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". at 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." Journal of Computing and Information Technology, .

Cushman, M. and L. A. Franco (2004) "Cross-Organisational Learning: Sharing Insights from Managing Major Construction Projects" in 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" in 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, L. A., 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" 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". in 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". in 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" in The sixteenth triennial conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Edinburgh, 8 - 12 July, 2002

Cushman, M., L. A. Franco and J. Rosenhead (2002) "Problem Structuring Methods for Cross-Organizational Learning" in 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". in The Third European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities, Athens, 5-6 April 2002.

Rosenhead, J., M. Cushman, J. Pratt, A. M. Pickup and E. Rowbottom (2001) "'Soft' Crime Prevention - Some UK Experience". in International Conference on OR in Development, Berg-en-Dal, Kruger National Park, South Africa, May 16-18, 2001.

Cushman, M., L. A. Franco and J. Rosenhead (2001) "Learning from Partners in the Construction Industry: A Feedback Approach to Cross-Organizational Learning". in 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". in 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" in Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development : The Social and Organizational Perspective, (Russo, N. L., B. FitzGerald and J. I. DeGross eds) Kluwer Academic, Boston, pp.467-470.

Introna, L. D., M. Cushman and H. Moore (2000) "The Virtual Organisation - Technical or Social Innovation? Lessons from the Film Industry". in 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". in 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". in 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, 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", in 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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