action research’, Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: the social and organizational perspective (Russo, NL, B FitzGerald and JI DeGross eds) Kluwer Academic, Boston, pp 467-470
  
  
• Introna, LD, M Cushman and H Moore (2000) ‘The virtual organisation - technical or social innovation? Lessons from the film industry’ (PDF), Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Information Systems pp 615-622, Vienna
  
  
• Orange, G, M Cushman and A Burke (1999) ‘COLA: a cross organisational learning approach within UK industry’ (PDF), 4th International Conference on Networking Entities (Neties'99) Donau-Universität, Krems, Austria, 18-19 March 1999
  
  
• Orange, G, A Burke and M Cushman (1999) ‘An approach to support reflection and organisation learning within the UK construction industry’ (PDF), BITWorld'99: business information technology management: the global imperative Cape Town, South Africa, 30 June - 2 July 1999
  
  
• Cushman, M, et al (1999) Gaining Value through Review and Learning: a construction industry user's guide to the cross organisational learning approach (PDF), B-Hive Project, LSE, London

Other publications 

• 2001, joint editor Aylesbury Revisited Outreach in the 1980s (second edition), Leicester, National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education
  
  
• 2001 (with Dan Taubman) ‘A history of ILEA outreach work and its precursors’, Aylesbury Revisited Outreach in the 1980s (second edition), Leicester, National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education
  
  
• 1997 The Great Jewel Robbery: adult education in inner London since the break up of the Inner London Education Authority London: NATFHE
  
  
• 1996 A Survey of Vocational Education and Training for Unemployed People in Hackney London: Hackney Task Force
  
  
• 1996 ‘Such things as bores are made of’, Guardian 22 October 1996
  
  
• 1996 ‘Narrow vision of adult learning’, TES 6 September 1996
  
  
• 1995 ‘Leaving adult education: an open letter’, Adults Learning, 6 (6)
  
  
• 1994 ‘The “Toys R Us” market’, Education, 184 (25)
  
  
• 1982 ‘Resources for adult education’, NATFHE Journal, 7 (1)
  
  
• 1978 joint editor Let Loose, Bedford: Write First Time

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