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ERP non-implementation : a case study of a UK furniture manufacturer (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Dawson, J., & Owens, J. D. (2007, June). ERP non-implementation : a case study of a UK furniture manufacturer. Presented at Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems., Madeira, Portugal

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are pervasive information systems that have been fundamental in organisations for the past two decades. ERP systems may well count as the most important development in technology in the 1990s’. There are m... Read More about ERP non-implementation : a case study of a UK furniture manufacturer.

Personal development planning: friend or foe in higher education? (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Burke, M. (2007, January). Personal development planning: friend or foe in higher education?. Presented at 15th International BOBCATSSS Symposium: 'Marketing of Information Services', Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Teaching the evaluation of web usability (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Procter, C. (2006, June). Teaching the evaluation of web usability. Presented at Informing Science and IT Education Joint Conference, Salford

This paper describes the design and use of a simple method for comparative website evaluation that has been used for the purposes of teaching web design to University students. The method can be learnt within two hours by a novice user or typical cu... Read More about Teaching the evaluation of web usability.

Tourism after the ‘Tulip’ Revolution : Akayev’s bitter legacy and the prospects for the Kyrgyz Republic (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Schofield, P., Maccarrone-Eaglen, A., & Yesiltas, M. (2006, June). Tourism after the ‘Tulip’ Revolution : Akayev’s bitter legacy and the prospects for the Kyrgyz Republic. Presented at Tourism in Asia : New Trends, New Perspectives, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Kyrgyzstan’s post-colonial transition from socialism to democratic civil society has been constrained by a number of adverse and interrelated political, economic and social factors. In the early 1990s, the Republic strategically positioned itself as... Read More about Tourism after the ‘Tulip’ Revolution : Akayev’s bitter legacy and the prospects for the Kyrgyz Republic.

Operationalising business-level generic strategies (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Ghobadian, A., Nandakumar, M., & O'Regan, N. (2006, January). Operationalising business-level generic strategies. Presented at British Academy of Management Conference, Belfast, United Kingdom

Peer-to-peer communication between students to facilitate placements (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Keegan, H., & Procter, C. (2006, January). Peer-to-peer communication between students to facilitate placements. Presented at ASET Annual Placement and Employability Professionals' Conference

This paper explores the use of a discussion board to facilitate discussion between students on placement and seeking placements. Evidence is presented that this peer to peer communication can alleviate some of the obstacles to students either seekin... Read More about Peer-to-peer communication between students to facilitate placements.

Sex tourism and chaos : a complex system approach (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Eaglen, A., & Maccarrone-Eaglen, A. (2005, December). Sex tourism and chaos : a complex system approach. Presented at Second PolyU China Tourism Forum, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Sex tourism has been associated with human trafficking (sex slavery), violence, child sexual exploitation and the transmission of HIV/AIDS. Though marginalised, sex tourism is globally pervasive, embracing multiple stakeholders and contextualised wit... Read More about Sex tourism and chaos : a complex system approach.

An insight into the product culture as a commodity for tourism, with the British National Tourist Organisation perspective (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Maccarrone-Eaglen, A. (2005, October). An insight into the product culture as a commodity for tourism, with the British National Tourist Organisation perspective. Presented at Recent Developments in Tourism Research, Faculty of Economics, University of Algarve, Faro

The complexity of the notion of culture has been the object of multidisciplinary studies attempting, with difficulties, to attribute definitions, boundaries and classifications to this polyhedric concept expressed in symbolic representations. Culture... Read More about An insight into the product culture as a commodity for tourism, with the British National Tourist Organisation perspective.

Tricks or trompe l'oeil?: An examination [of] workplace resistance in an information rich managerial environment (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Sobreperez, P., Ferneley, E., & Wilson, F. (2005, May). Tricks or trompe l'oeil?: An examination [of] workplace resistance in an information rich managerial environment. Presented at Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, Regensburg, Germany

Management information generated by workflow information systems is often used for planning, costing, decision making and other management activities. By application of the principles of Grounded Theory, this paper summarises studies of acceptance of... Read More about Tricks or trompe l'oeil?: An examination [of] workplace resistance in an information rich managerial environment.

Information fulfillment in organisation: reflections on structures and solutions (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Burke, M. (2005, May). Information fulfillment in organisation: reflections on structures and solutions. Presented at Sixteenth Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference: Managing Modern Organizations with Information Technology, San Diego, California, USA

E business : knowledge transfer from Higher Educational Institutions to industry (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Owens, J. D., & McManus, J. (2004, October). E business : knowledge transfer from Higher Educational Institutions to industry. Presented at International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Knowledge Transfer is fast becoming a commercial necessity for many industries, in order that they may effectively manage their intellectual assets and gain competitive advantage. Subsequently, to be able to maximise that advantage, knowledge manage... Read More about E business : knowledge transfer from Higher Educational Institutions to industry.

User preference and performance with UML interaction diagrams (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Kutar, M., Britton, C., Swann, J., & Barker, T. (2004, September). User preference and performance with UML interaction diagrams. Presented at Proceedings of IEEE 2004 Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VLHCC’04), Rome, Italy

Collaboration across border: benefits and pitfalls of an international collaborative project (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Zaitseva, E., Shaylor, J., & Whatley, J. (2004, September). Collaboration across border: benefits and pitfalls of an international collaborative project. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford

International educational collaboration, facilitated by web-based means, has important benefits in higher education. The CAB project is aimed at designing, experimenting and evaluating ways of introducing collaboration into the educational practice o... Read More about Collaboration across border: benefits and pitfalls of an international collaborative project.

Reflections on the use of blended learning (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Heinze, A., & Procter, C. (2004, September). Reflections on the use of blended learning. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

This paper reflects upon the experience of the delivery of a program at the University of Salford using blended learning. Facilitated by action research, it reports on the lessons learnt since the paper by Procter “Blended Learning in Practice”(Proct... Read More about Reflections on the use of blended learning.

Management information or trompe l'oeil (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Sobreperez, P., Ferneley, E., & Wilson, F. (2004, September). Management information or trompe l'oeil. Presented at Pacific Conference on Information Systems, Shanghai

Management information generated by workflow information systems is often used for planning, costing, decision making and other management activities. By application of the principles of Grounded Theory, this paper summarises studies of acceptance of... Read More about Management information or trompe l'oeil.

Relations between organisational design and information processing systems: a passionate affair or a stormy interlude? (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Burke, M. (2004, June). Relations between organisational design and information processing systems: a passionate affair or a stormy interlude?. Presented at Twelfth European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2004): the European IS Profession in the Global Networking Environment, Turku, Finland

This paper considers the issues surrounding the fit between information systems and organization structures. The paper uses philosophical ideas concerning knowledge and applies them to organizational design and information processing in order to en... Read More about Relations between organisational design and information processing systems: a passionate affair or a stormy interlude?.

A case study on developing the graduate teaching assistant role in higher education (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Procter, C., Spedding, P., & Mcisaac, J. (2004, January). A case study on developing the graduate teaching assistant role in higher education. Presented at Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), Bristol

Universities are developing their use of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in a haphazard and sometimes exploitative way. This paper discusses relevant literature and examples of practice from Universities in the UK. It goes on to describe the dev... Read More about A case study on developing the graduate teaching assistant role in higher education.