Visiting professors

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Backhouse, James  (Visiting Professor)
Contact details: j.p.backhouse@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Managing information risks in the digital age; information risk and assurance; power, politics, and institutionalisation; identity management, privacy and security; certification and security management standards

Selected Publications:

• "Opportunities for Computer Crime: Considering Systems Risk from a Criminological perspective" (with Willison, R), European Journal of Information Systems, Vol 15, No.4, 403-414, August, ISSN 0960-085X.
• "Circuits of Power in Creating de jure Standards: Shaping the International IS security Standard" (with Carol W. Hsu and Leiser Silva),  Management of Information Systems Quarterly, special issue on Standard Making, Vol 30: 413-438, August, 2006, ISSN 0276-7783.
• "The Circuits-of-Power Framework for Studying Power in Institutionalization of Information Systems" (with Silva, L.), Journal of the Association of Information Systems, 4: (November) Article 14: 294-336, 2003, ISSN 1536-93232003.
• "Current directions in IS security research: toward socio-organizational perspectives" (with Dhillon, G.), Information Systems Journal, 11 (2): 127-153, 2001, ISSN 1350-1917.

EndNote library of publications

Professor James Backhouse's selected publications

Professor James Backhouse's personal web page  

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Galliers, Bob (Visiting Professor)
Contact details: rgalliers@bentley.edu
Research interests:  information systems strategy, knowledge management/innovation, inter-organizational systems, globalization, enterprise systems, management of change.

Selected Publications:

• Exploring Information Systems Research Approaches: Readings and Reflections (with M L Markus and S Newell ), Abingdon, Oxford: Palgrave, 2007.
• "On confronting some of the common myths of Information Systems strategy discourse", in The (Oxford) Handbook of Information and Communication Technology, R Mansell, D Quah & R Silverstone (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 225-243, 2006.
• "The creation of ‘best practice’ software: myth, reality and ethics" (with E L Wagner, S V Scott), Information & Organization, 16(3), September 2006, 251-275.
• "Reflections on Information Systems Strategizing", in Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts, C Avgerou, C Ciborra & F Land, (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 231-262, 2004.

Professor Bob Galliers' CV and Selected publications

Professor Bob Galliers, PhD's personal web page
 

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Hanseth, Ole (Visiting Professor)
Contact details: oleha@ifi.uio.no
Research interests: infrastructures; standardisation; actor networks

Selected Publications:

• 'Gateways - just as important as standards. How the Internet won the "religious war" about standards in Scandinavia' (PDF), Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Vol 14 No 3, Fall 2001, pp 71-89. Special issue on IT compatibility, 2002
• 'Better safe than sorry? In search of an internet business model in online entertainment' (PDF) (with O Henfridsson and H Holmström), Proceedings of IFIP WG 8.2: realigning research and practice in information systems development: the social and organizational perspective, NL Russo, B Fitzgerald and JI DeGross (eds), Boston, Kluwer: 183-201, 2001
• 'The control devolution: ERP and the side effects of globalization' (with Claudio Ciborra and Kristin Braa), The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, Special issue: Critical Analysis of ERP Systems: the macro level, Vol 32, No 4, Fall 2001, pp 34-46

Professor Ole Hanseth's personal web page

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Lanzara, Giovan Francesco (Visiting Professor)
Contact details: giovan.lanzara@unibo.it
Research interests: analysis of complex systems; ICT and innovation; learning processes in organizations and institutions; knowing and organizing; design theory; reflective practice.

Selected publications: 

• "The Institutionalization of Knowledge in an Automotive Factory: Templates, Inscriptions, and the Problem of Durability" (with G. Patriotta), Organization Studies, 28(5), May 2007:635-660
• "Technology and the Courtroom: An Inquiry into Knowledge Making in Organizations" (with G. Patriotta), Journal of Management Studies, 38(7), 2001: 943-971.
• "Between Transient Constructs and Persistent Structures: Designing Systems in Action", Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 8, 1999: 331 - 349.
• "Self-destructive processes in institution building and some modest countervailing mechanisms", European Journal of Political Research,  33(2), 1998:3-39.

Professor Giovan Francesco Lanzara’s selected publications

Professor Giovan Francesco Lanzara’s personal web page
 

Lee, Allen S (Visiting Professor)
Contact details: allenslee@alum.berkeley.edu   
Research interests: qualitative, interpretive and case research on how information technology is used in organisations; information systems implementation; electronic communications; research methodologies.

Selected Publications:

• 'Challenges to qualitative researchers in information systems', Qualitative Research in Information Systems: issues and trends (Eileen M Trauth, ed), Idea Group Publishing, 2001
• 'Rigor and relevance in MIS research: beyond the approach of positivism alone', MIS Quarterly 23(1), pp 29-33, 1999
• 'A hermeneutic interpretation of the effect of computerized BPR tools on redesign effectiveness in two organizations' (with Suprateek Sarker), New Information Technologies in Organizational Processes: field studies and theoretical reflections on the future of work (Ojelanki Ngwenyama and Janice I DeGross, eds), Kluwer Academic, Boston: pp 134-154, 1999

Professor Allen S. Lee's personal web page
 

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Mainelli, Michael (Visiting Professor)
Contact details: michael_mainelli@zyen.com   
Research interests: integrative risk/reward management; finance & technology; chaos & complexity; applied environmental, social & governance systems; choice & decision theory

Selected Publications:

• The Global Financial Centres Index - 1, (with Mark Yeandle) City of London Corporation , 2007
• "Anti-Money Laundering Requirements: Costs, Benefits and Perceptions" (with Mark Yeandle, Adrian Berendt and Brian Healy), City Research Series, Number Six, City of London Corporation , 2005
• "Betting on the Future: Online Gambling Goes Mainstream Financial" (with Sam Dibb), Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation Number 68 , 2004
• “Evidence of Worth in Not-for-Profit Sector Organisations”, (with Ian Harris and Mary O’Callaghan), Journal of Strategic Change, 11 (8) 2002

Professor Michael Mainelli’s publications
Professor Michael Mainelli’s Gresham College lectures

 

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Paul, Ray (Visiting Professor)
Contact details: ray.paul@brunel.ac.uk
Research interests: visualisation and simulation; fluid information systems; the dynamics of business processes and information systems

Selected Publications:

• 'Developing a theory to explain the insights gained concerning information systems and business process behaviour: the ASSESS-IT project' (with J Eatock and A Serrano), Information Systems Frontiers Vol 4 (3): 303-316, 2002
• 'Is information systems an intellectual subject?', European Journal of Information Systems Vol 11 (2), 174-177, 2002

• 'People, information systems and change' (with S Alshawi and AD Elliman), Cognition, Technology and Work Vol 2, No 1: 1-6, 2000

Professor Ray J Paul's personal web page

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Sommer, Peter (Visiting Professor)
Contact details: p.m.sommer@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: computer security: legal admissibility of computer-related evidence, especially in the
context of computer crime; computer misuse; white collar crime; frauds; industrial espionage

Selected Publications:

• Digital Evidence:  a Guide for Directors and Corporate Advisors,  Information Assurance Advisory Council,  September 2005. 
• "Computer aids", Fraud: law, procedure and practice, Lexis-Nexis, 2004
• "Evidence in internet paedophilia cases2, Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, 8(7): 176-184, 2002

Peter Sommer's CV

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Peter Sommer's selected publications

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