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Professor Ian Angell, PhD [i.angell@lse.ac.uk]

Department Convenor

Global consequences of IT; strategic IS; multi-media and graphics

The New Barbarian Manifesto (How to Survive the Information Age) Kogan Page 2000
Information Systems Management; Opportunities and Risks (with S. Smithson) Macmillan 1991;
"Intelligence: logical or biological", Communications of the ACM (July 1993)

Professor Chrisanthi Avgerou, PhD [c.avgerou@lse.ac.uk]

Information systems development and management; IT and organizational change; Information systems in developing countries

Information systems and the economics of innovation (co-edited with R. Lèbre LaRovere) , Edward Elgar Cheltenham 2003 ISBN 1-84376-018-5
Information Systems and Global Diversity, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002 ISBN 0-19-924077-9 and 0-19-926342-6
Information Technology in Context: studies from the perspective of developing countries (co-edited with G. Walsham) Ashgate, London 2000 ISBN 0-7546-1480-8
Developing Information Systems: Concepts, Issues and Practice (with T. Cornford) 2nd revised edition,, Macmillan, Basingstoke 1998 ISBN 0-333-73231-6

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James Backhouse, PhD [j.p.backhouse@lse.ac.uk]

Fundamental concepts of IS; responsibility and information; management of security

"Toward Public Key Infrastructure Interoperability: Lessons from an information security standard accreditation scheme." (with Carol Hsu and Aidan McDonnell) Communications of the ACM 46(6) pp 98-100. 2003
"Mexican Suspicious Transaction Reporting." (with A. Herrera-Vargas) Journal of Money Laundering Control. 2003
"Information Systems Security Education: Redressing the Balance of Theory and Practice." (with Carol Hsu) Journal of Information Systems Education 13(3). 2002

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Professor Claudio Ciborra [c.ciborra@lse.ac.uk]

Claudio Ciborra died in Milan on 13 February 2005
All the staff of the department deeply miss an insightful, rigourous and often very humerous colleague.

The relationship between technology and organizations; transaction cost theory and IS; organizational learning, bricolage and improvisation; IS infrastructures.

From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Global Information Infrastructures, (editor) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000
"Notes on Improvisation and Time in Organizations". Journal of Accounting, Management and Information Technology, Vol 9 No2 1999, pp 77-94
Teams, Markets and Systems: Business Innovation and Information Technology (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996

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Antonio Cordella, PhD [a.cordella@lse.ac.uk]

Relationships between IT and organizations, forms and behaviours; Information systems infrastructures; Actor network theory and information systems; Electronic commerce; E-government

” Infrastructure deployment: Global intent vs local adoption” (with K.Simon) in Claudio Ciborra (ed.) From Control to Drift; Oxford University Press, 2000
“Does Information technology always lead to lower transaction costs?”, Proceedings of European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2001, Bled, Slovenia
“Knowledge Production Vs Knowledge Management: The case of Pharmaceutical R&D” Proceedings of European Academy of Management 2002, Stockholm, Sweden

Tony Cornford, PhD [t.cornford@lse.ac.uk]

Alternative concepts of IS use and implementation; IT in the health domain; Sociotechnical approaches to IS; Socio-cognitive approaches to IS; Information systems in the construction industry

"Drug use information systems: a European perspective" (with C. Avgerou and E. Mossialos). Information Infrastructure and Policy, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1996, pp 205-216
"Sociotechnical Perspectives on Emergence Phenomena" (with A. Lin), in The New Sociotech: Graffiti on the Long Wall, (Springer, Godalming, 2000).
" Telehealth acquires meanings: Information and Communication technologies within health policy" (with E. Klecun-Dabrowska) in Information Systems Journal, Vol.10, No.1, 2000. pp 41-64

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Jannis Kallinikos, PhD [J.Kallinikos@lse.ac.uk]

Reader in Information Systems

Information and communication technologies and emerging organization forms; technology and social structure

"Work, Human Agency and Organization Forms: An Anatomy of Fragmentation", Organization Studies, 23(4): 595-618. 2003
"The Social Foundations of the Bureaucratic Order", Organization, 11(1) :13-36., 2004
"Deconstructing information packages", Information Technology and People, 17(1): 8-30, 2004

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Ela Klecun, PhD [e.klecun@lse.ac.uk]

Health information systems and telehealth; evaluation of information systems; sociotechnical approaches to information systems; application of critical theory in the field of information systems.

"Studying structural aspects of telehealth technology: towards a concept of consequence." (with T Cornford) Methods of Information in Medicine – special issue.
"Ethical Perspectives in Evaluation of Telehealth" (with T Cornford) Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, special issue on new information technologies in healthcare, 10(2),2001, pp161-169.
" Telehealth acquires meanings: Information and Communication technologies within health policy" (with T. Cornford) in Information Systems Journal, Vol.10, No.1, 2000. pp 41-64

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Jonathan Liebenau, PhD [j.l.liebenau@lse.ac.uk]

Information technology and economic development, telecommunications, fundamental concepts of information

"Organizational reconciliation: implications for organizational decision support systems" (with G. Harindranath) Decision Support Systems vol. 33 (4) 2002
“A new time discipline: managing virtual work environments” (with Heejin Lee) in R. Whipp. Barbara Adam, Ida Sabelis, Marking Time; Time and Management in Modern Organizations Oxford: Oxford University Press (ISDN 0199253706) 2002
“Temporal effects of information systems on business processes: focusing on the dimensions of temporality” (with Heejin Lee) Accounting, Management and Information Technology vol. 10 (3): 157-185 , 2000

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Shirin Madon, PhD [s.madon@lse.ac.uk]

IS in developing countries; IS in public administration

' ICTs and cities in the developing world: A network of flows', (with S. Sahay) Information Technology & People, 14, 3. 2001
'An information-based model of NGO-mediation for the empowerment of slum dwellers in Bangalore' (with S. Sahay)The Information Society, 18 (1). pp. 13-20. 2002
' IT Diffusion for Public Service Delivery: Looking for plausible theoretical approaches'. in Information Systems and the Economics of Innovation, (edited by C. Avgerou and R. L. La Rovere), Edward Elgar, UK .2003

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Nathalie Mitev, PhD[n.n.mitev@lse.ac.uk]

Information Technology and Organisational Change; Strategic Information Systems; Information Systems Failures; Electronic Markets; Global Distribution Systems; Computerised Reservation Systems; Air, Rail Transport and Tourism; Sociology of Technology

"More than a failure? The computerised reservation systems at French Railways." Information Technology and People, 9(4), December 1996, 8-19.
"Electronic markets in transport: comparing the globalization of air and rail computerized reservation systems", The International Journal of Electronic Commerce and Business Media Vol 9 No 4, 1999
" An empirical study of Internet usage and difficulties among medical practice management in the UK", (with Debra Howcroft), Journal of Internet Research Vol 10 No 2, 2000

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Susan V Scott, PhD [s.v.scott@lse.ac.uk]

Strategic use of information systems in financial services; risk and IT-enabled risk management; electronic trading; enterprise resource planning; transformation of work; the role of computer-based information and communication technologies in the globalisation process

‘IT-Enabled Credit Risk Modernisation: A revolution under the cloak of normality’, Accounting, Management and Information Technology Vol.10., No.3, pp:221-255. 2000
"The emergence of electronic trading in global financial markets: Envisioning the role of futures exchanges in the next millennium", (with M. Barrett). In Proceedings of the European Conference in Information Systems, Vienna, Austria July 2000
'Networks, Negotiations, and New Times: The Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning into an Academic Administration', (with E.L.Wagner) Information and Organization. Vol13 No 4, pp 285-313. 2003

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Steve Smithson, PhD [s.smithson@lse.ac.uk]

IS evaluation; interorganizational IS; e-commerce; IS management and use within organization

"Information Systems Evaluation as an Organizational Institution: Experience from a Case Study" (with Serafeimidis, V.) Information Systems Journal, Vol.13, No.3, 251-274, 2003
"Re-Constructing Information Systems Evaluation" (with Tsiavos, P.) in: Avgerou, C., Ciborra, C. & Land. (eds.) Social Study of ICT. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004
"A Sociotechnical Study of E-Business: Grappling With an Octopus" (with Clegg, C.W. et al.) Journal of E-Commerce and Organisations, 2004

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Carsten Sørensen, PhD [c.sorensen@lse.ac.uk]

Use of Internet technology; web navigation, interaction overload; interaction technology; management of knowledge; CSCW; action research; innovation diffusion theory; the craft of writing.

"Navigating the World Wide Web: Bookmark Maintenance Architectures" (with D. Macklin, and T. Beaumont). In Interacting with Computers, vol. 13. Elsevier, Holland 2000
"Surveying the World Wide Web" (with H. Fagrell). Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, vol. 11, no. 1. 1999
"The Internet Factor" (with K. Braa). Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Vol 11, No. 1. June 1999

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http://laboratorium.htu.se/ (in Swedish)

Will Venters, PhD [w.venters@lse.ac.uk]

Knowledge Management, action research, information systems development, IS development methodologies, sociotechnical approaches to information systems.

"Knowledge about Sustainability: SSM as a Method for Conceptualising the UK Construction Industry’s Knowledge Environment" (with T. Cornford and M. Cushman) Journal of Computing and Information Technology, 2004 Forthcoming.

"Motility Of Practiced Knowledge: An Exploration Within The UK Construction Industry". (with M. Cushman, and T. Cornford) in Organisational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities Conference. 2003. Barcelona, Spain.

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Edgar Whitley, PhD [e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk]

Reader in Information Systems

Philosophically and sociologically based interpretations of IS; actor network theory; stakeholder analysis; problems of tacit and explicit knowledge; use of methods in systems development; research methodology; mediated communication.

"Regulating Architecture and Architectures of Regulation: Contributions from Information Systems." (with I. Hosein and P. Tsiavos) International Review of Computing Law and Technology, Volume 17, Number 1, , pp. 85-97. 2003
"Special issue on Time and information technology: Temporal impacts on individuals, organizations, and society." (with H. Lee) The Information Society, Volume 18, Number 4, 2002.
"Studying the translations of NHSnet." *( with A. Pouloudi) Journal of End User Computing, Volume 13, Number 3, , pp. 30-40. 2001

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Leslie Willcocks, PhD [l.p.willcocks@lse.ac.uk]

Professor in Information Systems (from 1 January 2006)

Technology, work and gloablization; outsourcing; IT strategies; evaluation and management; organizational change.

(with T. Kern and E. van Heck) "The Winner's Curse in It Outsourcing: Strategies for Avoiding Relational Trauma", California Management Review, 44 (2), pp. 47-69 .2002
Social Theory And Philosophy For Information Systems (edited with J Mingers), Wiley, 2003
(with D. Feeny and M. Lacity) "Taking the Measure of Outsourcing Providers", MIT Sloan Management Review, 46 (3), pp. 41-48. 2005
(with M Lacity) Global Sourcing of Busienss and IT Services, Wiley, (forthcoming) 2006

Professor Frank Land [f.land@lse.ac.uk]

Information management, organizational change

'Evaluation in a sociotechnical context', in Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology (Bakerville, R., J., Stage, and J.I DeGross, eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp115 - 126. 2000
'The First Business Computer: A Case Study in User-Driven Innovation', IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp16-26, July-September .2000
E-business Prospects: Findings from an Expert Panel (with Clegg, C. W., Chu, C., Smithson, S., Henney, A., Willis, D., Jagodzinski, P., Hopkins, B., Icasati-Johanson, B., Fleck, S., Nicholls, J., Bennett, S., Land, F., Peltu, M., and Patterson, M.) Department of Trade and Industry: London, 2002

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Professor Bob Galliers, PhD [r.d.galliers@lse.ac.uk]

Information Technology and business innovation; business transformation and the management of change; information systems strategy; strategy alignment; knowledge management; intra- and extra-organisational impacts of the WWW.

'Implementing enterprise resource planning and knowledge management systems in tandem: fostering efficiency and innovation complementarity' (with S Newell, J C Huang, & S L Pan), Information & Organization, 13, 25-52. 2003
'Dangerous Liasons? Component-based development and organizational subcultures', (with J C Huang, S Newell, & S L Pan) IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 50(1), 89-99. 2003
'A discipline divided: globalization and parochialism in Information Systems research', Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 11, 108-117. 2003

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Professor Ole Hanseth PhD [o.hanseth@lse.ac.uk]

Infrastructures ; standardization ; actor networks

"Gateways - just as important as standards. How the Internet won the “religious war” about standards in Scandinavia". 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" (with O Henfridsson and H. Holmström). In the Proceedings of IFIP WG 8.2: Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: The Social and Organizational Perspective. N. L. Russo, B. Fitzgerald and J. I. 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.

ProfessorRay Paul PhD [r.paul@lse.ac.uk]

Visualization and simulation; Fluid information systems; The dynamics of business processes and information systems

"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 A.D. Elliman) Cognition, Technology and Work. Vol. 2, No 1: 1-6. 2000

Mike Cushman [m.cushman@lse.ac.uk]

Research Fellow (Penceil)/Information Manager

ICTs and social exclusion; e-literacy; organizational knowledge and learning; inter-organizational knowledge and learning; problem structuring methods

"Planning in the Face of Politics: Reshaping Children's Health Services in Inner London" (with J. Rosenhead) 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. 2004
"Project Review and Learning in the Construction Industry: Embedding a Problem Structuring Method within a Partnership Context" (with A. Franco and J. Rosenhead), European Journal of Operational Research 152 (3), pp. 586-601 . 2003
"Infrastructures for Construction Collaboration: The Cross Organisational Learning Approach" (with T. Cornford)International Journal of IT in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, 1 (1) pp 67-78 2003

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Mary Darking PhD [m.l.darking@lse.ac.uk]

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Digital Business Ecosystem)

Technology infrastructure and social values; knowledge, education and organisational form; on-line learning and knowledge platform development; managed and virtual learning environments

"Integrating pedagogical technologies into UK Higher Education: Conceptual Foundations" In the proceedings of the Xth European Conference on Information Systems, Gdansk, Poland. Vol. 2, pp. 1430-1438, 2002.
2What is it like to do an Information Systems PhD in Europe? Diversity in the practice of IS research" (with Whitley Edgar A., Sandra Sieber, Cristina Cáliz, Chiara Frigerio, Edoardo Jacucci, Anna Nöteberg and Michael Rill) Communications of the AIS 13,317-335, 2004

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Gus Hosein PhD [i.hosein@lse.ac.uk]

Visiting Fellow

Technology and civil liberties, privacy, and anti-terrorism policies

"The Sources of Laws: Policy Dynamics in a Digital and Terrorized World" The Information Society, vol. 20 no 3, 2004
"The hazards of technology-neutral policy: questioning lawful access to traffic data" (with Escudero-Pascual Alberto) The Communications of the ACM, vol.47 no 3, 77-82. 2004
"Regulating Architecture and Architectures of Regulation: Contributions from
Information Systems" (with Prodromos Tsiavos and Edgar A. Whitley) International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 17(1), 85-97 2003

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Peter Sommer[p.m.sommer@lse.ac.uk]

Visiting Fellow

Computer security: legal admissibility of computer related evidence, especially in the context of computer crime; computer misuse; white collar crime; frauds; industrial espionage

"Evidence in Internet Paedophilia Cases" Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Vol 8 Issue 7, pp 176-184, 2002
" The future for the Policing of Cybercrime" Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin, pp 8-12 , January 2004
"Computer Aids" in Fraud: Law, Procedure and Practice, Lexis-Nexis, 2004

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