Faculty group research

Research initiatives

Research themes

Thematically, research in the Information Systems and Innovation Faculty Group falls in three categories:

IT-enabled innovation in and across formal organisations, including:

• Outsourcing of IT and business services (The Ousourcing Unit, Prof Leslie Willcocks)
• Systems development and implementation practice (Dr Will Venters)
• Issues of security and privacy (The Identity Project, Policy Engagement Network,Dr Edgar Whitley, Dr James Backhouse)
• Enterprise mobility (Dr Carsten Sorensen)
• History of IT in organisations (Prof Frank Land)
• Ethical issues arising from IS/IT initiatives (Prof Frank Land, Dr Shirin Madon)

Digital infrastructures, including:

• The growth of digital information and the digital content services it enables (TIGAIR, Prof Jannis Kallinikos)
• Internet-based new organisational processes
• Mobile technologies and ubiquitous information activity (mobility@lse, Dr Carsten Sorensen)
• Cloud computing and information systems as a service (Prof Leslie Willcocks, Dr Will Venters, Dr Edgar Whitley)
• Internet-enabled collaborative business activity (Prof Chrisanthi Avgerou, Prof Jannis Kallinikos)

Context specific studies aiming at middle range theory of IT innovation phenomena in well delineated domains, including:

• IT innovation in the context of developing countries (Dr Shirin Madon, Prof Chrisanthi Avgerou)
• Health care (Dr Tony Cornford, Dr Ela Klecun)
• E-government (Dr Antonio Cordella, Dr Shirin Madon)
• Financial services (Dr Susan Scott)

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