Events 2006:
Knowledge & Organization Research Seminars
Friday, April 7,
2006
Carol Saunders, Professor of MIS, University of Central Florida,
Orlando Florida,
USA
A Tale of Two Manuscripts
Professor
Carol Saunders is full professor of the Department of Management Information
Systems at the University of Central Florida, USA. Prof Saunders is
editor-in-chief of MISQ and has published in numerous academic journals. Her
research interest include organizational impacts of
IT, virtual teams and virtual workers, outsourcing, Inter-organizational
relationships, information acquisition and sharing, especially in conjunction
with group support systems.
Professor Saunders
presentation combines hints on how to publish with her current research on
supply chain integration.
Events 2005:
Thursday, November
24, 2005
Andrew Webster, University of York, UK
Understanding innovative health technologies:
where does their novelty lie?
This
presentation will provide a brief introduction to the national program
professor Webster directs on Innovative Health Technologies as this comes to
its conclusion, to give a sense of some of the key results that have been
recently published. Following on from that, he explore
the meaning of novelty in medical technologies and how this can be understood
from a sociology of science perspective.
Professor Andrew Webster is Director of the Science and Technology
Studies Unit (SATSU), University
of York and Head of
Department of Sociology. SATSU undertakes research on the
social and cultural implications of science and technology. His research interests
are in the areas of the sociology of science and technology, science policy
studies, innovative health technologies and their use, the sociology of
innovation, the commercialisation of research, and technology foresight. He is
currently undertaking externally funded research on stem cells and the
implementation of pharmacogenetics and public confidence in informatics
systems. He also has an interest in relating health technology to context of
use and the spatial setting in which this occurs, which has led to work on
ICTs, ageing and the built environment.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Samer Faraj, University of Maryland, USA
Reciprocity or Generalized Exchange?
Structuring of Electronic
Knowledge Networks
Samer Faraj is an associate professor in the
Department of Decision and Information Technologies at the University of Maryland,
College Park.
He received his doctorate in MIS from Boston
University’s School of Management
and holds an M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT. Prior to getting his
doctorate, he spent a decade working in a variety of consulting and IS
positions. His research interests include the coordination of expertise
in knowledge teams in settings such as software development and trauma care,
the development of online knowledge communities, and the impact of IT on
organizations. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Information
Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Applied
Psychology, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Strategic
Information Systems, and Information Technology& People.
He is an associate editor of Information Systems Research and serves on
the editorial board of Organization Science and Information and
Organization. In addition, he is currently co-editing the special
issue of Organization Science on IT and organizational form and
function. He has received 2 NSF and a Fulbright award.
ORGANIZATIONAL
LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE 6th International Conference, Trento (Italy), 9-11 June 2005: http://www.soc.unitn.it/olk6
2nd
International conference on communities and Technologies, 13-16 june 2005 Milano: http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/
Past events:
International
Conference on Communities and Technologies, 19-21 September 2003
Research Workshop on Social
Capital and IT
June
21 to June 24 PhD workshop on
Organizational Learning, Networks and Communities at the Vrije Universiteit..
June 24 Invited speaker Paul Duguid, University
of Berkeley.
OCIS Doctoral Consortium 2004