Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
Presented here is a selection of research from the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group.
Recent Submissions
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The Virtual University as 'Timely and Accurate Information'
(2000)This article investigates the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning System in a redbrick university in the UK. The first part is concerned with the way in which the Implementation Project Team has come to ... -
Post local forms of repair: The (extended) situation of virtualised technical support
(2009-10-01)We address the seemingly implausible project of moving the technical support of complex organisational technologies online. We say ‘implausible’ because from the point of view of micro-sociological analysis and the influential ... -
The 'self-service' student: building enterprise-wide systems into universities
(Taylor and Francis, 2003-01-01)This article investigates the take-up by universities of enterprise-wide computer systems and the development of a new module for the management and administration of students. Having its origins in Electronic Commerce, ... -
Fitting Standard Software Packages to Non-Standard Organisations: The 'Biography' of an Enterprise-Wide System
(Routledge, 2003-09-01)This paper investigates the development and implementation of a generic off-the-shelf computer package and the competing pressures for standardisation and differentiation as this package is made to fit new organisational ... -
The theory and practice of the Virtual University: working through the work of making work mobile
(Springer, 2002-12-01)What does the recent application of information communication technologies (ICTs) in higher education, and particularly the emergence of digital, online or virtual universities hold for the future shape of established, ... -
ERP Systems and the University as an 'Unique' Organisation
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2004-01-01)Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are widely used by large corporations around the world. Recently universities have turned to ERP as a means of replacing existing management and administration computer systems. ... -
Global Software and its Provenance: Generification Work in the Design of Global Software Packages
(Sage, 2007-04-01)This paper addresses the seemingly implausible project of establishing a ‘generic’ organizational information system. The is an apparent contradiction: on the one hand, we are told of the diversity of specific organizational ... -
Implications of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems for Universities: An Analysis of Benefits and Risks
(Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, 2005)Significant changes are occurring in the nature and role of the university as a consequence of developments in knowledge and ICTs and also as a broader consequence of broader social and economic transformations. ... -
Beyond The ERP Implementation Study: A New Approach To The Study Of Packaged Information Systems: The Biography Of Artifacts Framework
(2009)Scholarship addressing the social and organizational issues surrounding enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is blossoming. However, many of these studies produce unhelpful readings of the characteristics of ERP ... -
Technology choice and its performance: Towards a sociology of software package procurement
(2007-06-27)Technology Acquisition is an important but neglected issue within the social science analysis of technology. The limited number of studies undertaken reproduce a schism between rationalist (e.g., economic) forms of ... -
The Business of Expectations: How Promissory Organisations Shape Technology & Innovation
(2010)The business of technological expectations has yet to be thoroughly explored by scholars interested in the role of expectations and visions in the emergence of technological innovations. However, intermediaries specialising ... -
When is a workaround? Conflict & negotiation in computer systems development
(2005)The notion of a ‘work-around’ is a much used resource within the sociology of technology, reflecting an interest in showing how users are not simply shaped by technologies but how through adopting artefacts in ways other ... -
The Sociology of a Market Analysis Tool: How Industry Analysts Sort Vendors and Organize Markets
(2009-04-01)The information technology (IT) marketplace appears to be shaped by new kinds of specialist industry analysts that link technology supply and use through offering a commodified form of knowledge and advice. We focus on the ...
